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Monthly Archives: June 2004

Lost Bread Topped With Fried Bananas

Everyone knows how to make French Toast, but I consider my version to be top shelf. My favorite thing about FT is that I almost always have the ingredients, and it is a quick meal. Try this version out: Ingredients: bread, left out from the night before or toasted to get rid of moisture eggs … Continue reading »

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Around Aso and Kuju

The view from the top of the caldera was unusually clear yesterday. In case you’re up here, the rest stop on the 339 right before it T intersects with the 45 sells awesome takoyaki.

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Nature Is Disgusting

Let’s face it, nature is a dirty place, dirtier than places like the middle-class suburbs, but mostly cleaner than third world countries, slums, and shanty towns where the population’s excrement co-mingles with their drinking water. Ah, the suburbanites have the luxury of crying about how tragic it is that their kids won’t get to experience … Continue reading »

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Go/Roku Nensei Pets

Yoshihiro: Dad, do you remember that you said I could have a pet if I brought up my grades? Yoshihiro’s dad: Hmmmm… You have been getting good grades in school. I think you’re ready for the responsibility. You can pick any cow you like. Toshiki, pass the steak would you? Yoshihiro: Can I have the … Continue reading »

Categories: Ubuyama | 2 Comments

Welcome to Mindhead

Yikes! We got our drug education from DARE (at Courreges Elementary), who did a decent job of educating without too much propaganda. Do you remember seeing Dianetics… Dianetics junior much better then Krishna, Dianetics junior much better indeed, And all you people there, your tremendous, Except the people in the middle, When you’re toking up … Continue reading »

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Higothai

This is the Higothai flower, the flower of Ubuyama village. As some of you may know I used to hate bees. They used to sting me quite often. even though I avoided them, they would regularly land on me and jab me with their stingers. One time, I had to take a Tae Kwon Do … Continue reading »

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Guardians of the 442 Gosen

This one looks like the golden idol that Indiana Jones steals in the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It looks like he’s not happy about something. Something tells me that that isn’t a hatchet used for chopping wood. Dude looks ready for battle.

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Ode To Inaka Ninniku

On a routine after-work drive, deep in the country I spotted an unattended shack with a sign that read “yasai (vegetables), 100 yen”. Nestled among the daikon and shiitake mushrooms was a mesh bag containing two choice clusters of garlic. For some reason, the garlic caught my eye, and so I dropped my 100 yen … Continue reading »

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Unorthodox Wu-Shu

If a modern day Bruce steps forward to take up the challenge, a remake of Enter The Dragon is entirely possible with the help of Donald Rumsfeld (Thanks to Chris for the link) who will be cast as Han, the evil geriatric dude who makes life as a hand amputee look pretty cool with the … Continue reading »

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Not Too Shabby

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