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Eating Fido
As a wannabe chef, I might have thought about making a submission to the Carnival of the Recipes #3, a showcase for recipes from all around the blogosphere, but got…
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Gettin’ windy again already
The earthquakes passed and the gigantic wall of water ala Lucifer’s Hammer never came… But someone’s must be doing an effective rain dance because there’s another goddamn typhoon due to…
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Big Aftershocks
There was a magnitude 5 shaker in Wakayama earlier this evening when we were in a liquor store – all the stacks of bottles started moving back and forth, which…
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Lowriders of Thailand
These pics are from last year. We pulled into a highway reststop in the Thai countryside and were delighted to find a young entrepeneur selling coconuts from the back of…
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Thai Frog
I just liked this frog. He had this attitude like, “come TRY and step on me motherfucker!” and I was all like, “No, I’m faux-Buddhist when I visit Southeast Asian…
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The Glass Is Half Empty
This isn’t a good picture, but you can clearly see why I hate ordering draft beer in Japan sometimes. Where many would argue the aesthetic value of a 70/30 (in…
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Not Syrup Of Ipecac, But It Might As Well Be
Creamy wasabi dipping sauce??? No thank you.
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The Missing Kitten Epilogue, or, How a Ferret Stole My Thunder
So I suddenly got to thinking about the little black kitty I rescued a few months back, because, well, I miss him (BTW, the name Yoda stuck). I realize that…
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Kill Bill Volume ASCII
ASCII art translation of Kill Bill: http://disappointment.com/randomacts/ascus/killbill/page01.htm props.
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Food Carving – East Meets West
I guess the only thing that can beat that Japanese fruit carving site is the Spam Carving Contest.
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Charles Jenkins Interview
FEER has an exclusive interview with deserter Charles Jenkins: Four Decades in North Korea Props, props.
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School Lunch In Rural Japan
I just wrote an entry about kyushoku, or school lunch, on Higo Blog. I would have to say that the school lunches that I had in Ubuyama were much better…
