Waiting Out The Plague"...there is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something." Montaigne(Untitled)- January 30, 2005 How Embarrassing So for the last couple of days my leg and butt muscles have been completely sore. From what Bowling. Two games. Now, I'm not out of shape or anything, so I figure a couple games of bowling shouldn't nearly put me in traction, but what the hell Anyay, I feel better today -- perhaps good enough to attempt a nice peaceful bike ride across the Clean Center (cheery Kyoto euphemism for: Garbage incinerator) road. I am also making Paella.http://blogs.salon.com/0002393/2005/01/30.html#a229 (Untitled)- January 28, 2005 Don't Fear the Bowler Last night we went out with Markuz and Yuka to the MK Bowl for a little bowlin' up. I should preface this by explaining that there is almost nothing close to our house except for the MK Bowl (well, there are about three hair cutting salons, numerous cigarette and vegetable vending machines, and a sporadically open restaurant that specializes in wild boar hotpot), and yet this was only the second time we've actually been there. We had a very nice time,...http://blogs.salon.com/0002393/2005/01/28.html#a228 (Untitled)- January 25, 2005 Mr. Lurie Well, I'm back at school this week to finish up my grading for the semester and proctor a few exams. I have no idea what test I was monitoring today, but it must have been a hard one given the amount of surreptitious cheating (i.e. the roving eyes) that was going on in that room. I always want to smack the kids on the back of the head or something, to kind of get their attention when I can see them obviously craning over the seats to look at their neighbor's test, but I...http://blogs.salon.com/0002393/2005/01/25.html#a227 (Untitled)- January 22, 2005 Photo: Wishes for the new year at Shimogamo Jinja Democracy Takes a Hit Well, I endorse one candidate this year and a day later he's taken out of his apartment in handcuffs. Around the same time, Bush and Cheney, clad in tuxedos, are telling all rogue nations to watch their collective behinds. This doesn't bode well for the future of democracy this year.http://blogs.salon.com/0002393/2005/01/22.html#a226 (Untitled)- January 20, 2005 Where Is My Mind Sorry for being away for the last few days, but we were celebrating my wife's birthday, which generally morphs into a three-day festival of fun. Although, the weather has been so crap lately that we only got out yesterday afternoon in between rain showers. We rode our bikes down to Shimogamo Jinja (where I took the above picture of my much better half) and came home for dinner and a movie. Anyway, I haven't talked much about politics lately, as the subject...http://blogs.salon.com/0002393/2005/01/20.html#a225 (Untitled)- January 17, 2005 Photo: Jerry's Dobro How About That Today's weather forecast is: crap-ola. It is raining and muddy and ugly out there today, and to top it off, we're taking care of our neighbor Daniel's dog while he's in New York having a show (click on the calendar option). While we love the Max-man, this does mean that we have to take him out for walks in the mud and cold and rain. But please don't tell him I complained or it might hurt his feelings. ...http://blogs.salon.com/0002393/2005/01/17.html#a224 (Untitled)- January 14, 2005 Meta-Sweeping What with me working on two blogs now, everything's starting to get a little self-referential around here. And while I'm not exactly averse to hard work, I'm still going to cherry-pick things from the SoNew Media Lit Tracker that catch my eye, like the homepage of this writer Marty Beckerman, author of the book Generation S.L.U.T. The guy tends to use rather filthy language, but it's really funny, I swear -- check out this excerpt from his book (uhh,...http://blogs.salon.com/0002393/2005/01/14.html#a223 (Untitled)- January 13, 2005 A Novel in Winter We watched Paul Schrader's Mishima last night, which is a very well done filmizization of the life of one of Japan's great writers. The structure is quite intricate, interspersing black and white dramatization of Mishima's real life with color stage productions of three of his novels. The effect is quite startling, especially since the stage productions are wildly impressionistic and easily outshine the sort of pedestrian biography that fits...http://blogs.salon.com/0002393/2005/01/13.html#a222 (Untitled)- January 12, 2005 Quality On a mellow Wednesday, I'd like you to look at two different answers to the question "What makes something good" The first is Glorious Noise's blurb about an upcoming documentary about Roger Salloom, a man who seemed to be heading for stardom. The second is here, and it basically says that the thumbs are all-powerful.http://blogs.salon.com/0002393/2005/01/12.html#a221 |