With the hopeful exception of ikahana, most of you probably didn't notice that I tried to make a comeback into the world of livejournal last night. Fueled by St. Bernardus and, uh, little else, I started a somewhat well-intentioned post that descended into gibberish by the end, and in a moment of clarity I decided to delete everything I wrote last night ( ( Read more... )

Hi everyone, I'm back. I've had a lot of stuff I could write about, but it was one of those strange writer's blocks where I never knew where to start so I just shut up about it. In the past 6 weeks or so, I could've written about:

- the adventures of Japanese class
- the inlaws' visit to America
- A-chan's birthday party at Sotto Sotto- ( Read more... )

Hi everyone, long time no...see? Read? Post? The times are getting too complicated - we need more cliches! Anyway, we just got back from Japan where we've been since August 6. Time may not allow much, but I'm hoping to do another series of those "Japan diary" things because I had a lot of fun this time around and experienced quite a few things. But ( Read more... )

saturday morning, the others aren't awake yet & i'm finishing coffee #2 - if i don't post now, i'll never do it ( Read more... )

For those of you not in Atlanta, sorry for abusing this post for its networking purposes ( Read more... )

One Flickr account later, I've got my Terrastock photos up. Here's the link to the 48 photos I took. Lots of heads in these photos (hey, this is head music after all, right?) but at least you can roughly make our their physical characteristics...as expected, the Kemialliset Ystavat pictures are easily the best of the lot, and I like the manic out- ( Read more... )

"This next one is the first song on our new album!"

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Here's a post that shows you some of the food I ate in Japan. This was spurred on by several people at work (the kind who have probably experienced Japanese cuisine from a "hibachi" chef hurling shrimp towards their open mouth, if even that) asking me "So what do people eat in Japan?" I'd imagine that most of you are a bit more knowledgable, but ( Read more... )

No pictures for this one, sorry to say, just some pretentious text as I take a couple of things that happened to me and then try to tie them into some huge over-generalization on religion. Dare you look?

( Onsen Baths, Electric Sodomy, and the Buddha )

I'm still not sure exactly how I'm going to write my Japan entries, but I know how I'm going to start it off at least...Here's a picture I took Saturday as we were driving down a main road in Yokohama headed towards Kamakura:

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