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Where do stolen Japanese bikes go? ????????????????
Well, many of them end up in Thailand: One of two bicycle stores in town selling only stolen bikes from Japan that we visited this week (we’re looking for a…
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Alouette
A classic Kids in the Hall sketch. Alouette is actually a pretty morbid song by modern standards: Alouette, gentille Alouette Alouette, je te plumerai Je te plumerai… Translation: Little skylark,…
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Thai funerals are chill
I went to a funeral over the weekend; a coworker lost her father. I always find it remarkable at funerals here because they’re such pleasant affairs. Is this a Theravada…
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Jobless PhDs
This article was making the rounds a while ago, but I forgot to link to it: The Case for Working With Your Hands There are a huge number of people…
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MJ
Okay, if you’re a normal person, you had enough of Michael Jackson news approximately 2.4 hours after his death. It took me considerable time to ignore every single headline with…
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Plagiarism in Thai Universities
I stumbled upon an excellent article on plagiarism over at Inside Higher Ed: LINK Plagiarism is such a deeply rooted and widespread problem in Thailand, I think it deserves its…
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Our New Thai House Part 5 – The Blessing Way
The end of 2007 coincided with the milestone of 98% or so of the basic house being completed, so we decided to move in on New Years Day. We invited…
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Robogeisha
I can’t decide whether this is a joke or just the queen mother of Japanese B movies: Whatever the case, it gets minus ten points for the mislabeling of a…
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Manzai Conspiracy Theory (not really)
So I didn’t even know about the Two Ronnies until today. They apparently had a show on BBC from 1971. In Japan, Beat Takeshi and Beat Kiyoshi formed their manzai…
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Yoshi Ikuzo – Precursor to Japanese Hip-hop (yo yo)
He’s kind of the Grandmaster Flash of Japan, except he didn’t contribute anything to turntablism and he raps in the Tohoku (instead of Bronx) vernacular. Also, he includes kamishibai (link)…
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There were better days..
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Nikkeis from South America paid to leave Japan (and not come back to work ever again)
I’ve really been out of the loop, but this was a really interesting read: Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home Even though the dumbass running the program can’t keep…
