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Shogun fun: Whether you have a casual fascination with Japanese pop culture or are an irredeemable otaku, Patrick Macias’s delightful blog An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla will demystify the weirdest that the Land of the Rising Sun has to offer, from anime bondage fan-fiction to maid cafés where fetching young serving girls call you master and challenge you to pre-school board games—for a price. Macias is an American journalist based in Tokyo who doesn’t take things too seriously, but loves every nerdy minute of it at patrickmacias.blogs.com.

Kicking back: Scott Johnson is a blogger, podcaster, cartoonist and video gamer who has elevated spare time to an exquisite art. His blog/personal mega-site ExtraLife (which includes forums, a vlog and original cartoons) covers all the most essential spare-time topics, from Transformers and online gaming to the design of the Batsuit and a visit to Blendtec HQ, in which he blended a broken Batman action figure and a copy of Everquest II. Un-ironic glee at www.myextralife.com.

by Michael Citrome

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