May 2010
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April 2010
2 posts
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firmuhment:
Right next to the “like” button, there needs to be a “hug” button.
March 2010
2 posts
So healthcare. I’m surprised and happy for you guys.
February 2010
4 posts
I am here before you to stand behind you to tell...
Matthew Galloway has charm and grace and cats (at least on the internet). Nick Douglas is “that guy who broke gawker” (at least on the internet). Really, what else is there to be said (at least on the internet)?
Choire Sicha: Pamphlet: "The Society for the... →
Front cover: “A Kill the Whites publication in association with BIMBOX.” 12 pages, year unknown (circa 1991-92) 1990!
Table of contents page:
From the introduction: “The truth is, SCAB exists. A giant multinational conspiracy with participants numbering in the millions, who thrive on…
This pleases me because it reminds me of the radical feminist zine i didn’t write in 1992, but...
January 2010
5 posts
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i know a man who is performing the world’s worst emotional striptease. what is revealed and what is hidden are the same, over and over again. he tells a story and it goes like this: “i am fucked up, but i won’t tell you why. i’m a head case. no-one is allowed to know me. i’m really fucked up. i don’t tell anyone why.” it is a boring story, but it works....
i rather wish i had taken a photograph of the sign at the laundromat in downtown kyoto that said “caution: your head”. because: yes.
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absurdism
shortly before i left japan, i worked in an office in osaka, helping put together a curriculum and materials for teaching kids throughout japan to speak english.as is usual with these things, every idea went through a ton of different commitees before dying horribly or being mutilated into an unrecognisable form. it was decided (by whom? who knows), that in the third week of march, all the...
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disguises
i had a friend who used to bring a harp to parties. it was a celtic harp, which is small for a harp but is not small. she would strap it on to the back of her bicycle and cycle to the riverbank where all her co-workers would be drinking cheap beer and letting off convenience-store fireworks.
bringing a harp to a party is not dissimilar to bringing a unicorn to a party.
every so often, one...
December 2009
7 posts
i have friends who show their respect for books by making sure their pages are never bent, their spines never cracked, their covers never sullied with coffee stains. me, i show my respect for books by sleeping with them in my bed, rolling on them, using them as coasters, integrating them into my life. i belive my way is best but it makes me a terrible person to lend a book to.
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so i killed this kid on facebook a couple of weeks ago. he was someone i had known for about 5 years as part of one of those communities that randomly develop from message boards. start off saying nasty things about celebrities, end up telling a bunch of pople you’ve never met more about your life than you tell your present friends kind of thing. i can’t be cynical about it: it has...
ken.ichi
i had his parents’ phone number and luckily he was still living there, so i could arrange to meet up with him: i hadn’t been back to nagasaki for a couple of years, so my hopes weren’t particularly high. and then when i met him, well, obviously i wished i hadn’t. he was looking strangely bloated and his hair was gelled and swept back into something that wasn’t a...
i lead a boring life punctuated by anecdotes. obviously this is a defensive measure, but for whom, and from whom?
supermarket series, part 3: the noticeboard at the supermarket once had a card on it stating “PERSONAL DRIVING SERVICE: straight, mature, male. honest, reliable, discreet”.
furthermore, my local supermarket has an aisle section marked “ambient beer”. which just confuses me.
my local supermarket has a sign up that says “avoid tempting thieves”. i find this pleasing.
February 2009
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January 2008
9 posts
big boobs, small pond.
i went to buy lingerie for my anniversary-of-going-out-with-my-boyfriend. i went to the one department store in this hick city, because i had seen some adorably-classy-yet-still-sexy silk underwear on display there. after half an hour i was damn near reduced to tears because IT DID NOT FIT ME. my bra size is 10D (32D if you’re american). you can’t buy sexy-yet-classy lingerie in this...
People are using their remote controls as remote...
“While everyone keeps waiting for interactive TV to arrive, it may have already snuck into American’s living rooms. A new survey conducted by Harris Interactive revealed that 66% of Americans use their remotes for basic interactivity. That’s everything from electronic programming guides, video on demand and digital video recordings to actual interactive experiences with shows or...
vision
i got contact lenses today after 1 year of wearing glasses. of course, that one year was 2001. i lost them at a bar somewhere and never bothered to replace them. now i can see clearly again. it turns out that people are ugly.
“i am sorry to have been unable to mistake time and to have come out by the thing...”
– random student, osaka
sign
there’s a door on my corridor with a sign on it that says “this door must be kept closed at all times.” this pleases me immensely
it is to my regret that i didn’t get a photo of cafe a.s.s. in takatsuki.
