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Tagged by slave_to_anime, character: Jinyo.
Also tagged by rurouni_jedi, but I barely feel like doing one of these, let alone two. See my User Info section on memes.

1. Do you like this character? Are you asking if I like him, or if I like him like him?
2. What name/s do you call this character? Why call him at all if he won't come when I call him?
3. What image-color do ( Read more... )

Finally, I have come to the end of my UK posts ( Read more... )

I'm at the end of my UK posts, so here's an uncategorized assortment of pictures. I just thought they looked kind of neat.

( Why, God, Why! )

My friend John lives in London with his wife Ann. I've known John and Ann since before they abandoned their homeland for these foreign shores, and enjoyed a couple of visits with them.


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England loves its security cameras. They have these cameras everywhere! It makes me wonder whether they really deter crime. Shortly after I arrived in London, a guy was mugged right near my building. The cameras didn't seem to prevent that from happening ( Read more... )

Jack the Ripper was the nickname given to the first serial killer to gain notoriety. Surprisingly little is known about Jack the Ripper. His killing spree took place in 1888, and he was never caught. In fact, there is uncertainty as to how many people he killed, since the victims attributed to Jack were not killed in a uniform manner. Because of ( Read more... )

The reason I traveled to Wales was to visit Portmeirion (pronounced "port Marion"), the resort where the TV show "The Prisoner" was filmed ( Read more... )

I took a weekend trip to northwestern Wales. I took a train up from the nearby Euston Station. I did more train riding in London than I had in years of living in the US. It's quite a popular mode of transportation. It's no unlike taking an airplane, but there aren't the complicated check-in procedures or the security requirements, so even though it ( Read more... )

Earlier, I'd been accused of not posting any pictures of other people, an allegation of which I am guilty. So, here are some of the people who were in London with me.

( The American Invasion! )