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  • Friends Share T here was a time not too long ago when one would hear of the music Nazis going after those who were downloading or sharing songs for free. I can understand some of the need to protect copyrights…

  • I'm a Xangan T ension is often brought about when there are two disparate, usually opposite forces vying for the same thing. For me, it would be my consciousness and my conscience. My consciousness becaus the …

  • Random thoughts T his is the last weekend of the summer for me. I have a Program meeting on Monday, and a departmental meeting Tuesday. School will start Wednesday with my first class, Japanese Literature in T…

  • Safe Birth MsbLiss posted that her water broke, so I'm under the assumption that she will have her baby in the next few hours. I encourage you to click on her name and wish her a safe birth and a healthy baby. The whi…

  • RiceBallJournal Thanks to to Steve for Bookmarking me at RBJ. I've added your name to my list of RBJ Tomodachi above on the comment page and on the left column on the main page. Your support is greatly appreciated! FY…

  • Teahouse of the August Moon II S ome of you may be wondering about the title of these entries. Well, the Tokyo home I talked about in the last entry was a former tearoom and it is currently August. Yes, yes,…

  • Dirty Joke I'm sorta surprised at how few wanted to read the joke. Of all the commenter for the last post post, less than half wanted to read it. Oh well, I guess only a select few stoop as low as me. BTW, if you're in…

  • Olympics L ike many of you, I have been following the Olympics. But I am, as many of you know, a serious fan of American professional sports, so if there is a Washington Redskins' game on TV at the same time a…

  • Minority Report Revisited ”§‚̐F@”ä‚א¢ŠE‚ª@•a‚ñ‚Å‚¢‚é hada no irokurabe sekai gayandeiru The color of the skincompared, and the worldis ill I have been going through stuff left by my…

  • poet may june july total msbLiSs 2 1 5 8 imahima 4 1 1 6 XanthochromeSum may 5 1 6 tim00 5 1 july 6 pallyatheart 1 3 1 5 SammyStorm 1 4 july 5 SunJun 2 1 1 4 …

  • Expired Green Card II W ell, I'm screwed... We went to court and the Immigration and Naturalization Service--which has been relocated from the Department of Justice to the Department of Homeland Security--see…

  • Expired Green Card Or why does life seem to be getting harder... I have been running around again, trying to get my life in order. Why do things have to be so hard? Father dies, addition of step son, and I mis…

  • Senryu Tsubame 川柳つばめ: August

    I am continually amused at the interest in Senryu poetry. Here's another poem by my father, although this one may not sit well with some of you...A single uchiwa fan is enough--newlyweds.First, the diction: uchiwa …

  • Senryu Tsubame 川柳つばめ: July

    Air conditionerAs summer hit its peak, I thought that "air conditioner" as a topic would arouse a lot of ideas. And I was right. There were a number of good ones, and all were very imaginative and evoked a sense of summe…

  • Announcement

    Senryu results for July will be posted tomorrow. So be sure to come by to see how you did. For those who did not participate but want to, please read the poems and my commentary. I welcome all my subscribers to participa…

  • Summer Vacation 1965 cont'd I n Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, there is an eerie description of an abandoned house, one in a city that has been destroyed by war. The house is fully automated for the conveni…

  • Venice Beach W hile I was in LA, I thought I'd take the family to somewhere they had never been. I know we went to LA for a funeral, but I needed to get out of the house and away from the reason why I was in to…

  • Home again J ust a quick note to let you guys know that I'm back and exhausted. I feel very lucky to have a brother who is willing and able to take care of the requisite mountain of paperwork involved with the …

  • Solemn Just a word of thanks to all of you for your kind and heartfelt comments. My father's funeral was very somlemn and dignified. I am still in LA and using my brother's computer, so I will make this short. I wi…

  • Reflections VI: Over the past year, I have read a number of Xangas that have announced birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and other milestones in our lives. Certainly, I must count my own among these. One milestone tha…

  • Reflections V: Summer Vacation--Over-heated A fter we left Las Vegas--remember, Zettonv, this is 1965--we continued on our journey and spent the night in a small town called St. George, Utah. We had made a few …

  • Reflections IV: Summer Vacation 1965 I n my last post, I wrote about the summer trips I took with my father, and they are legend in our family. When I bring the subject up, we all have our own particular storie…

  • Reflections III I n my last post, I wrote that I did not do many things with my father. And we didn't, at least not on a regular basis. However, one thing we did do virtually every summer was go on summer vacat…

  • Reflections II I' ve never been sure about the stereotypical Japanese father. If movies and TV shows were indications, they usually were either never home because of work, or they were silent and let their fist…

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