Posted on September 4, 2009 by jturningpin
I’ve started to get a bit antsy regarding the — let’s face it — blandness of a lot of the food options here in Nippon.
I therefore decided to spice things up by getting medieval on the corner supermarket’s cheese demi- baguette, or チーズフランス (“Cheese France”) as the locals call it, by throwing some jalapeños on [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2009 by jturningpin
Yes, the demise of Michael Jackson is by now old news and has already been blogged into the ground. But I mention it here for the following reasons:
-I have been watching the original Thriller video pretty much every day for the past week, and it still rocks. I mean, it has dancing zombies in it [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2009 by jturningpin
I passed by this poster in the station for a week or so before taking a good look at what it had to say … and then I was pulling out my cell phone and snapping a photo.
It’s a poster released by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police concerning 暴力団 (boryokudan), or the organized crime syndicate. It [...]
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