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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Saturday, July 20, 2002 |
 Instead, I went to Mejiro for yakiniku. There were two men sitting next to me, and one of them- unusually!- asked if I minded him smoking. I said I didn't, and from that we got talking. Anyway, it turned out that they were (wait for it!) ultra right-wing mod-rockers! (They used the term Neo-Nazi of themselves...) Well, I was under the impression that this sort of right-wing Japanese person had a dislike of foreigners, but apparently I was alright, because they started buying me drinks. Can't complain!
Anyway, it turned out that they'd been to London twice, and on one occasion they'd gone to Wallsend! Well, this was hilarious in two respects: firstly, because they couldn't pronounce Wallsend, and so nobody in Britain could tell them how to get there; and secondly, because of the reason for their wanting to go to Wallsend in the first place: a pilgrimage to the main shop of Vivienne Westwood!
Anyway, my two drinks turned into five; and then they decided to go to karaoke. Neo-Nazis doing karaoke! Superb! (And to top it all, they liked Wham!) What an evening!- this almost ranks alongside the evening I spent talking about tooth enamel (I kid you not!) over a few beers with the local Shinto priest (in full garb, of course!).
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The fireworks festival in Ujina is always on Umi no hi, but, to be honest, I couldn't be bothered to go all the way into Hiroshima for it this year. I went last year, and when all's said and done, a fireworks display is a fireworks display is a fireworks display.
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Web articles worthy of mention...
An article in the Electronic Telegraph about the 2000th week of Top of the Pops. The ten facts at the foot of the article are especially interesting.
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Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
scraggly queen shrieks, sting
loveless ladybugs moaning
puddle imagines
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Today is Umi no hi- Marine Day. It's a national holiday, which of course has no meaning whatsoever since it falls on a Saturday...
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Updated: 8/1/03; 8:21:41 pm.
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