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New Jerseyan, ex-skateboarder, cultural boundary crosser, Tokyo dweller, former blogger:

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I did it!!!

I got my score report today and I can now say that I've passed the 2nd level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. There is only one more level higher than this, which is the 1st level. They say ...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:31:00 GMT

cherry blossom forecast

If there's one thing I like about studying Japanese, it's the possibility that I will stumble upon completely new concepts, or ideas that I have never encountered in my English-speaking life. For exa...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:26:00 GMT

Slint reunion

Flying halfway around the world to see a band might seem a bit obsessive, but not when that band is slint. I will be arriving in ny on march 17th and leaving on the 24th and Ill be at the shows at Irv...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:39:00 GMT

no satisfaction?

Hirokazu Kore-eda's Wonderful Life (after life is the English version title) is a brilliantly thought out, sweet movie that portrays the memories people in contemporary Japan might choose to take with...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:06:00 GMT

Pencils

Upon returing to Japan at the beginning of this year, I was relieved to find that two of my colleagues who were vacationing on Phuket during the tsunami had safely returned. Not much later, I ran into...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:41:00 GMT

Pacific Overtures

I went to see this play at Studio 54 in NYC with my mom and sister in early January. We paid 50 bucks each and were stuck way in the back but the show was very good. A little background...this is a St...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:12:00 GMT

auspicious signs

I'm still playing around with myspace so there's nothing special here, except these votive tablets, or ema (`Gn) I photographed in a restaurant in Kyoto two summers ago...you can make what you will o...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Jan 2005 05:34:00 GMT