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Enson Inoue’s 750 mile vision quest is off to a rocky start

In case any of you missed the reports this morning that former Pride fighter, weed enthusiast and rumored Yakuza Enson Inoue has embarked on a 1,200-kilometer spiritual journey on the Japanese island of Shikoku, here's the Spark Notes version: Inoue is attempting to complete the island's celebrated "88 Temples Pilgrimage," in which travelers don white clothes and sedge hats in order to retrace the steps of a famous Buddhist monk said to have made the journey in the latter stages of the eighth century. Given that it's now 2010, most people do it by bus, but that's apparently not old-school enough for Inoue. He plans to walk the nearly 750 miles, even though he's been warned that he might die from the heat.