Well, there will be no rant from me about the Tribe's ALCS collapse. Though game 7 featured a regrettable and totally boneheaded miscue (third base coach Joel Skinner holding Kenny Lofton at third when Lofton would have scored the tying (tieing? how can i possibly not know this?)run easily)the Sox victory makes so much sense. If your number 1 and ( Read more... )

I can only take the surprise appearance of hordes of insects during game 2 of the ALDS (recapped here) to mean that God hates the Yankees as much as everybody else outside of NY (I'm also including plenty of frontrunning douchebags from other states who choose to root for the Yankees). Hopefully Ol' Roger Clemens implodes in game 3 and the Tribe ( Read more... )

So...um...yeah. One week after I post a rant bemoaning the disastrous state of the Browns, they put up 51 points en route to an improbable upset victory over the heavily-favored Bengals. I don't get how the Browns can look like the worst team in the NFL one week and then look like they are fielding three potential pro bowlers (Jamal Lewis, ( Read more... )

As Mr. Jason Frisbee has pointed out on occasion, my LJ doesn’t typically describe my life in Japan. More commonly, I offer a cantankerous Cleveland sports rant. Well, you’re about to get another one. However, I will also mention that I took many photos during my parents’ visit, and photos of famous places such as Kinkaku-ji and Ginkaku-ji are ( Read more... )

Greetings....it's a slow night during vacation time. Tomorrow I'm going to a Ninja Museum in Iga Ueno. Given what I've been lead to believe about ninjas, it should be both awesome and totally sweet. Actually, I took a nostalgic look at Real Ultimate Power today, and I think the old chestnut stands the test of time. It's so insistently moronic ( Read more... )

It turns out that the suicide was not a man at all, but an older woman (I wasn't able to get an exact age from anyone). I guess I'm glad I was far enough away from the body that I could make such a mistake.

In much happier news, I finally got ahold of the seventh and final Harry Potter book, so I'm very eager to start reading. My plans for ( Read more... )

A man committed suicide at the Toyota Sangokan Building today. My AEON branch is on the second floor of Sangokan. I'll warn you now that the following entry may be morbid or graphic, depending on your sensibilities, and I promise that I'm not trying to come up with clever constructions or otherwise diminish the tragedy of the event for the sake ( Read more... )

wow....did I fall into a wormhole and end up in 1995? It's certainly strange to come home from work, check the Indians box score on yahoo sports, and find out that Kenny Lofton went 3 for 5 with an RBI. I haven't been following sports news very closely, so I had no idea that Lofton, who is my all-time favorite player, was back with the Tribe. ( Read more... )

Greetings!

I finally got off my ass and made a Photobucket account. Here's a random selection of photos from my adventures in Japan.


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rest assured that a huge update is coming detailing my two trips to Kyoto and this weekend's upcoming trip to Tokyo....but at the moment I just have to say one thing. For my birthday, I went out to an amazing Japanese restaurant and then went to a bar called (I'm not kidding, in true Holden Caulfield fashion) "Junk" with fellow foreign coworkers ( Read more... )