June 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
Reading diet
I’ve been an avid reader for as long as I can remember. Can this be a bad thing?
When I went to the ashram, I didn’t have a good access to the internet. I caught up with all of my old websites at the cafe. Immediately, I felt an intense irritation in the middle of my forehead.
I came back from Iwate recently. No internet, just volunteering. I read some websites online. Immediately, I...
WatchThe garbage island in the center of the North Pacific Ocean.
September 2010
1 post
For ALTs: The quick and easy guide to signing up...
Any ALT, or non-ALT foreigner in Japan should try to enter at least one race.
With many opportunities to run distances from 3k to a full marathon in Japan,
it’s foolish to not enter at least one race. But how do you do it? After reading this,
you should be able to register for practically any Japanese race through runnet.jp
What’s runnet.jp?
Runnet.jp is a running megasite....
July 2010
5 posts
Only in Night Terrors
It’s summer season at school. I’m going to China in August 9. Until then, I’m doing club activities at school and having a lot of downtime. In between web surfing and studying Japanese at my school, I remembered this little gem I did in college.
Radio drama download after the cut.
Only in night terrors was one of the radio experiments I had during the last year at my college...
ALL JAPANESE ALL THE TIME
Bucolic wisdom or stop slagging seeds silly city slickers
It takes time to get things done, but I see so many people
who wind up in the same place year after year.
There’s been times when I’ve worked really hard with no
good end in sight, no immediate reward, and feeling
absolutely miserable only for things to turn out ok in
the rearview.
Over the last year, I’ve...
Katsuura Road Trip
Last week, I got an ETC card. With this bad boy, you can go almost anywhere in Japan on the highway for only 1,000 yen during the weekends. It’s supposed to be very hard to get. Somehow, I was able to snag it on a whim in a shopping mall.
To celebrate, I went on a road trip to some friends to Katsuura.
Katsuura is a beach on the south-eastern tip of Chiba, or Japan’s nose(?)....
Togawa Jun
I had a good time at a kickboxing match one of my coworkers had in Tokyo, but I had some more fun beforehand.
I had a crazy conversation in the McDonalds by the arena, though. The McDonalds was a four-story tall hole in the side of a corner with a smoking floor in the middle of the building (and with the only bathroom). I took the steps to the fourth floor, really seeing an actual fog of smoke...
First post
Hey. My name is David. I live in Gunma-ken in Japan.
I’ll be using this space to experiment with an online space, and to post things in various media that I’m into.
Enjoy!