C. S. Magor

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.

  • Light saber badminton [video]

    March 24, 2011
    Badminton is an interesting sport. It is fun to play but painful to watch, unless light sabers are involved. The video below is a perfect example of what can be accomplished with the right computer software and way too much spare time....

  • Akihabara stabber gets death penalty

    March 24, 2011
    A couple of years ago 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato drove a rented truck into Japan’s electronics Mecca, Akihabara – having previously posted messages on a website that he was planning to do some killing. He picked a Sunday for his knife rampage because he knew that on Sunday the streets...

  • Refuel a chopper and help Tohoku quake victims

    March 23, 2011
    I know, we all have disaster fatigue now – but the fourth biggest earthquake in recorded history hit Japan a couple of weeks ago and was followed up with a tsunami chaser. The situation on the ground in the worst areas is bad: roads are gone or covered in...

  • Pole dancing for Jesus

    March 23, 2011
    Pole dancing – once sensuous and seductive and reserved for trips that men secretly took to the wrong part of town has become mainstream – a sport – used to exercise away the excesses of suburban life… it has even made its way to church. Independent “Pole Fitness for...

  • Bank robber demands money by way of ridiculous note, hands over ID

    March 22, 2011
    In prison, there is something of a hierarchy of crimes. From what I have heard, bank robbery is something of a respectable crime. But something tells me that 49-year-old Nathan Wayne Pugh won’t be getting a whole lot of respect. It was not so much what Pugh did as...

  • Chinese man jailed for spreading radiation rumors

    March 22, 2011
    A Chinese man was jailed for 10 days and hit with a 500 yuan ($76.13) fine for spreading rumors online that the nuclear accident at a power plant in Japan had contaminated Chinese waters. Authorities in Zhejiang province said that a computer company worker by the name of Chen...

  • Chinese gastronomists hope to test world’s appetite for pee eggs

    March 22, 2011
    Local chefs in Dongyang, Zhejiang province (in eastern China) have a two-thousand-year-old delicacy that they are hoping to take further afield: eggs boiled in the urine of little boys. If you want to try to recreate your own Dongyang urine egg experience, the recipe is really quite simple. All...

  • Russian soldiers shoot snow, snow fires back [video]

    March 22, 2011
    This YouTube video shows a group of Russian soldiers in North Ossetia creating a controlled avalanche… using artillery. Watching them nonchalantly stroll towards their vehicles as tons of snow barrel towards them tells me that they: A) hate life; B) have done it too many times to get any...

  • Bully gets body slammed [video]

    March 17, 2011
    Bullies tend to target people that they perceive as weak. In this case, the much smaller bully taunts and punches a large, seemingly passive chubby kid… The thing is the bully, whose name has been revealed to be Ritchard was a 12-year-old (as he is a juvenile We Interrupt...