Ninjas!

[GeneChing]

Note that these won't qualify you for NinjaStar 2010. These will, and they are a lot cheaper, but not as nice.

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* $109.99

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Full-length front chest zip
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Circumferential waist zip for ultra-easy #2 access
Thumb loops at wrist cuff to seal out snow

[GeneChing]

We should add that if you get busted, you are DQed from KungFuMagazine.com's NINJA STAR 2010.

Jewelry heist: Teen tied to home invasion is 'ninja' suspect
Geoff Grammer | The New Mexican
Posted: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 10/14/10

Santa Fe police believe they've unmasked the "ninja bandit" who may have used a hatchet to burglarize a downtown jewelry store last month.

And the 17-year-old boy they are seeking in the heist has a violent past.

Santa Fe Police Sgt. Louis Carlos confirmed Wednesday that Shalom Katz "is a suspect in the Sept. 20 armed burglary of the (Dell Fox) jewelry store," and a warrant for his arrest has been issued. Attempts to locate Katz through known friends and family had not yet led to his arrest as of Wednesday night, according to police.

Dell Fox, owner of the jewelry store, said Wednesday that she was "absolutely terrified" on Sept. 20 when a man dressed like a ninja — police reports indicate he wore dark clothing, black gloves, a hood and a dark mask with one opening for his eyes — walked into her store, made eye contact, walked to a display case and swung a hatchet over his head, shattering open the quarter-inch thick glass.

"He reached in — he had black biker-like gloves — and just started taking the jewelry," Fox said. "Then he ran out. It was just terrifying, is all I can say."

More than $4,000 worth of merchandise was reported stolen.

Two search warrant affidavits filed Wednesday in state District Court indicate that during the investigation, a Santa Fe police detective recalled a 2008 interview in which Katz "voluntarily stated he would hang out in the downtown area of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and referenced being a ninja or acting like a ninja."

The Katz interview referenced in the search warrant was connected with a home invasion in which Katz, then 14, and three men — all wearing ski masks and one wielding a baseball bat — broke into a home in the South Capitol neighborhood and attacked a group of people on Dec. 29, 2007.

Two victims of that burglary were left seriously injured but survived.

Katz pleaded no contest to aggravated burglary, two counts of armed robbery and conspiracy. He was given a two-year commitment to the state's Children, Youth and Families Department, but that sentence was suspended and Katz was allowed in June 2008 to enter the Sequoyah Adolescent Treatment Center in Albuquerque.

"You don't have any more options," state District Judge Michael Vigil told the 14-year-old at the 2008 sentencing. "If you don't get your act together, you will be locked up until your 21st birthday. ... I will lock you up so quick."

One victim's father, Bob Ortega, pleaded with the court that day to handle Katz's case as an adult and send him to prison.

When reached Wednesday night and told of the new allegations, Ortega said the news was disturbing but not surprising.

"I'll say again today what I said when he was sentenced," Ortega said Wednesday. "They need to sentence him as an adult. He should have been treated as an adult back then, and this community would be safer."

Katz's juvenile court records show at least two allegations from prosecutors of probation violations since February. The search warrant filed in the jewelry heist case states Katz "was arrested for shoplifting a hatchet and other items March 17, 2010, from the Sears store located at 4250 Cerrillos Road."

Court record show two homes — the Katz residence in the 500 block of Franklin Avenue and the home of a friend police believed Katz may have been staying with — show investigators retrieved two hatchets, a black hooded cloth, dark clothing, several pairs of shoes, two cellular telephones and other items.

No jewelry was found.

Police ask anyone with information on Katz's whereabouts to call Detective Robert Vasquez at 955-5038.

[GeneChing]

Ninjas are hard to catch. They need to hire another ninja to track him down.

'Ninja' suspect linked to other crimes
Police link teen to auto burglary, investigate possible tie to Nike heist
Geoff Grammer | The New Mexican
Posted: Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 10/15/10

Shalom Katz, the teenager with a lengthy juvenile criminal record who police say dressed like a ninja and used a hatchet to rob a downtown jewelry store continues to evade authorities.

Now police are saying Katz, 17, is also responsible for at least one auto burglary six days after the jewelry store heist and are investigating whether he was involved in a pair of burglaries at the Nike factory outlet store in southwest Santa Fe, one of which also involved use of a hatchet.

Two warrants for his arrest — one for armed robbery and one for burglary — have been issued.

Santa Fe police Sgt. Louis Carlos said Katz is the suspect in a Sept. 26 auto burglary in the 200 block of East Palace Avenue in which a purse and a $95,000 diamond ring were stolen. On Sept. 27, according to police reports, a woman went to Cathedral Park to buy unspecified drugs and was told to ask for a boy named Shalom. The woman gave him $100 and he said he would go get the drugs. As collateral to ensure he would return, the teen gave the woman a ring with a stone missing.

Police say the teen never returned so the woman pawned the ring at Pawn City, 3668 Cerrillos Road. Santa Fe police Sgt. Peter Neal recovered the ring and confirmed it was the one stolen on Sept. 26, but was missing a three-carat diamond.

At age 14, Katz pleaded no contest to aggravated burglary, two counts of armed robbery and conspiracy in connection with a December 2007 home invasion that left two victims severely injured after being beaten with a baseball bat.

Since being released from a treatment facility in Albuquerque where he was sentenced in 2008, police say Katz has violated his probation several times and was caught in March trying to shoplift a hatchet from Sears, 4250 Cerrillos Road.

Katz has been back in front of a state district judge at least four times since February and in each instance, his father, Asher Katz, has been by his son's side trying to work with him and law enforcement.

While Asher Katz said by telephone Thursday he had no comment on his son's current cases, Santa Fe police Sgt. Louis Carlos said the father has been helpful in the investigation.

Police have confirmed that Asher Katz has said he would like for his son to live in Israel, but they have no reason to believe the teen has left Santa Fe.

In the Sept. 20 jewelry store heist at Dell Fox, witnesses say a man dressed in dark clothing and a ninja-like black mask with an eye slit used a hatchet to shatter a display case and stole $4,000 of jewelry.

Based on that crime, police are also investigating whether Katz had any involvement in a pair of recent burglaries of the Nike Factory Store, 8380 Cerrillos Road.

In the Aug. 21 burglary, video surveillance shows a man using what appears to be a hatchet to break open the glass front door of the business before he and another man run inside, grab apparel and flee. The store was also hit Oct. 3 in a similar fashion.

Search warrants on two homes this week in connection with the Dell Fox robbery have netted cell phones, dark clothing, two hatchets and a black-hooded cloth, according to court documents. No jewelry has been recovered.

Police ask anyone with information on Katz's whereabouts to call 428-3710 or contact Det. Robert Vasquez directly at 955-5038.

[GeneChing]

Obviously not a real ninja.

Sunday, October 17, 2010
'Ninja' Robbery Suspect Captured in Los Alamos
Journal Staff Report

Santa Fe's most-wanted "ninja" was captured Saturday — in Los Alamos.
Los Alamos Police arrested Shalom Katz, 17, about 2:30 p.m. after an anonymous tip led them to a house where they encountered Katz in the front yard, according to a news release.
Katz, who is the main suspect in a broad-daylight jewelry store heist in Santa Fe last month, gave police a false name at first. But officers "were able to confirm his true identity and arrested him," the news release said.
Katz was booked on concealing identity charges and turned over to Santa Fe police. He is being held in Santa Fe County juvenile detention facility on robbery and burglary charges.
Santa Fe Police Capt. Gerald Rivera declined to comment Saturday on the circumstances of Katz's arrest in Los Alamos or on what Katz might have been doing there. "That's something the detectives will want to look into," Rivera said.
Santa Fe police issued a warrant for Katz's arrest in the Sept. 20 jewelry store robbery on Wednesday. But Katz, who was visiting a state Juvenile Probation and Parole office that day, managed to leave before police arrived.
Katz apparently went back to his parents' home in Santa Fe early Thursday morning. The parents called police, but Katz ran before the cops arrived.
Also on Thursday, police issued another warrant for Katz's arrest, this time for his alleged involvement in the theft of an expensive ring during a vehicle break-in.
During the September robbery at Dell Fox Jewelry in Sanbusco Center, Katz was dressed in black clothing and wore a black hood. He also wielded an axe, which he used to shatter a large glass display case.
Katz fled the store with about $3,800 in jewelry. But a week earlier, police said, Katz also was involved in a vehicle break-in, where he allegedly stole purses and jewelry, including a diamond ring worth about $96,000.
Katz was also involved in a home invasion in late 2007 in which several people were beaten severely. Katz and three others forced their way into the home and some of the invaders, armed with baseball bats, beat and robbed two people.
Detectives in that case recalled that Katz had talked about "being a ninja or acting like a ninja."
Prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed that there was no evidence that Katz was armed with a bat or that he beat anyone during the incident. He pleaded no contest to armed robbery, burglary and conspiracy charges and was sent to a secure mental health facility in Albuquerque in mid-2008.
He was later released on probation. Katz was at the juvenile probation office Wednesday in connection with several probation violations, including the Dell Fox robbery and a shoplifting incident in March, where he allegedly stole the axe used in the jewelry store theft.
Police also believe he was responsible for a residential jewelry theft in June 2008, shortly before he was sentenced in connection with the home invasion incident.

[GeneChing]

I suppose this could go in the media forum, but we're plugging ninjas this month in honor of ninjastar.

Fantastic Review: Norwegian Ninja
Fantastic Fest By Adam Charles on October 15, 2010



In the midst of the Cold War a Norwegian diplomat, Arne Treholt, was convicted of treason against his country for selling secrets to the Soviet Union in the early ’80s. This is true. Not necessarily that he sold secrets as his conviction and twenty year prison term suggests, but just that he was convicted.

In 1992, after serving 8 years of his prison term, Treholt was released and to this day continues to plead his innocence regarding any treasonous activity. This is true.

In 2010, Norwegian filmmaker Thomas Malling made a film depicting the events precisely as they played out back in the 1980s in which Treholt was in fact the leader of a professionally trained black-ops group of ultra-human ninjas. This is true. Not necessarily that Treholt was a ninja mastermind, just that Malling made a film about Treholt being one.

‘Ninja’ is about as entertaining as you could imagine a Cold War film about a secret task force of supreme blond-haired ninjas being. Treholt isn’t just a ninja in the sense that he’s trained in stealth and assassination techniques. No, he’s a ninja in the sense that he can appear out of thin air and fully clothe a naked man simply by throwing them on him. Ninjas don’t have to conform to the rules of one leg at a time like the rest of us.

Much of the success of the film comes in the exaggerations of ninja ability and it uses almost every single fantastic element of the pop culture perception of what ninjas were actually able to do back in the 1980s when Sho Kosugi was killing ninjas. Because only a ninja can kill a ninja.

The storyline gets convoluted with a lot of names flying around all over the place with difficulty in stamping them onto a face (after all, all white people look alike), but, not intending to defend this shortcoming, when the film wants to be fun it is despite our losing track of who’s who and what they mean, if anything, to the story as a whole. It’s too forgiving to just say “who cares what he means to the story? He just knocked a guy over by rearranging furniture!” But it really does just about reach that point of accepting its confusing plot because it’s just fun to watch what components of ninjitsu mythology they’ll amplify next.

Norwegian Ninja is, in ways, the film that The Men Who Stare at Goats attempted to be; primary difference being that the events in ‘Goats’, though outlandish, aren’t as far from the truth as one would think whereas Norwegian Ninja has its self-awareness and parody stapled to its sleeve. The men aren’t just ninjas, they’re the fantasy versions that can transport elsewhere instantaneously in a cloud of smoke, repel unwanted forces away from their camp via the secret art of out-of-balance feng shui and even have a glowing light of enlightenment accompany their achievement of enlightenment as if they were Bruce Leroy realizing he is the one and only master. Simply put, none of the events depicted as fantastic actually happened nor are they anywhere near the truth; despite not actually knowing what the truth is this certainly is not it. Though, what’s the harm in taking a particularly ridiculous situation and making it more so for the sake of entertainment?

[GeneChing]

The bad ninja was really bad - I posted that on the Busted Martial Artists thread.

The good ninja, well, we all remember that famous nipple shuriken during the wardrobe malfunction. Shurikens never got so much attention before.

Janet Jackson looks like a ninja-style air hostess at For Colored Girls premiere
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:25 PM on 26th October 2010

Janet Jackson is certainly known for one infamous wardrobe malfunction in particular, but it seems she's still partial to the occasional fashion mishap.

Attending the New York premiere for her new film For Coloured Girls, fans didn't know whether the pop superstar should be showing them the exits or branding a samurai sword in her quirky Haider Ackermann outfit.

The sister of musical icon Michael Jackson looked beautiful as ever though, as she was accompanied by her nephew Austin Brown - who looks the spitting image of her late brother in his younger years.

NinjaStar. Enter now.

[GeneChing]

Wait...so this guy's name is Ninja Hassan?

Carver Heights murder suspect arrested in California
Posted: October 27, 2010 - 12:18am | Updated: October 27, 2010 - 12:10pm
By Savannah Morning News

A man sought for nearly a year as a suspect in a Nov. 7 Carver Heights homicide was brought into custody Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to Savannah-Chatham police.

Ninja Hassan Wheeler was announced as a suspect three days after 44-year-old Steven Green was found fatally shot in a rental property he managed on the 1000 block of Stokes Street. Metro police detectives believe Green, who manages the property, was showing the bright yellow bungalow to Lakeya Jenkins. Wheeler lurked in a back bedroom of the home as Jenkins convinced Green she was interested in renting. And when Wheeler got the chance, he emerged with a gun in his hand and a bandana over his face, said Gena Moore, metro police spokeswoman.

Jenkins told investigators Wheeler fired two rounds at Green - once shortly after he came out of the bedroom and another as he fell to the ground. Jenkins also told investigators she and Wheeler rifled through Green's pockets and ran from the home. A red bandana remained at the scene, Moore said.

Last month, a Chatham County grand jury indicted Jenkins on charges that include murder and armed robbery. Wheeler was thought to have fled to family in his hometown of Trenton, N.J., but later was located in Los Angeles.

News of Green's death rocked his close-knit family and the area's community of recovering addicts. He had achieved 13 years of sobriety from cocaine and was a role model to others looking to get clean, family members had said.

Green walked with a cane after he was shot during a soured business deal in 2003 near the intersection of Duffy Street and Atlantic Avenue. The cane also was found resting next to his lifeless body in the Carver Heights home, Moore said.

[GeneChing]

One more week to enter NINJASTAR 2010!

Ninja Sex Party Shakes Up Toronto SketchFest
By: MIRIAM CROSS
Published: November 3rd 2010 in Culture » Stage

Ninja Sex Party
Pic: courtesy of Ninja Sex Party

Danny Sexbang is handsome, musical and the self-proclaimed great Jewish lover of the 21st century. Ninja Brian is a mute, masked pianist whose religious status is “murky at best.” Together they make the New Jersey-based sketch comedy duo Ninja Sex Party, whose musical videos have amassed a following on websites such as CollegeHumor, Funny or Die and Dailymotion.

The pair is visiting Toronto this week to perform in the sixth annual Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. Shalom Life caught up with Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht, the brains behind the troupe, to talk ninjas, music videos and why they can’t wait to sell out.

How did Ninja Sex Party get started?

Brian Wecht (BW): It was basically a random connection through friends of friends. Dan had the idea for the name.

Dan Avidan (DA): I was looking for a piano player who wouldn’t mind dressing up like a ninja and Brian was the first person who tried out, and it was just kind of perfect.

BW: I think ‘tried out’ is a little…I showed up. I showed up, and he was like ‘cool.’

DA: And then we just started writing songs together.

Why focus on music videos instead of a more ‘traditional’ form of sketch comedy?

BW: Because we’re both musicians and both comedians, and we wanted to do something that was musical comedy.

DA: It’s important to stand out, and we figured these are two things that we can do well, so why not combine them instead of fighting to just do one? And a lot of the comedy we love, like Flight of the Conchords and Tenacious D, is musical comedy, so we’ve always been inspired by those guys.

How would you sum up the philosophy behind Ninja Sex Party?

BW: Oh my God. So much more thought than what’s ever been put into this before.

DA: I think we entertain the body and soul. Through the art of magical songery.

BW: Yeah, I’d say we’re two guys in Spandex who hop around for your amusement.

DA: That too.

Why ninjas?

BW: Why not ninjas? Just one of the coolest things we could think of.

DA: Yeah, the genesis of the name was just – we thought – what are everyone’s three favourite things? Ninjas, sex and parties. The concept actually grew from that.

You often bring Jewish references into your videos. How important is Jewish humour to your act?

DA: It’s part of who we are, you know. My dad’s from Tel Aviv and it’s so much funnier when you write what you know. We don’t want to overdo it, because we don’t want people to get the wrong idea that we’re making fun of Judaism or it’s something that we joke about. But we like to incorporate who we are as people into the humour, just because it feels more natural.

BW: And there are so many great things associated with Judaism – great words, great concepts or whatever – that I think we find a natural place for them in our comedy.

What is it that makes Jews so funny?

BW: [Laughs hard] Why don’t we just ask why the sky is blue? It’s one of those cosmic mysteries which we may never truly understand, but we can only enjoy. I actually got a little teary-eyed. I wish you could see that over the phone.

DA: I think it’s because we’ve had a long time to practice. I mean, we’ve been around a lot longer than Christians. They haven’t had as much time to hone their comedy skills.

BW: And I guess when you go through bad times – not that Jews have ever gone through difficult times – laughter is a big part of that. I’m sure cultures that deal with a lot of difficulty find comfort in humour. [Pauses] That’s probably the heavier answer.

What can audiences look forward to for your performances at SketchFest in Toronto?

BW: They can look forward to the most intense musical comedy experience of their entire lives.

DA: They will come out of a Ninja Sex Party show changed in fundamental ways that they might not like, but we hope they will.

What’s next after the Sketch Festival?

BW: We’re going to keep shooting a bunch of videos. And we’re looking forward to releasing some shorter, non-music videos as well.

DA: And down the line, working on a TV pilot and a movie script, just seeing where we can take this.

So in addition to the music, do you want to do more straightforward sketch comedy?

BW: I don’t think we want to do just straightforward sketch comedy. I think the music will always be important to what we do. But we’re not going to shy away from doing non-musical stuff. Whatever makes us the most money, frankly. [Laughs]

DA: We can’t wait to sell out.

How do you make money off sketch comedy?

BW: That’s a great question. If we knew the answer to that, we would be doing it already.

DA: I think the answer is probably in television. We recently acquired management, and that’s where they’ve been guiding us. At this point we’re still concentrating on the artistic side of it, and the money will come. You have to believe that. There’s a Willy Nelson quote that goes ‘Do your work and the world will beat a path to your door.’ And you sort of just have to believe that as an artist, you’ll be rewarded for loving what you do and trying your best.

BW: Of course, Willy Nelson is notoriously terrible at managing his money.

DA: But taking that quote out of context, yeah.

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival runs until Nov. 6 at various downtown locations. Ninja Sex Party performs Nov. 5 and Nov. 6 at the Comedy Bar. For more information about the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, visit www.torontosketchfest.com. For more information about Ninja Sex Party, visit www.ninjasexparty.com.

[GeneChing]

click the link to reference the vids.

* 11/4/10 at 5:00 PM
An Ode to Softhearted Matt Lauer’s Secret Ninja Side

Photo: iStockphoto, Larry Marano/Getty Images

Oh, Matt Lauer. How you've grown from the man who visibly gulped and forced yourself to press on when you had to ask Hillary Clinton about Monica Lewinsky for the first time back in 1998. Now you are truly one of the most entertaining interviewers of our era. Most of the time, you have a soft touch, which is why someone like Sandra Bullock rushes to you when they have to face the press after their husband cheated on them by having sex with a human tattoo on a dirty garage floor. Or why someone like Elizabeth Edwards selected you when she wanted to promote her book about how her husband cheated on her with a human helium balloon while she had cancer.

This is all well and good, and plays to the interests of the Today show's largely female morning audience. But Matt Lauer has another side, a far more wickedly fun aspect to his interviewing style, that only comes out every so often — like when he reportedly pinned down George Bush earlier this week. And this, his secret ninja side, is why we truly love Matt Lauer. Remember not long ago when he took on former gubernatorial candidate and current ****phobic moron Carl Paladino? From minute one of the interview, he called the mumbling and nonsensical Paladino out for his statement that ****sexuality wasn't a "valid or successful option," and accused him of fostering discrimination with his comments. Shadow kick!

And then, who could forget the time not long ago when Lauer went toe-to-toe with momager Dina Lohan? The woman couldn't even answer one of the simple questions he asked in a straightforward manner. She didn't even know how many times her own daughter has been in rehab, for instance. She even boasted about how Lindsay had become friends with "alleged murderers"! But the money moment came when Matt asked, "You don't think [Lindsay] deserves time in jail?" And Dina replied: "Well, not for this particular offense." Hadouken!

Oh, plus there was that time that he nailed Karl Rove repeatedly for glossing over inconsistencies in the reporting of WMDs in Iraq in the buildup to the war, reading account after account of how top experts thought there was no such thing, and how Bush had made up his mind to go to war anyway. Dragon Punch!

And perhaps best of all was the time when Lauer called Tom Cruise to the mat (oy) over his comments that Brooke Shields was "misguided" for taking Paxil to overcome postpartum depression. Cruise was weirdly, demonically chipper (as his semi-dazed new wife, Katie Holmes, looked on) as he talked about the plague of public attention in his life, and then the interview descended into the truly weird. (The whole video is uncomfortable-making, but for the real fight scroll ahead to eight minutes in.) When Lauer tries to nail Cruise down on whether postpartum depression is "psychological gobbledygook," the actor goes into full-on Scientology crazy mode, lashing out and calling Lauer glib and saying that vitamins and exercise can cure everything. "Why is taking anti-depressants wrong if it worked for Brooke Shields?" asked the doe-eyed anchor. Snappeth Tom, "Because I disagree with it!" Ice Freeze!

Now, Matt has caught flack at times for not using these ninja styles frequently enough, like when he apologetically softballed Larry Craig and let sister-network stars the Salahis off the hook. But if news reports are to believed, we are going to see another such sneak attack from Lauer on George W. Bush on Monday when he appears in an NBC interview special with the anchor. In the interview, Lauer asks Bush about a statement in his book Decision Points in which he says that Kanye West saying "George Bush doesn't care about black people" was the worst moment of his presidency. Though the former president tries to cut him off, Lauer manages to ask: "You're not saying that the worst moment in your presidency was watching the misery in Louisiana. You're saying it was when someone insulted you because of that??" Fatalityyyyy!

NINJASTAR closes this Wednesday (11/10/2010)

[GeneChing]

You must click the link.

Wheelchair ninja takes out would-be store robber


A word to the wise, or rather the stupid people who think robbing convenience store is a great way to pass the time – don’t slough off that dude in a wheelchair, it may be the biggest mistake you could make.

Such is the case of some doofus who decided to rob a store in Vancouver after they turned down his suspicious looking $50 bill. This is where Epic Wheelchair Man – Larry Skopnik – comes in, literally and takes the robber down.

BTW, Today is the last day to enter NINJASTAR.

[GeneChing]

...cuz we could have got the whole community in on it.

Danny Pudi 'wants ninja-themed Community'
Wednesday, November 10 2010, 11:36am EST
By Catriona Wightman, TV Reporter


Danny Pudi has joked that he wants Community to feature an episode based on ninjas.

Speaking to The AV Club, Pudi explained that the show has already had "wonderful" themes.

"I've always been, as a little kid, just a huge fan of ninja movies, like karate and stuff," he said. "American Ninja would be great. Anything with a Bruce Lee-type thing. I'd love to play Bruce Lee. I think that'd be kind of fun, if we were all ninjas."

Pudi also revealed that he would love an episode of the show to pay tribute to Westerns.

"That'd be really dope," he said. "I was a huge fan of Deadwood, and I'm always a fan of period pieces, especially, I think, maybe I'm a fan even more as a minority actor or someone of color. It's like, 'Oh, Rome. Eh, you're not going to see me on that series'. Or Deadwood. You're probably not going to see me on that series, you know?

"But within the context of Greendale, that could happen. So that'd be kind of cool. I don't know, Greendale goes to some old mining town in South Dakota? We all strike it rich?"

However, Pudi admitted that he doesn't like to know "too much" about the show, saying: "I like to keep things surprising because in many ways, it's kind of like life. You can prepare all you want, but once the moment comes, I think it's a lot more fun when you're not really prepared for it and you just have to deal with it."

Community continues on Thursdays at 8/7c on NBC.

[GeneChing]

A ninja sword is more stylish.

Man accused of attack with ninja sword
The Reporter Staff • November 17, 2010

A 24-year-old man is being held in a health care facility after he allegedly chased a man with a ninja sword.

At 12:03 a.m. today, police responded to the 100-block of Marquette Street for a complaint of a man with a sword.

“The 22-year-old victim had gone over to a friend’s house. A roommate of the friend’s apparently came in with a sword and began yelling at the roommate and victim,” said Fond du Lac Police Department Capt. Steve Klein. “He told the friend of the roommate to get out of the house and began chasing him with the sword.”

The weapon is described as a three-foot ninja-style sword, Klein said.

“At one point, the suspect pointed the sword at the victim and jabbed at him, causing a small indentation in the shoulder and a small cut to his left pinky finger,” Klein said.

The suspect made suicidal comments and barricaded himself in a closet, he said.

When the man is released from a medical facility, he is expected to be charged with disorderly conduct and second-degree recklessly endangering safety, said Klein.

[GeneChing]

NINJA GIRLS VOL. 4 (ADVANCE REVIEW)
Friday, 19 November 2010

▪ RELEASED BY: DEL REY
▪ AUTHOR / ART: HOSANA TANAKA
▪ FORMAT: JAPANESE / B&W
▪ PAGES: 200
▪ RATING: M
▪ RELEASE DATE: 11/23/2010
▪ REVIEW DATE: 11/19/2010
▪ REVIEWED BY: DAVEY C. JONES

Raizo gets parted from his ninja babes to help a girl about to be sacrificed to a tree of all things. It leads to some more news about his dearly departed mom but is only the start of the adventure in this volume of Ninja Girls!

Azami, a girl with glasses (thus rounding off almost every stereotype of gal a harem story can have) shows up wanting to join. She doesn’t seem to have a speck of talent...or does she? Katana spies a tattoo on the girl but the bathing time, though revealing, doesn’t show as much as Katana would like. It puts her in a bad light with Raizo and she ditches him! That’s right, the babe goes off on her own thinking she’s failed the wimpy dude. This of course makes it a perfect time for Seigan to make Katana several offers. Seigan is a seriously creepy guy and a fantastic villain. Luckily Katana has her head in the right place and refuses him, but he may have more than one ace up his sleeve to snare her in his web.

While looking for her, Raizo gets framed for murder and sentenced to death! Seigan steps in offering to save Raizo’s life in exchange for Katana to serve Seigan completely. She refuses, a fight breaks out, and its serious ninja action time! One of the ninja girls will die this volume!

Plus the manga has translation notes and comic panels.

IN SUMMARY:
More luscious action in the thrilling and titillating Ninja Girls!

Because when it comes right down to it, it's all about my ninjettes.

[GeneChing]

This was just brought to my attention: Scottish Ninjas

NINJASTAR closes tomorrow. Have you voted yet?

[GeneChing]

"Have you seen him?," photographed in Minneapolis, MN, and contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by BB reader Phil Jones (website).