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Tits On the Aggregator
I had hoped to point out the Living In Japan page after it got a bit bigger as another good resource for Japan-related blogs, but I’m not comfortable doing so…
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Gaijin card, please
Via Yahoo Asia News: Japan to deploy armed police officers on U.S.-bound flights I hope they pick the old judo bulls with “cauliflower ear” instead of those 90 lb weakling…
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Catacombses Pt. II – Curse of the LMDP
The Guardian unveils the vampire Lazar, spokesartiste for La Mexicaine de la Perforation: Paris’s new slant on underground movies Personally, I think Ford should use the name Lazar for their…
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Your yen ain’t good enough
This article at Time Asia might as well have been titled “Why file sharing owns iTunes in Japan”: Where’s the Music? This article explains the reason I download MP3s with…
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Catacombses, my precious
From the Guardian: In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema In my third year of university here, my pal T came back from a two year journey all…
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What to do when you’re bored in Iraq
There’s a great article about soldiers fishing in Iraq over at the ESPN site: Fishing Saddam’s Waters Excerpt: “We’ve heard that Saddam only allowed his family (tribe) to fish these…
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Clear Lenses
Clear or yellow-colored lenses (aka “ambers”) are one of my pet peeves, because it all seems so high school. I think Options magazine is at fault for popularizing this trend…
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Day After Songda
Although me and mine (thx Kev) were unscathed, I saw a lot more damage around town as I drove to work today than I thought there would be. Some roads…
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Storm has passed
Everything is OK.
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‘zat you, Dorothy?
It’s very close now. Nothing much to report, except that the neighborhood strays are fighting for porch space.
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Evacuation Tip
If you are in Japan during a major disaster and need a place to evacuate, do not blindly follow the people in front of you – they are just as…
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Typhoons # 18 and 19
The company is making us go home at an unprecedented 2:00 in the afternoon so you just know we are in for a real beating. I haven’t been this happy…
