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I got hit on the head so many times during kendo this evening that my head seems to have developed a spine right down the center of its crown. My mental faculties are, as a result, doing just as they please thankyouverymuch ( Read more... )

I love the Decemberists. I love 'em to death. They throw lyrics like these at me: "how I abhor this place / its sweet and bitter taste / has left me wretched wretching on all fours / Los Angeles I'm yours!" Colin Meloy's voice is splendidly unique: it's a mix of childhood fondness (he doesn't complete his r's) and caustic incision. He'll pull ( Read more... )

So Pixies excitment has been eating up a lot of my free time. I've acquired the April 14th (Winnipeg) show so far and am in the process of getting the kickoff show from Minneapolis from the day before. It seems that this band may very well persuade me to travel to Niigata, but that's far in the future so we'll see ( Read more... )

I suck at speaking Japanese. Can I just be a mute from here on out? I'll carry around a dry erase board and five markers of varying colors. People will see me and say, "Hey, that's the mute kid. Let's go draw rainbows and dragons on his white board ( Read more... )

Perched on one of the hills tucked behind the main campus of Kanazawa University is a makeshift tower just tall enough to house functioning weather instruments. On the very top of this tower sits an organ that, when played, coaxes church hymns out through the dense bamboo, through the rugged notches and into the knife-cut valleys. The soft tones ( Read more... )

This made me laugh.

Liberal Leader Urge Nader to Abandon Bid

"Prominent liberals are pleading with third-party candidate Ralph Nader to abandon his "quixotic and destructive" presidential bid..."

Excuse me while I laugh. Americans for Democratic Action? Council for a Livable World?

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