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Cleanliness is next to godliness

21-May-07
A post by Mark Russell over at Korea Pop Wars about a particular piece of junk mail he got recently - the first issue of Toilet World - prompts me to link to two other toilet-related articles which I've had in my inbox for a while. Links: Korea Poop Wars - Mark Russell at Korea Pop Wars, 18 May 2007 South Korean Leads Restroom Revolution - Burt Herman at Associated Press, 17 Nov 2006. The article is reproduced in its entirety on page 11 of Toilet World #1 Toilet cleaning craze hits Japan - a Reuters story from 1 March 2007 Toilet World #1 - March 2007, at the World Toilet Association website Update 17 July 2007 - a new story: Toilet cash mystery grips Japan ...
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If you’re going to trash a film in a British newspaper…

20-Jun-06
... the least you can do is use British English. Mark Kermode's strange review in the Observer of Fruit Chan's full-length version of Dumplings reveals a prissiness that I don't expect of a reviewer. Cat III sleaze it is not. His comment raises the question of whether he has ever watched any Cat III sleaze. Yeuk saat? Hua jie kuang ben? (My guilty secrets are coming out here.) There's probably worse. I can remember nothing as objectionable in Dumplings when I saw it a year or so ago (why does it take so long for films to make it over here by the way?). But this is off-topic. Part of Kermode's objection to the film is the company it keeps. The shorter ...
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