Month: June 2003

Has anyone read one of Isaac Adamson’s novels? He has a new one out, called DREAMING PACHINKO (after TOKYO SUCKERPUNCH and HOKKAIDO POPSICLE), which I’m thinking of ordering. I’ve read at least two reviews of his books in TIME ASIA (the most recent one appearing a few weeks ago), and they were both positive, describing…

The Kung-Log program is actually quite nice. For one thing, it lets you have a bigger space to write your entries. Even better, you write everything offline (yes, I have a permanent fiber optic connection to the Internet, but still) and are able to save all the things you write as drafts, which you can…

This is just unbelievable. An LDP lawmaker, Seiichi Ota, said the following during a debate: Gang rape shows the people who do it are still virile, and that is okay. I think that might make them close to normal. At least Prime Minister Koizumi is freely expressing his disgust (from Japan Today): Prime Minister Junichiro…

Check out the new Apple Store opening in Chicago tonight. Beautiful. Can’t wait for the Ginza store to open, sometime early next year I think. It’ll be the first international Apple Store.

Here’s the trailer for a new post-apocalyptic Japanese flick called DRAGONHEAD. Here’s a description in French of the original Mochizuki Minetaro manga. I don’t think it’s been released anywhere in English yet.

The great ramen adventure continues, this time in Chiba, which is where I was teaching today. My assistant brought me and two of her daughters (the third one was attending juku, Japanese cram school) to a ramen shop after we were done with classes. I can’t remember the name of the place, but there were…

Well, it looks like everything is OK now. The site is now hosted on a new server, which should mean no more problems like I’ve been experiencing in the past few weeks. I’m also using a newer version of Movabletype (would you believe that I always typed it with an “e”, as in Moveabletype). The…