Archive for September, 2009
What the Fu%$ was That
Happy Science I was riding my bike down the hill to Don Quixote the other day to buy a few odds and ends and to check out if they had any funny new Engrish advertising going on in the store and I spotted a business that I had not seen in town before. Now I'm not sure if it's simply a brand-new business or if I've ridden my bike past and missed [...]
Dumb & Dumber
Some of you will recall my earlier blog post about the DPJ defeating the LDP in the recent election. In that post I said something to the effect of "we will have to wait and see if the DPJ ends up being any better than the LDP." Well if the past few days are any indication that question is still very much up in the air. On the one-hand, [...]
Samba Samba in Yoyogi
Yesterday I went with my friend Hiroshi to the annual Brazilian Festival in Tokyo's Yoyogi Koen (Park). I am embarassed to say that this was actually the first time I had been to Yoyogi and also the first international festival that I have been to since I first came to Japan. Well, as the old saying goes, "better late than never". Hiroshi [...]
My Neighbor Totoro Has Swine Influenza
Once again the entire country of Japan has decided to freak-out about the Swine Influenza and all of the Japanese housewives and mothers have frantically busted open their piggybanks and purchased hundreds of thousands of flu masks in a matter of just a few days. One day everyone will be walking around like normal and then the very next day [...]
