joined on 01/01/07
last updated 01/01/07
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about me
An American writer/translator living and working in Japan for nearly a decade.
[Japanese Culture] The Kancho Club (or The Buttplug Blues)
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Japanese children of elementary school age have a weird fascination with trying to stick their fingers up unuspecting rears. (My wife says she believes it's the reaction they get that spurs them on.) It's more than a little disturbing and even mor...
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Hardboiled Haiku
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There seems to be a prolific amount of haiku and tanka on several of the other online networking communities I am a part of. So I thought I would try my hand with a unique perspective... hardboiled! For all you grrlz-n-gunz lovers out there.
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Making Connections
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Being a new member of the community, I filled out my interests section and then went to work exploring which Tribe members had similar interests. There were about a trillion people with similar tastes, not a complete surprise. So instead of adding...
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Fiction and Comics
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Since I can remember, I have always dug reading. As a boy, I would sit in my room for hours on end and read and read and read. I preferred it to going outside and playing. And though I did plenty of that as well, I have often, throughout my life, ...
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Japanese children of elementary school age have a weird fascination with trying to stick their fingers up unuspecting rears. (My wife says she believes it's the reaction they get that spurs them on.) It's more than a little disturbing and even more uncomfortable.
To the other expats like myself who have had the misfortune of experiencing it, it is most annoying, especially when you always encounter the one boy in the class who just doesn't get it when you tell him to stop. It's not a casua...
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There seems to be a prolific amount of haiku and tanka on several of the other online networking communities I am a part of. So I thought I would try my hand with a unique perspective... hardboiled! For all you grrlz-n-gunz lovers out there.
MUZZLE FLASH BALLET
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Muzzle flash ballet
Night autumn rain and bone chill
Spilling blood my own
DANGEROUS DAMES
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Expensive slim curves
Winter vixen steals my heart
Bullets and hard cash
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Being a new member of the community, I filled out my interests section and then went to work exploring which Tribe members had similar interests. There were about a trillion people with similar tastes, not a complete surprise. So instead of adding the complete database, I select a few people, some random for diversity, some purposefully because they had more similar interests than others. In then end, I hope to pick up as many contacts as possible. I hope I haven't broken any unwritten rules ...
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Since I can remember, I have always dug reading. As a boy, I would sit in my room for hours on end and read and read and read. I preferred it to going outside and playing. And though I did plenty of that as well, I have often, throughout my life, read into the wee hours of the morning. Many times I would awaken to find my book somewhere on my person or on the floor.
Sometime in high school, I simultaneously discovered comics (thanks to my mother who bought me a cartload of Indiana Jones co...
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* The Short Stories Club *,
Anime,
Anime Artists,
battle angel,
CREATIVE WRITING,
Creative Writing Critique,
CULT FILMS,
Cyberpunk,
Cyborg Ninja Fembots: The Res'erection,
FUTURISTIC SKETCH TACTICS,
Go - The Oldest Game,
GRAPHIC NOVELS,
Gyniod,
Japan,
Japan Swap,
JET Programme - Teaching in Japan,
Manga,
New Japanese Cinema,
OPi8,
Pink Geisha,
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