michael lambe

The year and a decade (arguably) is coming to an end! Busy busy! Time to clean up the house and sweep out all the corners! It’s been a good year for me – I got to work with these two chaps (Chris and Andrew)

- and enjoyed the experience greatly (they are sirs of the kind [...]

The humble wooden spoon. Or is it? In the English speaking tradition, we have come to regard the wooden spoon as something so common, so cheap, and ordinary that it is commonly given as a real or notional prize for losers.
However, perhaps there is more to it than that. As that great fount of knowledge [...]

Wind farm kills Taiwanese goats

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65%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?
Funny. I thought it would be more than that.
Last Tuesday, we went to see Benjamin Button. Apparently it’s front runner in the Oscars. I wonder why. I think the best review I’ve seen of this movie came in the form of this parody video. It is indeed similar to Forrest [...]

What’s been happening? My job-hunting continues… Last night’s music event with Yamahara-san and Yoshida Koichi at Zac Baran was  a blast (a video will be posted later)… And it was nice to meet a couple of Deep Kyoto readers there, Xavier and Patrick… I finally watched the new James Bond Quantum of Solace a while [...]

There’s a fresh post up in Deep Kyoto’s ongoing Irish pub series tonight:
Mc Loughlin’s.
This will probably be my last post before Christmas. Tonight I’m going to Luka’s birthday party which should be interesting as I haven’t seen him since Pagode closed down a year ago. He’s holding it here, which I’m happy about because [...]

First off here’s a link to the latest Deep Kyoto masterpiece I am working on. Earlier this month David Ewen and I went on a five stop pub crawl of Kyoto’s Irish pubs in search of the elusive craic. I intended to write one article detailing the pub crawl while comparing all five pubs and [...]

A little bit of genius from Mel Brooks and Marlo Thomas:

From “Free To Be… You And Me“.

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The current issue of Kyoto’s CF magazine is themed around the joys of cycling and thus, as I have a rather spiffy mountain bike (thanks Helen!) and I’m friends with Taga-san at KTCP there’s a picture of me in there too, cheesing one of my cheesiest of cheesy grins. CF (not a bad little [...]

I am, finally (if temporarily) on top of my scarily high mount-o-marking, and so I am sipping pink lemonade (the summer drink of choice!) and enjoying Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye.
Today, I met a new private student who seems like a good egg. She’s a beginner level student which I prefer because a) you [...]