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…from Joao last Saturday evening. Yutaka (right) and his cousin Manabu (left):

Mewby and Me:

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It’s January 6th already – Twelfth Night no less – and time to take down the Christmas tree. Back to work the day after tomorrow – but still, only two more months till Spring vacation. (sighs -  thinks, “What an awesome job”) Here’s a couple of piccies of our Mewby at Shimogamo shrine last Sunday.

It [...]

Ha! Ghastly November is finally over! Actually I realised that part of my gloom last month was simply down to a lack of exercise. Catching a cold and feeling terrible kept me out of the gym for almost 3 weeks. When I got back in there I did exactly 6 squats and then immediately felt [...]

Saturday night was Joao’s 15th anniversary party. This party was much like other Joao parties. Riki and Nana were jumping about behind the bar.

Koji took his shirt off.

And I stole someone’s hat.

There was one notable difference this time though. After a long absence, Kageyan was back behind a bar.

Yutaka was snapping away with my camera [...]

Last Friday, Ted Taylor and I met up at Sarasa Kayuukoji for some old timey jazz and oishii beers. That’s a nice cafe with some very tasty nibbles of which we ordered …way too much.

We were there to see Sweet Strings… which turns out to be not one band but a label for a mixed [...]

Something very bad has happened to Deep Kyoto. If you try to look at it there’s a page of code you have to scroll through to get to the home page. But what’s worse (for me) is I can’t access admin – when I try I just get code. If anyone out there in the [...]

Last night the guys I teach in Osaka took me to a magic bar called Vernon’s where you can be entertained by a magician at your table. The main magician at the bar was a TV celebrity known as ムッシュ・ピエール or Monsieur Pierr whose shtick is that he pretends to be French and says tres [...]

The Daily Show ran this short piece last week on just how dumb and tantrum prone Sarah Palin is:

Basically the critics accuse her of being stupid, ill-educated and prone to tantrums. Sarah Palin has since hit back by calling them “jerks” and saying “it’s not fair“… thereby pretty much proving their point. Well, one thing [...]

I just tried out this GenderAnalyzer thingy. It uses artificial intelligence to find out if a blog is written by a man or a woman and apparently it usually works pretty well. So I tapped in urls for both this blog and for deepkyoto and do you know, in both cases, I’m a lass. Who [...]

Here’s what I’ve been up to lately:

Saturday October 4th: Went to see Randy Weston and Alex Blake at Kamigamo. That was an amazing night. Those two guys are no spring chickens but they play with all the mercurial energy of youth. Alex Blake plays his bass like a crazy man, and both of them are [...]