Giant Straw Godzilla Appears in Japan

A group of 150 volunteers have built a 23-foot tall likeness of Godzilla out of straw! It has LED eyes that light up, too. The giant statue is fashioned from rice reeds, which would lead one to think it's a harvest icon. An art project, for sure. Is it an offering to the Toho Studios monster that it should spare Japan any destruction this year? Or maybe destruction is the whole purpose. After all, Gävle, Sweden, put itself on the international stage by building a straw goat every year that gets torched. And this Godzilla is not only extremely flammable, it's set out in a field where such destruction would not hurt homes or businesses. Stay tuned. You can see more pictures of the straw Godzilla and its construction at Unreality.


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Kinda funny how people are looking ( staring ) at the radio as if it was a television. I wonder how many times some one said to get out of the way, like when some one blocks your view of the TV. I can imagine my Dad, who regularly said not to sit so close to the TV because it will damage my eyes ( yes, this was years and years ago ) telling me not to sit so close to the radio for some similar reason.
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Ten years or so ago, I spent nights working by myself in a little room running printers and things for the company I still work for. I had limited radio reception and ended up getting hooked on old radio shows as one of the few stations I could get carried the syndicated "When Radio Was" show that replayed a lot of great stuff from the 40's & 50's. A lot of the comedy was just brilliantly written and hearing some of the old commercials that are included is kind of fascinating. I still listen every weekend.
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It's not on the air any more, but radio theatre isn't entirely dead. The Atlanta Radio Theatre Co. and some others still produce either re-productions of classic shows or original work, presented either live (often at science fiction conventions) or recorded (CD's / MP3's or downloads). And the reason is that radio theatre is still a wonderful medium for sparking the audience's imaginations for nearly no production money.
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