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Just Rike Home
Please enjoy this simple post like it was written by a real, live human being.
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Steady Diet of Work Screeds
Oh yeah, it’s my favorite time of the week, every week: The Friday Work Wind-down Period. This is the period that my employers should take special care not to speak…
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Salute to the Commissar
This is a shout out to that commie propagandist over at the Politburo Diktat, who seems intent on impaling himself on a whole series of bandwidth spikes! I found a…
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Bargaining Is a Lost Art
As I have explained in the past, I am a terrible gadget junkie. But I’m frugal, in some ways. The main reason I can hardly ever bear to pay top…
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Black Beetle
Taro’s aunt Tatan got all hipster and bought a bubblecar. Cute. But Strange.
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Drum Box
In Taro’s genkan. I think this is the shipping box for a Meinl djembe or other African drum. Not really African since they’re made in Thailand, but in this great…
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Staying Alive
Taken, of course, at Taro’s house. I wouldn’t keep this dreck in my collection. I mean, I bought the Bee Gees and Air Supply separately, thank you! Coincidence of coincidences,…
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Reviled Feline
This is Taro’s wife’s cat. Miki is the meanest fucking cat in the world, besides the three-legged one with rotting skin that I saw pounce on a rat in Osaka…
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Memories of Spain
The cheapest cure for hangovers in Spain. 500 yen bottle on sale at Yamada-ya in Nara.
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Yasui kamo…
This is one of the cheapest escort services I have ever seen in Japan. This poster was attached to an empty oil drum in the deserted parking lot of the…
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Coding over beers
Just put Haloscan-powered comments on Taro’s blog. I hope he starts using it instead of that ghetto BBS for daily posts. I’m typing this on my baby U3 Vaio while…
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Good Wax Job
All bow to the king of drive-thru car wash “Ultra-sheen Rain Repellant” settings! 800 yen every time I go!
