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Buddhism Wireless Life ???
There’s this really weird GoogleAd on the Blogspot banner over at the Big Ho’s right now. The link says “Buddhism Wireless Life” and links to http://www.wiphi.net/. No link, because there…
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Festival at Miwa Shrine
Following their animistic roots, Cosmic Buddha went to the Miwa Grand Shrine as first documented in this post. Since then, I repeatedly forgot about some of the other photos waiting…
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Top 15 Names for Wal-Mart Wine
15. Box O’ Grapes 14. Chateau du Crack Chardonnay 13. White Trashfindel 12. Big Red Gulp 11. Grape Expectations 10. Domaine Wal-Mart “Merde du Pays” 9. Sam’s Dog 20/20 8.…
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Kill Bill 2
I borrowed the first cool Eiga Hi-Ho pic for the first flick in this post last year. Follow this link to read the interview with David Carrantine for the second…
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Vendor Problems
It’s never a fun thing to have to deal with yakuza because of a fuck-up created in your own procurement department. Before Golden Week, the stupid noobie manager in Procurement,…
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Post-GW Blues
For those of you that returned to work today and asked yourself that time-honored question, “why in the hell do I still work here?”, I present one of my most…
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Golden Week
Golden Week is what they call spring break in Japan. Why it’s golden is something I can’t quite recall, but it may have something to do with the millions and…
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Bach Processing
Today is the last day of work during this “baching it” period for the Cosmic Buddha. Goddamn, how time flies. It seems only yesterday that I started off eating strange…
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Your ass ain’t worth it
I spoke with a friend about this the other night and we did some rough (read: beer-inspired) calculations to estimate how much money every Japanese taxpayer paid for the release…
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I blame it all on Portishead
I placed a down payment on a theremin yesterday. I have no idea what it will end up looking like, but this is for the best, I feel. For this…
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Cheesecake Factory?
Well, Slate followed up the wonderful variety meat article with one written by a food critic weenie from England, of all places. Perhaps his wittiest assertion in comparing London’s Chez…
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la cucina povera
I’m all for this. As anyone I’ve ever gone to yakiniku with can attest to, my fondness for what even what a lot of Japanese won’t eat. Slimy cow guts…
