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08.29.03
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Things are going well. My back is slowly
getting better. I'm still trying to
learn
Japanese. Jack is getting to be more
like
a little boy and less like a baby everyday.
Life is good.
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For your viewing pleasure: Contemporary bunraku (puppetry) artists make two guys playing pingpong into what appears to be a video game. Once
you see it, you'll know what I'm talking
about.
08.26.03
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Karen, my wife, put a want ad for a
secondhand
sewing machine in the local English
classifieds
recently. She got an unexpected response
to her ad the other day.
Below is a copy of the email that Karen
wrote
to her friend telling her about it.
His purring voice should have clued me in,
but anyway...here's our conversation:
Him: I'm calling about your ad.
Me: Oh, you have a sewing machine?
Him: Yes, I do.
Me: Okay, are you selling it for cheap?
Him: Yes, very cheap.
Me: How cheap?
Him: Very cheap. Where do you live?
Me: Tokyo
Him: Where in Tokyo?
Me: North Tokyo
Him: Whereabouts in North Tokyo?
Me: (stalling) What kind of machine is it?
Him: A sewing machine. JUST what you're looking
for. (heavy breathing begins to become obvious)
Me: Yes, what brand is it?
Him: Ummm..........a Brother.
Me: I didn't know Brother makes sewing machines.
Him: Umm...
Me: Where do YOU live?
Him: I live very nearby. I would like to
show you my machine.
Me: (chuckling now) You'd like to show me
your machine?
Him: Yes, it's very simple.
Me: ?????
Him: Can I come over?
Me: Right now? You want to come over with
your sewing machine?
Him: Yes I want to give you my machine. (heavy
breathing becomes very obvious here, punctuated
with small moans)
Me: Do you find sewing machines arousing?
Him: Ah-ah-ah
Me: That is SO interesting. You are a very
big freak, man!
Him: Uh-uh-ooohhh.
Me: Are you done yet? I have to feed my son
his lunch.
Him: Give me your email address and I'll
email you some photos.
Me: Okay, gotta go!
Him: Grunt grunt.
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08.23.03
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We have a friend in the neighbourhood, let's
call her Akiko, who often does little favours
for us. Akiko has a niece, let's call her
Rieko, with a young baby boy.
Rieko is in her early twenties, sweet, but
kind of from the rough side of town. We met
her several months ago. She had her baby
at the time and had just gotten married.
Although it was never explicitly stated,
I think that she got married because she
was pregnant. Well, her and her husband,
a young man of the overly-tanned-Hawaiian-style-gangster
variety, were only married for a few months
before he was off cheating with one of his
old girlfriends. A divorce soon followed.
Now Rieko and her baby are in a pretty tough
situation. I think they've been staying with
her parents.
The other night we heard from Akiko that
Rieko has been seeing a new guy for the past
little while. Last week he took her up north
to Nagano to meet his parents. It seems that
they're getting pretty serious. The catch
is, they didn't bring the baby. In fact,
they didn't even mention the baby. They pretended
that she didn't have any children.
Is that over the top or what? Is that
not
so "Three's Company" circa
1981...
08.20.03
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I just got back from the Tokyo Bloggers
meetup
at the Pink Cow in Harajuku. As usual,
it
was a great time. Most of Tokyo's best
and
brightest bloggers were there.
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Today I thought I'd share with you a few
photo sites that I've been checking out recently.
academicinfo.net -- A collection of links to various historical
photo archives.
michal-macku.cz -- A Czech photographer doing some really
interesting work with abstract human figures
ahc.uwyo.edu -- Turn of the century North American Native
photographer
photoeye.com -- Chinese photographer doing work that
resembles traditional Asian painting styles.
whiskeytown.net -- Collection of various photographers.
My favourite is Mary Ellen Mark.
czechslovakphotos.com -- Collection of Czech photographers doing
some interesting work.
Enjoy...
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