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I’m not sure, but I think there’s a lesson in here somewhere.
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011…but it’s better than drinking alone.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
which is still actually better than a lot of things, IMHO.
This is in one of the bars along the Takasegawa as it runs between Shijo and Gojo. Oh, man, if THOSE walls could talk.
…and the ship sails on.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011It was a nice sunny day here outside Kyoto. The early sakura are coming into bloom, and these ladies kept their regular game of tennis.
advantage in, apocalypse.
A bucolic enough setting.
Is this part of Japan safe? I don’t know. It looks and feels about the same as it did on March 10th, or last March…or every March I’ve lived here. I chat with friends and locals in the park, the birds sing, we remark on how the first sakura are coming out on schedule even though it’s been a cold winter.
Fox News says no place in Asia or the Pacific or West of the Ole Miss in the USofA is safe. The Japanese government had been saying come and take a swell warm dip in the onsen of Reactor 4…you’ll be fine.
Rich people stationed in Tokyo are private jetting it the H-E double toothpicks out of here. Panic or Prudence? Is this spot I call home far enough away…can we get far enough away any more?
I’ll let you know…
To survival!!!
CHEERS! and beers!!! for the New Years!! (poetic license with that last ‘s’ there.)
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
To a balls-out, bottoms-up sort of 2011 for us all.
(You too, Ichiro…you handsome devil.) This slugger spends more time on beer ads than on first base. And on Japanese TV they savour, sigh, pour, toast, lip-smack, tip and then slurp down all that yummy beer right on camera.
Mmm…that gets me thinking. I might just have one of these in the fridge right now. Lord knows I got work to do, but I’ll just duck out real quick to get one, and hustle right back, ‘cuz I finish what I star
The Premium Malts is THE PREMIUM!!!
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011To the end of the day and the beers that follow!
Peace Out!
“Heineken!? fuck that shit, Pabst Blue Ribbon The Premium Malts!”
Yeah…that’s the goods right there.
