The S.O. is at an estate sale this morning. She awoke at the crack of dawn-the better to get stuff early. I rolled over with a muffled moan-and told her, "to have a good time! I’m sleeping in". Ah but once it was not so. A long time ago and in
Author: Skippy-San
Friday fun
Speaking of health care, here are some women who look pretty healthy to me! Natsuki is a Japanese gravure idol. Here she is sitting on the steps: And this is Kana Tsuighara: And if you really want to see some healthy people –go here! (NSFW!)
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Jeff Goldblum (Michael): Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can’t come. There are lots of reasons I read Hemlock every day. Now visiting the US, he’s penned another one: Hemlocks assemble in the clan’s Appalachian residence. Matriarch Lucy is sadly
Continue readingFishing for cats?
An unfortunate cat that fell into Tokyo’s Sumida River is saved by firefighters with a rescue net:
Continue readingThe difference between then and now……….
nihilism (uncountable) (philosophy) Extreme skepticism, maintaining that nothing has a real existence. (ethics) The rejection of all moral principles. (politics) (capitalized by protagonist Turgenev) A Russian anarchistic revolutionary doctrine (1860-1917) holding that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake, independent
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Gimmebreakman reaches 100 videos in his Japanese for Morons series. Check out the rack on the Wagamama girl!
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That the Philippines is still very screwed up: Regarding former Philippine President Fidel Ramos’ Aug. 14 article, "Cory Aquino’s legacy of enriched freedom": Cory Aquino was undoubtedly a kind, honest and unpretentious president, but she was ineffectual. To attribute "enriched freedom" to her is simply an intellectual exaggeration bordering on
Continue readingAn attitude of gratitude……
I recieved one of those Glenn Beck inspired diatribes in an e-mail today. About how the country was going to hell in a hand basket, Nazis were at the gates of Birmingham and the hoof beats of the Apocalypse were just around the corner. Please-can we just all take a
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Robert Novak is dead. And for that-we are that much the poorer. That Novak would hire a leg-man to go around Washington sniffing out news reflected the virtue at the heart of his work: His columns, while they resided on the op-ed pages, were built upon previously unreported facts
Continue readingAnd while you are over at You Tube…..
Check out Japanese-Filipina and voice actress Megumi Nakajima, a hot new star in the anime scene best known for her role as Ranka Lee in the hit series Macross Frontier, just opened her own YouTube channel. She hasn’t uploaded much yet, but if the viral success of her dance clip
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