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New Workday Schedule
– Wake up at 6:20 – Shit, shower, shave – Breakfast – Catch 7:28 bus for work – Arrive 7:45 – Morning exercises/brainwashing ceremony at 8:00 – Work – Walk home from work (maybe 45 mins.; will time today) First day thoughts: Morning exercise routine is for the birds. Everybody stands facing my side of the room, so I have a sinking feeling that everyone is staring at my ass when I bend over. This is not conducive to a pre-lunch bowel movement, and I like to stay regular. Plus, brainwashing exercises are not as interesting, even from a cultural viewpoint, as I once thought. I do not want to…
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Rare Sighting
Just saw a fire engine red Ferrari Testarossa rear-end a red fire engine. If that ain’t poetic justice, I don’t know what is. The Ferrari driver was, of course, a big, fat wanker who got out and started yelling at the firemen. I made sure to laugh hard enough so he could hear me.
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Shucho Hell
The past few days have been spent in business meetings and on buses. I’ve spent like ten hours on buses in the last three days. Buses beget buses. Go figure. I’m so wacked I couldn’t remember if BUSES was spelled BUSSES, BUSES, or BUSSESS, so I chose the middle one. When in doubt, straddle the fence (and hope it ain’t barbed wire). Must unplug. Must unwind. But first, must go back to the office and fill out expense reports. By bus. Ugh.
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Nata de
Nata de Coco, one of the most delicious canned drinks to be found in a Japanese vending machine. By the geniuses at Ito-en, who can even make bottled mugi-cha taste good.
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Japanese Office Trivia of the Day: FedEx
Did you know that FedEx actually has FOUR official FedEx Box sizes? Small, Medium, Large, and unmarked. The unmarked size is larger than all the others… and the very existence of an unmarked box size annoys the shit out of me for some reason. Logically, it should be Extra Large or X-Large or oh!oh!oh! I know!… FedEx Large! Fucking office work marginalizing my Medulla again. Tomorrow I might report on the danger of paper cuts in the workplace and the Japanese solution of thick orange condoms for your fingertips.
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Shinbashi
This has been around for quite a while, but is still one of my all-time favorite Japanese flash animations: SHINBASHI And this one is sort of a punk tribute to sora mimi: OMAKE (both links from T)
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Random Zatoichi Pic
Just something I found on my hard drive. Zatoichi pics make me immensely happy.
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Drop It Like a FOB
If you have a lot of chest hair, Show it like a FOB, Immigration coming to get you, Marry like a FOB, Anoop Dogg – Drop It Like a FOB This is like the funniest shit I’ve ever seen. Much-needed comic relief.
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White ninja footwear
Me, in tabi.
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off “Soundtrack”
“Unfortunately, Hughes’ didnt feel that the music would fit together well when removed from the film and compiled into an album. The songs work really well alongside the highs and lows of the film, but there isnt much of a common thread running between the songs other than the film’s plot. So unlike Hughes’ other successful films, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off never received an official soundtrack release.” Go get all the songs in mp3 format here.
