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True Grit
The guy I work across from, Angry Hiro, spent the whole day teaching a particularly inept vendor a lesson by yelling at them on the phone for ten hours straight.…
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Shopping Alert
If you are a techno gadget freak, this is not news to you but I’m posting this for all other forms of life in Japan: BUY AN LCD MONITOR RIGHT…
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Endangered Specieswatch: The Humpbacked Obachan
I am too respectful to post a pic, but believe me, I have surreptitiously photographed several. Yes, Concerned Reader, it is true: The Humpbacked Obachan is on the verge of…
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Pic o’ the Day
I beat anorexia! I so want that shirt. Update: Dave found a link where I can get one: LINK
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My high school dean was right
Link found somewhere (just before my browser crashed): 20 Questions to a Better Personality …. You are a WRDL–Wacky Rational Destructive Leader. This makes you a Enemy of the State.…
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A pile of fish sausages at the market
“Fish Sausage.” Nasty.
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Dumplings and Roadkill
Two good links today: One for the Road: West Virginia’s Roadkill Cookoff Bitter cold spurs dumpling madness
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Mongolian Mustard-seed Antagonism
I’m back, after a five-day stretch being tortured by Koga ninjas in their secret lair under Lake Biwa. Fortunately, I survived by using my wits and took them all out…
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Chicken Mayonnaise
Nam just sent me this photo of a chicken-mayo nigiri. Guess it gets boring on that bus to Osaka.
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The Other, Other White Meat
Go check out the Evil Sandmich’s continued writings on his adventures in Japanese cuisine last year: LINK Excerpts: One morning they had a little hit of ketchup with the Japanese…
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Fishing Log
Here I will post what we, as a collective, have caught on Awaji up until now, and maybe it will turn into its own updated page. A baby kawahagi (trigger…
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This is a Zebra
English school or stationery store?