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 taste goooood when they’re fried nice and crispy. And nothing beats a crispy fried pig’s tail. Pig’s foot Milanese is pounded so thin and breaded so thickly that the flavor of the pig’s foot is not readily discernible through the fried bread crumbs. Beef cheek ravioli are delicious, light and pillowy, with only a hint of fibrousness to the meat and a telltale chalky aftertaste. Lamb’s brain francoboli are so heavy on cheese and so light on brain that they…

Hat tip to Osaka Bill (“bill” in the comments, not “Bill”,- that’s Nara Bill) for the link.

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Last week I received an e-mail from Ed Jacobs, the editor at Japanzine stating that this blog had been chosen for a “Best of the Web” award. Japanzine is a free magazine of high quality distributed all over Japan and I have been reading it since its past life as The Alien. Anyway, they have an online version of the zine as well and the “Japan Blogging Scene” article this blog was featured in can be seen at: http://www.japan-zine.com/0404/Feature1.htm (link updated 4/30/04) C. Buddha’s Hasty Musings is sandwiched between Antipixel and 35 Degrees, two of my favorite photo blogs (if I can be so forward as to term them such).…

Posted at Nam’s request: Show Me, Show You The albino black sheep site it’s hosted on has a lot of interesting stuff on it, check it out. The site’s claim to fame is the famous google spoof , French military victories and its accompanying list of French military defeats.

Props to the Big Ho. His evil plan has worked. I was two clicks away from climax before I found his turd in my cream pie. In all fairness, I can’t really complain now that my own evil plan has achieved an admirable ranking of its own. Now everbody repeat after me: Adam Yoshida is an English Teacher living in Japan. Adam Yoshida is Canadian. Adam Yoshida is a “pretty princess.” Also: Kevin Kim (aka Big Hominid) is the owner of the Anger Poultry House. Kevin Kim is a slobbering australopithecus with mad drawing skills. Most importantly, Kevin Kim loves Korean wrestling.

I wrote a haiku today, inspired by this site: Dusty desert road. Weary rocket soldier sits, opening the can. Obviously, I’ve been playing too much Generals lately. And Adam’s recent post on Spam ignited a firestorm in my gut. I was forced to recognize that I need Spam on a regular basis. Need. But it’s too damn expensive in Japan. It’s as if they still price it the same way they did on the black market after the war, but adjusted for inflation. Happy Spam thoughts: Spam is one of the few foods that taste better in the “low salt” version. I tried a can of the spicy-flavored Spam a…

If you are a mac buff, go forth: The Macintosh at 20: Interview with Jef Raskin And by “mac buff”, I mean a true OG (GFINDER) type playa. Not this new breed of iTards whose solution to everything in life is “Buy a Mac!” Yeah, buy a $2000 mac to surf the net and send e-mail you brainless chatwhores. “Chatwhores” should be my word for the day, but it’s even below my taking credit for. Note: This entry was posted by my Powerbook 190 (16-shade greyscale, although the right bottom corner of the lcd has inexplicably become a solid yellow). Which means not a goddamn thing except that I miss…