Superabundant Power vs. Realultimatepower.net
I’m not sure how it came about, but both these stories ended up in front of me at the same time, and they seem to share a certain ineffable something, so I’m posting them together. So there.
First, from Janus: the Reuters Oddly Enough story of “The Great Sasuke”: Masked wrestler wins Japan assembly seat. Good stuff, especially the part about how “the wrestler said he now hopes to demonstrate his ‘superabundant power’ outside of the ring as well as in it.”
Because who could hear about a Japanese wrestler-turned-politican wielding his “superabundant power” without immediately thinking of realultimatepower.net, the ninja-tribute site created by faux-12-year-old Robert Hamburger. I previously posted a lies.com item about the site; that item continues to be one of the top comment-getters here.
Including the recent comment from reader Jeremy, who pointed to a really excellent piece from Studio 360, the public radio show, featuring an interview with the site’s creator. It’s actually worth enduring the suck of Realplayer to listen to it; that guy Robert (the real Robert, not his 12-year-old alter ego) is so cool it makes my pee pee hurt.
Update: Be sure to check out http://www.internetmammogram.net/, which appears to be the work of the same subversive character. Thanks to Beck for the link.
