Archive for February, 2009

T.M. Revolution, cont.

Update on the T.M. Revolution concert.
Quick Summary: I didn’t go
Longer Not Summary:
After finding out about this, I went down to the conbini at 2:30 in the morning to see if I could buy tickets. It ends up that they don’t sell tickets on the day of the performance (I think they stop the day before).
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TM Revolution

Update is at T.M. Revolution, continued

Original post:You have got to be kidding me.
I happened to be watching TV when a commerical for TM Revolution came on.
He’s playing in Fukushima.
Tomorrow afternoon.
Quite literally just down the street from my apartment.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s too late to buy advance tickets, so I’m going to show up tomorrow and see if there [...]

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Unicyclist on the News

About three months after I arrived in Japan I got a call from one of my friends who works at the Fukushima International Association. He had apparently received a call from one of the local news stations who had seen a foreigner riding a big unicycle around, and they wanted to do a news story [...]

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President of Black People

Right now for the second graders we’re studying comparative adjectives. As a warmup for the class one of the teachers made a true/false quiz about Obama. It began innocently enough.
1. Obama is taller than I am.
Nothing wrong with that.

2. Obama is the youngest American president.
Nothing wrong with that either.

3. Obama thinks that basketball is more [...]

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