Archive for: September 2007

 Good question!

But the answer is simple: when it’s a Japanese nashi.

Next question:  What is a Japanese nashi?

The answer is simple: it’s a Japanese pear, so deal with it, sister!

Oooh, and …

The times they are a-changin’… Besides being old enough to know better…and the vague name of Bob Dylan, I remember a time in Japan when you could call a riceball a riceball, in …

To celebrate my friend Teppei’s boythday (incidentally not from Brooklyn, but I love the accent!), we all trundled off to a little (or I should say BIG?) gem of a restaurant in Umeda’s Chayamachi called Cafe La Boheme.

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Everything in its right place.

And that’s never a bad thing in my books. I’ve got Germanic blood in me, for crying out …

Kyoto speaks of mystical temples, Kobe has its quaint finesse…while Osaka is just, well, no-bones Osaka, really. Never really been a city to write home …

What with the Fuji Rock line-up being a sorry state of affairs this year, thank the Maker for Samaa Sonikku Zero Sebun!! (^_^)

So how the devil was it? The answer …

 Slapbang in the middle of the city near to where I work, there’s this huge pedestrian crossing thingy-me-jig. Although there are nice zebra stripes painted on the road and flashing …