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  • When naming your kid...

    Paul, David, Dennis, Steven, Kevin, Bill, Richard. These are nice All-American names. Indeed, these are the names of my classmates as I was growing up in LA in the 1960s at a Japanese missionary school where all the stud…

  • Summer Rerun: The Yakuza and the wimp

    In the previous post, I had a little fun at the expense of an innocent passerby--I do not assign any ulterior motive to his actions. Well, in the interest of fairness and openness, I should reveal that I too have had my …

  • Male or female

    I just read a post by California Gal about her son. She posted a photo of her son and asked if he looked like a girl. He's a cute looking kid but still looks like a boy to me. But then, maybe non-Asians can't readily see…

  • Backward camel

    Holy moly! It's freakin' cookin' outside. It's 95 degrees, 45% humidity and feels like 102 according to weather.com. But I didn't need them to tell me. I feel like a roast cooking over a low heat. If it would only melt o…

  • Happy Halloween

    Halloween's coming.Halloween's coming.Ghosts and goblins too...It happened again... I was talking to M the other night right before bed. We were ready to go to sleep, just nonchalantly standing in front of each other abo…

  • Text Appeal, i.e. a Face Lift W/out Much Lift

    I was away from Xanga for quite a while. I mean, I would post every so often, when I had the time and was in the mood, but I it was just post and split--go back to work or to J-dorama or whatever. But I've been back now …

  • Early Halloween...

    I leave campus a little after 7 PM most days, take the Metro train to the last stop on the Orange line and walk home from the station around 8 PM. I used to take a short cut that went past a parking structure, then benea…

  • Your Favorite O-man Story

    Once, a couple of years ago, whonose wrote to me, telling that I should consider publishing some of my writing. I laughed thinking, who the heck would read it? Or better yet, who the heck would buy it? I have had a nu…

  • I Swear, It's Not Me

    It's embarrasing when someone thinks you cut a fart... guilty or not. *sigh* Every morning, I find myself rushing to catch up on things. The alarm goes off--or M nudges me to wake up--and it takes me 15 to 20 minutes to …

  • You know you're getting older...

    Ever since I turned 50, I've been obsessed with it. I think I'm truly going through some sort of mid-life crisis. No, I have no plans to buy a Corvette, although that's mostly because I don't have the money... I presume …

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