Far East Cynic

Happy Holiday!

Yes it’s Martin Luther King day, but more importantly its my mother’s birthday! In the grand scheme of things that is more important to yours truly. Happy Birthday MOM! Subscribe in a reader

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Scooby dooby doo………

Iwao Takamoto passed away this past week. He was the creator of Scooby Doo and worked in the Hanna Barbera Cartoon empire for many years. Gwen Muranaka published this tribute in todays’ Japan Times: Click on the cartoon to read it better! I never realized ol Scoob was another product

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Fun things to do……

While being hungover and waiting for the Tsunami to hit. Yea you heard me right. For the second time in a couple of months the Tsunami alert went off. Big earthquake north of Hokkaido. Tsunami warning all up and down the west coast of Japan. So what seemed the right

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Urban Legends…………

There is a myth that goes around here in Japan that drinking sake does not leave you with a hangover. I’m here today to tell you that is not the truth. Drink enough of those little cups and you do get your ass kicked. Note to self: 15 cups of

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The train wreck……….

The one that is coming to an armed service near and dear to you. I have tried and tried to come up with some coherent line of thought about the Presidents speech-I can’t. To tell the truth, I don’t think he can either. All he knows that in his mind,

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Its all about marketing….

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Things that make my head hurt…….

It was a news filled day yesterday while I sat and slept the night away……. Lest there be any doubt about it, I am sick. Ergo this will be short. I will watch the Presidents speech tomorrow and with sufficient energy I’ll have some comment on it. Lets start with

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Predictable pattern

This is becoming an all too predictable pattern. Come home from work, go work out. Come home from the gym, eat dinner. 8pm fall asleep on the couch. Wake up go to bed at 9pm. Its got to change to something better……….. News to follow tomorrow. Subscribe in a reader

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Well, what do you know?

A Frenchman thinks that the Phibian and I are worth the reading…………..Good company for me to be sure. Click here to see for yourself! Good babes, too, on his site! What can I say, Vive le France!! Subscribe in a reader

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Life’s a beach………

He’s a real bunker man. Living in his bunker land. Making shots out of the sand, Impressing nobody……… If there was a bunker I was not in yesterday, I will be hard pressed to find it. Bad bounces you say? I got them. Shanked shots? Been there done that. The

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