I missed the exact date by a week, but I’ve been updating this journal for a year now. This is probably my 4th or 5th online journal, but none have lasted for more than a month or two. I guess this one is different though since its my “in Japan” journal, and contains [...]
Entries from May 2005
Still There
May 16th, 2005 4 Comments
Teaching
May 15th, 2005 No Comments
Denver has some bold new teaching tactics that I think we all can learn from. I seem to remember things like this happening on a smaller scale (tape on people’s mouthes) but it was all in good fun and back then we didn’t know we could get rich by suing the school. How [...]
Happy!
May 15th, 2005 No Comments
In an effort to convince Kevay that they are in fact called Happy Sets not Happy Meals in Japan I went to the Japanese McDonald’s website. What I found was a treasure trove of mad cow induced insanity. It is perhaps also worth noting that his name is Donald, not Ronald in Japan. [...]
Cultural Accuracy
May 11th, 2005 No Comments
I will write more about this later. Suffice to say you can find out exactly why Japan is “soooo cool and so kawaiii” from that link.
Addition: I still don’t think I’ve saved up enough strength to properly tackle this beast but let me just say its nice to see some quality racism coming out [...]
Tags: Japan
Crapple Royale 2
May 5th, 2005 No Comments
Having just finished watching Battle Royale 2 I can confirm what you have already heard. It is a horrible movie. The first thing that should be known is the fact that the director died during filming. I’m not sure what percent of the movie was actually finished, but Kinji Fukasaku kicked off [...]
Tags: Battle-Royale-2 · Japan · Movies · reviews
Shut up and eat
May 4th, 2005 No Comments
This originally was born as an away message but I thought it was a little too elaborate to just toss out like that. I will say though that the main page of all this may be a little too much for dialup users. Click with caution.
This may save your life.
Some explanation as the [...]
