I was at Sensei's house one time, and his son, and some of his son's friends, were studying in the kitchen. Sensei asked my then-roommate and I if we would come downstairs so that the kids could try their English on us; we agreed. We went downstairs and answered their questions in our best slow, clear English-teacher voices. I don't remember most ( Read more... )

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"I'm beginning to think that Turners are a bit like jazz-- they must be experienced in person or not at all."
~me

xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOxMy hometown is beautiful. There's really no denying it. There are endless seas of green lawns, gracious houses, stately trees casting dappled islands of shade. There's ( Read more... )

I went to Tokyo over the weekend, and had a wonderful time.

Teh Tokyo Trip

( Fuji-san )

I happened across a very funny cartoon which does a lot to illustrate how Congress works . . . or perhaps doesn't. ;-)

xOxxOxxOxxOxxOxxOxxOxxOxxOxxOxxOxAmerica is a land of many people, and our names for towns, landmarks, and even states reflects that. It amused my shakuhachi sensei to no end that, on his last concert tour, as he traveled from ( Read more... )

She Tells Her Love Now, by Robert Ranke Graves

She tells her love while half asleep,
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:
As Earth stirs in her winter sleep
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.

majochan drew me a picture request . . . CYBERPUNK OMG. I so win at life ( Read more... )

( in which I talk about the recent election and Barack Obama, and which contains links to artwork addressing similar subjects as well as a few other things worth reading. )

First, courtesy of subsiding_leaf, a really cool clock.

I’ve actually been writing a fair amount lately, and thought I’d try to archive some of it here for reference. Since it seems a better idea than having them scattered all over tarnation as they currently are.

From the saiun_challenge community:

The Unseen Hand - pseudo-canon fic

Haunted - from my Demon Hunter AU

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The wonderful and inestimable azusachan immortalized our trip to the Osaka Comic City on Sunday on her livejournal. By the way, it totally was not my fault. We even arrived late, with a mere hour of the event to go, and everyone was packing up. I still managed to score some doujin portraits and a pin of the adorable cat at the bottom of azusachan's entry, though. ( Read more... )

Unpacking and packing at the same time, it's quite strange. BUT. We have internets!

And in honor of the occasion . . . jewelry designs! Um, for a project I'm working on, about which the less said probably the better. So I'll cut them for everyone's convenience and as a mercy to your poor eyes being subjected to my attempts at art.

( Possible Jewel designs for DJS )