Its a gaijin thing. The Japanese do not have a tradition of Halloween per se. It is, like so many things here, just a marketing gimmick for the department stores. After all in a country that is at best only 10% Christian, how can there be an All Saints Day-which would
Continue readingGirls with guns.
Is a whole fascination thing I never understood. However there are some guys who just get breathless thinking about the idea of a girl toting an Uzi. Me? Its just another woman out there who now has a way to inflict yet more pain on men and in the process
Continue readingOnce more into the breach dear friends!
It is October 25th. And you know what day that is right? Incidentally, from looking at the news-there are Turks involved in both wars that I note in my previous postings for this anniversary.
Continue readingThe most dangerous thing in Bahrain……..
Is Sailors attacking Sailors. It is not anything else……in my humble opinion. Now granted, I was never stationed in Bahrain, but I spent more than my fair share of time there trying to get a building completed so we could give a select group of Sailors a decent place to
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A tasty dish of crow that is. Deborah , I’ll have my crow sauteed with mushrooms please…….. And as for the Tribe? Well, I guess the razors can go back on the shelf for another year. I’m a Cubs fan after all-I thrive on dissapointment…………. At least the Yomiuri Giants
Continue readingWhat’s on the menu……
A tasty dish of crow that is. Deborah , I’ll have my crow sauteed with mushrooms please…….. And as for the Tribe? Well, I guess the razors can go back on the shelf for another year. I’m a Cubs fan after all-I thrive on dissapointment…………. At least the Yomiuri Giants
Continue readingA little break…..
And a huge bit of begging. S.O. and I are going up to Nikko for an overnight-to watch the turning leaves and hopefully get me (and her) out of this simultaneous funk we are in before we kill each other. Can anyone help me figure out how to set content
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While I was out shopping yesterday I came across this little tome: The book opens well: Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering
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From George Bush’s playbook. If Congress won’t give you what you want-just ignore them. The new Prime Minister has drafted a new version of the Special Anti-terrorism law-the one that allows JMSDF oilers (unlike our navy properly manned by Sailors) to refuel coalition ships in the Indian Ocean. Kenji Yamaoka,
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The cartoon character I want to have sex with: That’s right. Lily Wong has returned to Hong Kong newspapers. It’s also got its own web site, so now blog readers can have something to read more interesting than Day by Day.(Which appears to be in hiatus). Particularly when you love
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