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Quick Airport Tip
If you are picking up someone with the last name “Lee” whose flight from Korea disembarks at the exact same time as three others, it might not be terribly helpful…
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Speed. Power. Focus.
I was shootin’ the shit with a salesman from TUV (a safety standards certification company) a few years back and found out he was a long time student at a…
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Chloraseptic
An absolute lifesaver. I must be spraying an equivalent of a full shot of the cherry-flavored stuff every night. It’s the only thing stopping me from scratching the inside of…
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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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Fido’s Assmaker
The main reason I didn’t feel like posting until today was: Yowch. This isn’t me by the way, I just took the picture. As you can see, I must have…
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Naked Sweaty Fat Men
Last night, I ordered tickets to the Nagoya Sumo Tournament in July for myself and 11 other lucky peeps (You can order Sumo tickets for any of the Nihon Sumo…
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Mudgrubber
On the way home from field archery a few months ago, I spotted this bad boy about to get squished on the road. We took him home for lack of…
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Look wot I can do!
Wow. I just wrote the PERFECT POST here and lost it when I accidentally closed the browser window. Hooray for me! No, I will not attempt to recreate it. That…
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Ode to Yoshi-Gyu
I have been depressed since this weekend when Nam and I walked past a Yoshinoya (ex-purveyor of gyudon, or “beef bowls”) and saw: A. A notice on the door informing…
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Brimful of Asha
I once drank a pinchful of vibhuti, sacred ash, dissolved in a cup of water at the insistence of a crazy white guy I met in Japan who was a…
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Homeward Bound
The woman and I woke up at 5:00 to be greeted by the coldest morning of the year (so far). The sky was dark and opening the curtains let in…
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Dead and Bloated
Incidentally, Cosmic Buddha’s GF recently shared a scary story about a women’s restroom at the rear of a temple she visited in Thai a couple years ago. Apparently there was…
