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Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people

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Japanese Society/Culture

Promoting Decay

Article in question: “YouTube” Web site has Japan’s broadcasters in a tizzy “Piracy of web contents, both in Japan and abroad, has been increasing recently,” an NHK spokesperson tells Shukan…

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July 3, 2006
Around Mahasarakham, Food, Photos

Maha Sarakham Restaurant Review – Little Tokyo

Went to a new Japanese restaurant opening today with Tong. It wasn’t crowded at all, and my first impression was bad because it reeked of fresh paint inside. I don’t…

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May 2, 2013
Web

What makes the cat woman crazy and other assorted links

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy: “…he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain.” Iron Giant: One of America’s great machines comes back…

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February 27, 2012
  • Old Blog Entries (archives),  Uncategorized

    I AM THE WALKING DOOD AGAIN TODAY

    March 2, 2009 / 5 Comments

    Just thought I’d amend my statement from the other day: NOBODY WALKS IN THAILAND –> THAIS GENERALLY AVOID WALKING AT ALL COST Because, obviously, I am in Thailand, and I am walking. Also, the only other guy I saw walking on my way home today was an illegal Shan. I usually walk home from my university’s (Rajabhat Mahasarakham University) campus through another university’s (Maha Sarakham University) secondary campus, and then down a four lane highway to the entrance of our community. People offer me rides all the time, even if they don’t know me. They stop to ask what’s wrong. As in, did my car break down or something? And…

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    Justin

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    Getting Musical (Thai Ranat Xylophone & Toy Snare)

    October 13, 2009

    Charismatic

    July 17, 2010

    Two batteries, two alternators, one radiator

    December 2, 2010
  • Videos

    Back to the Future, alternate ending

    March 2, 2009 / 0 Comments

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    Our cat ate an enormous spider.

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    Babytapi Amemura – Osaka

    June 11, 2024

    Thai Funeral with Royal Sponsorship

    April 20, 2021
  • Web

    Prime Change

    March 1, 2009 / 0 Comments

    From my inbox. Artist’s name is Tim Doyle.

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    Justin

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    April 7, 2004
  • Thai Society/Culture,  Web

    returning eastward

    March 1, 2009 / 1 Comment

    There’s an article up at the NY Times about how the global economic crisis is affecting the area where we’re living: In Southeast Asia, Unemployed Abandon Cities for Their Villages (click here for a login if you need one)

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    Justin

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    Captain Ahab: The Man Who Brought Us Lizard Salad

    April 10, 2008

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    November 1, 2011

    Dragonfruit in Bloom

    August 31, 2007
  • Food,  Web

    Nattokinase vs. amyloid fibrils

    February 28, 2009 / 1 Comment

    Attention: My nattoburger invention may now save you from Alzheimer’s.

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    Justin

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    hey, taro.

    February 26, 2011

    Red Curry Ribs with Fried Egg

    November 19, 2018
  • Web,  Work

    Writing exercises

    February 27, 2009 / 0 Comments

    While researching for an extended writing class, I stumbled upon this list of exercises at McSweeney’s: THIRTEEN WRITING PROMPTS Sample: “A wasp called the tarantula hawk reproduces by paralyzing tarantulas and laying its eggs into their bodies. When the larvae hatch, they devour the still living spider from the inside out. Isn’t that fucked up? Write a short story about how fucked up that is.” That’s so fucked up. The end.

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    Justin

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    Marchall Amps AKA Weiduka

    March 18, 2019

    Wolverine or Two Bat Men + The Defaced Bard of Avon

    February 28, 2011

    holy. doog.

    February 22, 2008
  • Web

    I heard it.

    February 27, 2009 / 1 Comment

    Can you?

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    April 5, 2005

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  • Japanese Society/Culture,  Society & Culture

    You say Dokdo, I say Takeshima (or the Liancourt Rocks)

    February 26, 2009 / 2 Comments

    The Big Picture captures the Dokdo/Takeshima (Takeshima/Dokdo) debate through big news shots: Dokdo or Takeshima They should just take one island a piece and turn them into penal colonies, or breeding grounds for the next generation of Godzilla. Actually, the best way to handle this situation is probably for the UN to evacuate the islands and then nuke them into oblivion. That way, neither side loses face, and that’s really what this is all about, right? A 500 year old Japanese-Korean pissing match about some rocks in the middle of nowhere… And yet, this issue even springs up in articles covering race relations at Little Tokyo senior care facilities. When…

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    Justin

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    Japanese Chopsticks Etiquette

    October 1, 2013

    Reposado de Kanpai

    December 6, 2005
  • Videos

    Surf Fishing for Great Whites

    February 25, 2009 / 1 Comment

    dayum!

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    Our cat ate an enormous spider.

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    Tokyo Sasumata Incident

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    Google Earth Hyperlapse

    February 9, 2017
  • Chillin',  Thai Society/Culture

    Someone turned the heat up…

    February 25, 2009 / 0 Comments

    …it was probably that big, feral, omniscient monkey in the sky. In two weeks it went from the high 70s (F) to over 100 degrees during the afternoon. It was hot. I decided to walk home since Nam dropped me off this morning. I walked a few miles and emptied the bottle of water I carried along. People drove by in/on all sorts of motored conveyances, and wondered where the hell the crazy Japanese guy was walking. NOBODY WALKS IN THAILAND. I’m the walking dude.

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    Justin

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    Important Notice

    March 25, 2008

    Dragonfly in flood

    September 22, 2011

    what does it all mean

    February 10, 2008
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