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    Benikamikiri

    T solved my weekend bug mystery. The answer is Purpuricenus (Sternoplistes) temminckii, a name even your best friends couldn’t remember. Let’s just call him beni-kun.

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    Future Spirits

    Taro’s aunts called from Horyuji to say they were harvesting this year’s plums from the ancient trees in their front yard and to ask if I wanted to come pick…

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    Bottled Water

    In general, bottled water from France is expensive and disgusting. Funny, it doesn’t taste nearly as bad drinking it when you’re in France. Maybe they save the good stuff for…

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  • Photos

    Red Mystery Beetle

    Anybody know offhand what this bad boy is? (click on image to enlarge) I found him crawling on my car last month. When I tried to touch him, he flew…

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    Akashi Kaikyo Bridge Photos

    Some photos Nam took with her new Coolpix S6 when we passed under the longest suspension bridge in the world (4km) last month on the Taco Ferry (this “taco” means…

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  • Videos

    Lead Belly

    I was doing some research on Lead Belly for a blues project I’ve been kicking around in my head, when it occurred to me that he lived until 1949 and…

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  • Videos

    Kentaro redux

    Somebody upped a better version of the DJ Kentaro/Shinichi Kinoshita clip from NHK’s LiveJam last year. This is basically his best stuff so far, besides the Solid Steel compilation, so…

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    Butcher Standard

    That video I posted yesterday is stuck in my head. On one hand, it’s been positively liberating having that tune on my lips all day. Delivery truck cuts me off…

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