When you can’t be in Hong Kong where you should be, what do you do? Get dragged by the S.O. to an antique market of course. Which except for the lack of drunken female company is not really so bad. This market is actually a street sale in Tennocho which
Author: Skippy-San
Speaking of a dialogue about race…….
There is a good one to be found here. If you don’t laugh at least once-you have been to too many diversity training seminars.
Continue readingA splash of cold water to the face.
That Uncle Jimbo and the other rah, rah, war without end-amen, cheerleaders need to hear. Except they would not listen to it. Or worse yet, simply accuse the writer of disloyalty to the nation. Because some people seem to love Arabs-more than they care about Americans: America’s responsibility for the
Continue readingWhere I should be…
Versus where I am probably going to. For the 8th year in a row-I am not at the Hong Kong Sevens. And others are. There is no justice in the world. However if you wonder what it is I see in Hong Kong-and why I am desperate to take up residence
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Kinyoubi wa koko ni kitte itadaite-arigatou gozaimasu! Thank God its Kinuyoubi (Friday). And you know what that means. S.O. is out. I’m stuck here sorting through boxes. Listening to some golden oldies with the volume turned up as loud as I can get away with: I saw these guys in
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Wistfully, with the resigned sadness that comes from confronting a decision that comes down to what you have to do weighed against what you want to do-I have been going through all my stuff in preparation for the upcoming move. ( Destination TBA-but probably back to the land of my
Continue readingRemember what happened to Tiger Woods…..
After he got married. He went into a slump for a while. Rumor had it that the Swedish model was sapping all of his strength. So if the Yankees tank this year you will know why: SURPRISE, Arizona – New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui will marry a 25-year-old former
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Is pretty boring as it turns out: YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa — A credit card in the name of a U.S. sailor is the only material link to his possible involvement in the slaying of a taxi driver here last week, police said. Apart from the credit card belonging to the sailor,
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I went out for a run this morning. Today was a beautiful spring day-still not really warm-but not cold either. Exactly as predicted by the Japanese Agencies the Sakura started blooming on 23 March. How they can figure that out is beyond me, but they are 99% right. The blooming
Continue readingToo funny to resist……..
Should not post this. Must resist the urge to do so. “No Bluto’s right! This calls for a really stupid and infantile act-and we are just the guys to do it!” Good Evening Americans. I am Al Gore and as you know I invented the internet. Now it has come
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