I still get a kick out of reading about reunions between members of CoCo and ribbon.

I came across this latest one on Matsuno Arimi's blog, cross posted at Miyamae Maki's site.  Ohno Mikiyo makes three!  Otomejuku Sanjou!

Note: Arimi's photo was zoomed and has more detail; however Makibo's image reveals a small figure lurking about Mikiyo's legs.  ( Read more... )

Let me properly label this screed:

***SPOILER ALERT***

***RANT ALERT***

***IF YOU LIKED "JIN" THEN PLEASE LEAVE THE ROOM ALERT***


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I never thought there would be a day when Bill Simmons would embrace baseball again,  He was a total lackey for the NBA and NFL, dissing MLB as a game fading in popularity and maybe relevance.  You can imagine my outrage -- I bought his goddamn compilation book of Red Sox columns.

I was also offended by his lack of regard towards progressive ( Read more... )

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I saw the "Hitachi Tree" for the first time this past Friday at Moanalua Gardens. We stood there and we saw that tree.


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You only have one chance to make a first impression.  Well in one case I had two.

Over a decade ago I had the pleasure of going to karaoke with a bunch of co-workers, almost all of them from Japan.  For some of them, karaoke was perhaps their only opportunity to have a drink, relax and lift a veil and show a sillier side of themselves.  There's not ( Read more... )

Something I've been fiddling with for the last few months and only taken out of private status.  My new Twitter handle: @kikaidablog.  Because I just don't want to actually WRITE, just blab.  Isn't that the whole point of Twitter: MICRO-blogging?

Anyway, for those of you who "get it" here you go.  For those uninitiated in the world of Seventies TV ( Read more... )

Read this on a blog this morning: if they remade "Back To The Future" today, Marty McFly would only go back to 1980.

Self-evident, yes.  Still, this makes me feel ooooooold...

Originally posted on saburo.vox.com

This clip from "The Big Show" with Patrick and Olbermann is over three (3) years old and still manages to crack me up...


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Copied and pasted from a message board thread.  Essentially the first 25 that came to mind.

The Beatles   Please Please Me
Chiaki Naomi   Kassai
The Clash   Death Or Glory
CoCo   Naze?
The Cure   In Between Days
Downtown Boogie-Woogie Band   Kaimono Boogie
Finger 5   Kojin Jugyou
Fuji Koichi   Let's Go, Rider Kick!
Fukuyama Masaharu   Melody
Ishikawa Rika ( Read more... )