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  • Senryu February O kay, CaptainGaijin, I put the word in bold so you can hurry your way to another site of your choosing. Cuz, here's another senryu post. I'm talking about senryu in class today so as I was jott…

  • Is it only me? X anga was supposed to be down for some maintenance, apparently, but since its been up, I have been having a heck of a time trying to write things down, or visit other sites. I get "Found a bug" …

  • Senryu Tsubame 2004

    The top scorer last year was a young Korean man living in St. Louis. I think he's an engineer of somekind, something that just blows my mind. How can an engineer have the sensitivity of a poet? Hahahhaha. Just kidding, o…

  • Senryu Standings 2004 H ere are the final standings for all subscribers who participated in 2004. The score is based on a 5 point system. 5 for “V Ten, 4 for ’n Chi, 3 for l Jin, 2 for ŽO‹q Sankyaku and 1 for …

  • Update I think most have picked up on the meaning of my poem below. I refer to the ribbon stickers that you see on the back of many cars these days. The are displayed as a way to support our troops. By using the word "w…

  • Senryu Tsubame ì–ö‚‚΂ߋáŽÐ: December And the winners are... T he pool of poems were fewer than any previous salon. Perhaps December was a busy time for everyone, or maybe some are growing tired of composing…

  • Senryu Tsubame ì–ö‚‚΂ߋáŽÐ: December S eeing as it was near Christmas when I presented the topic, I was wondering if anyone would totally disregard this and pick out an image from left field. Well, I must ha…

  • Thanks for the memories O kay, that's actually the theme song for Bob Hope, but it seemed appropriate for me today, having learned of the death of Johnny Carson. To many younger than 25, he is probably just a v…

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  • Growing up J-Town #JT-080 B ut I think that my classmates going to D-Land obliged Mom to trust me a bit more than she would have wanted. She couldn't deprive her son completely from tasting some level of indepe…

  • First Snow S ometimes I wonder if I should feel guilty. While there seems to be such devasation around the world, I--and my Northern VA neighbors--have enjoyed a very mild winter, even though I have spent a goo…

  • Growing up J-Town #JT-070 B y the 8th grade, I was old enough to be trusted to roam the city on my own. During the previous summer, a few classmates like Tatts and Rhubarb went to Disneyland on their own. They …

  • Misadventures of Stash: Epilogue T he title, "Misadventure of Stash" is a bit misleading. I'm sure that none of my former bandmates would approve of such a title. But many of the things we did were reckless, st…

  • Misadventures of Stash 2 I never viewed my life as special. I went to school, got a degree, and now teach Japanese in college. Most people I meet view me as just another academic whose head is buried in his boo…

  • Misadventures of Stash I 've been talking about my memories of J-Town for almost two weeks now, and it is a memory that is close to the heart. I will continue later about my adolescence and early adulthood as w…

  • * The paragraph I'm reciting is toward the end of this post. Growing up J-Town #JT-061 D ad suggested a hamburger but my eye caught something I had never heard of before. "What's a clubhouse sandwich?" I a…

  • Growing up J-Town #JT-060 T he Sugar Bowl Cafe was on San Pedro inside the Taul Building. It was owned and operated by Japanese but the fare was mostly American. I only went there a couple of times so my memory…

  • Growing up J-Town #JT-050 C onfections were not the only thing Dad got for his meetings. On special occasions, he would get box lunches, usually sushi at a small place called Matsuno Sushi. It was nothing like …

  • Growing up J-Town #JT-040 M y first memories of J-Town are indeed of Nisei Week. Well, they aren't really memories or recollections. They are more like flashes of memories interwoven with old photos and the con…

  • We Are A fter learning of the death of a close friend, followed by my bout with bronchitis, I had taken off the song that I had been playing, "We Are" by Do As Infinity. I know there are those who don't like…

  • Growing up J-Town #JT-030 M y Dad's death and funeral coincided with Nisei Week, the signature festival for Japanese American's in the LA. Every August since 1934, except for a few years in the 40s during the w…

  • Growing up J-Town #JT-020 J -Town is now an empty shell of what it once was. Portions of the area reek of decline. On the north side of First Street between Central and San Pedro, there is a row of make-shift…

  • Growing up J-Town #JT-010 I n the summer of 2004, Dad died. Mom had passed on two years earlier in 2002, and now, there is really no compelling reason for me to return to Los Angeles. My brother still lives in …

  • Resolutions I was so out of it this week that I didn't even know what illness I had. But my mind has cleared up a bit and I've been getting myself in order. I was straightening out the area around my bed and fo…

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