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June 29, 2009
  • Saw the first part in the New Yorker but not really interested. R. Crumb's doing the Bible, or at least Genesis, and you can see what it's like on this French site.

  • The blue and the green is a perplexing optical illusion.

  • "Ponyo" is the new Miyazaki and previews in English are now available.



June 26, 2009



June 25, 2009
"People are already texting about it, remembering his greatest moments," said 17-year-old Delmar Dualeh.

Kathleen Magnaye of New York was at Los Angeles' Venice Beach when she received a frantic call from her boyfriend. She raced to Jackson's house with her 14-year-old sister to take photos.


from AP news, Hundreds of Jackson fans converge on hospital



June 24, 2009
Winding down at my Sunnyvale apartment, moving everything into the storage unit again, just like last summer -- although the plan is to hang around my parents' house, for July and most of August I'll have no fixed address. I'll miss this apartment, although it has some serious flaws. Getting a new one upon my return shouldn't be difficult, unlike a year ago there's For Rent signs all over the place, meaning a lower rent should be part of the deal, as well. Location Independent has information for those who'd adapt a nomadic lifestyle, useful even for part-timers like myself.



June 19, 2009 (updated)



June 15, 2009
  • One of the characters in this week's Straight Dope, Who made money in the 1929 stock market crash, was one Jesse Lauriston Livermore also known as the Boy Plunger. Both of those mention his marriage to Harriet Metz Noble, whose previous four husbands had all committed suicide... and then, just after Thanksgiving 1940, Livermore joined the club. Found some speculation (how could she get a date even after #2?) but not much else about this woman Cecil called the Black Widow.

  • A new gadget many will find useful -- a USB microwave.

  • If that image previous is unfamiliar, perhaps you've never seen Totoro? Could always check catbus in the wikipedia for more information
  • but it has no illustration. Remember, adults can't see it.



June 12, 2009
Asako Nekobusu photo
Asako took this picture and a few others when I had a little pancake luncheon the other day, the Japanese girls getting the full WaffleMeister experience with the old family sourdough recipe.



June 8, 2009
Spent many hours recently maintaining this site, including long-overdue updates to the top-level Miscellaneous and Prose/Stories pages (which should maybe be combined at some point, but not yet, and maybe never). A major task, now completed, was the addition of a local archive file of my big trip last summer, copied over from blogspot and augemnted with more photos, also implementing my father's suggestion of making it chronological rather than the customary web-log style of last post on top.

Standing around in Borders yesteray reading a report on "The Soul of Japan" in the current issue of Adbusters, #83. Unfortunately that article isn't available online but issue #81 had something else in the same vein, also by Roland Nozomu Kelts: Big In Japan, which concerns a newly-popular 1929 novel by Takaji Kobayashi called Kanikosen (or The Crab-Canning Ship.)

Also reading The Limits of Power by Andrew Bacevich after hearing him on "Forum" last week. No real info at that link except an MP3 of the entire interview, if you're so inclined. He clarifies ideas of my own, about how Reagan screwed up everything (although the mess we're in is really of our own making). We had a chance 30 years ago, but the masses had no interest in President Carter's suggestion that we tighten our belts and live within our means.



June 3, 2009



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