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20 THINGS IT TAKES (insert variable) YEARS TO LEARN
Originally by Dave Barry, I believe, but mailed to me from a friend in Singapore. Universal truths are indeed universal: 1. Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. 2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.” 3. There is a very fine line between “hobby,” and, “mental illness.” 4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours. 5. And when God, who created the entire universe with all of its glories,…
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Fo tha Ho
This one is for the Big Ho, who once wrote to me about his one-eyed cat and how it likes eating used Q-Tips: WHY DO CATS LIKE EATING EARWAX ?? I personally prefer training my cats to eat used snotrags, but also to never accept any from strangers.
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Osteophage Society Memberships Available Now!
A tribute to everyone who visited/called this weekend: The Undrinkable Cocktail Thanks to you all for leaving the airag at home… Last night I watched the fireworks and slept very, very well.
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Remembering Hiroshima
…has been postponed for the time being in lieu of: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! Celebrations started early this year, and I have one last party to get to before the night is over. I’ve completely recovered from the heatstroke/food poisoning/mid-life crisis barfing thing the other day, so thanks to all those who wrote. Nam performed Thai dance at the Awaji Westin today, perhaps for the last time, and I took around 500 photos with my new DSLR, so I’ll be posting about that soon. Until then, Justin Yoshida I King of Awaji Island and Benefactor of Surrounding Territories
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PETA, Rejoice!
… for I will never eat sharkfin soup again. Yesterday I was in Himeji on a business trip. After our meetings, we went to the top of Himeji castle in the miserable heat and walked our clients a fair distance to their posh hotel. We then walked to the inconveniently located and much crappier hotel that we were staying at (a pox on our financial dept.), changed out of our dripping-with-perspiration dress shirts into casual ones, and immediately headed out for Chinese food back at the client’s hotel restaurant. I was on my third small glass of beer before the food came, and had just finished my bowl of sharkfin…
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Blueface
Himeji monkey.
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Himeji-jo
Himeji castle.
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Got to the top and melted
The view from the sixth floor of Himeji castle.
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NHK Fee Collectors
NHK is the national public broadcasting station in Japan. They send subscription fee collectors to seemingly every front door in the nation on a semi-regular basis, and in my experience, get turned away more often than not. 1.17 mil. households refuse to pay NHK subscription fees People usually try to get out of paying by saying that they either do not own a TV, or do not watch NHK. The latter isn’t an excuse at all; you’re supposed to pay anyway. I always used to use the former until a few years ago when the NHK guy pointed out my newly-purchased satellite dish and I had to explain it wasn’t…
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There is no love in your violence…
This sounds like a scene straight from Ishi the Killer: …Nagasawa then punched the victim in the face, saying he did not answer politely enough… …Nagasawa then allegedly followed the victim into his apartment and forced him to take off his contact lenses… “Are you wearing contact lenses now? Put them in my eyes,” Nagasawa told the 31-year-old victim…. After Nagasawa’s arrest Thursday in Kawasaki, just south of Tokyo, police put on display what they confiscated from his home — 124 pairs of glasses and 30 pairs of contact lenses of a wide variety… …Police did not comment on his motive but Nagasawa reportedly said: “I felt good when I…
