Month: December 2002

Oh, this site is gold, and the URL address says it all: scumbagsinjapan.com. This is how they describe the Shane English School: “Illegal contract conditions, trying to cheat teachers on wages, gouging its teachers and generally a not very nice place to work run by an arrogant 1970’s backpacking hippy scumbag with a U.S. cowboy…

From japantoday.com: The Tokyo area was hit by an unusually early snow Monday that played havoc with air, rail and road traffic, affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers, and caused hundreds of injuries, leaving one boy unconscious after he fell off a roof. At least 228 people suffered injuries due to the snow, mainly in…

TB.38 is up at the OPi8 site. A few more pics of today’s snow.

I really like the pics at Doctor Foxglove‘s site. Nice presentation also (with some good captions).

It’s snowing right now in Tokyo. Snow. In early December. Wow. It’s fucking cold in my apartment right now.

I think I’m going to start updating Tokyo Boy on a weekly basis now, instead of twice-weekly, and that will be on Mondays. I just haven’t been taking that many pictures lately, and I’m also getting busy with other things (like focusing on my Japanese language skills). Also, as for Geisha, I just haven’t been…

Just a reminder to check out the Tokyo Record Hunting Service. Best damn place on the Net for used Japanese CDs. There are even little featured artist blurbs now, to give you an idea of why you should be picking some albums. Be original this Christmas and get something different for the music freak that…

TB.37 is finally up at the OPi8 site, after a one-week break. Stuff from my day at the Resfest. Also, a big thanks to Warren Ellis for mentioning GEISHA in the latest message of his Bad Signal mailing list. For those popping in because of that, check back in a few days for the fourth…