Herro Flom Japan

Dear regular readers, commenters, watchers and listeners, Isn't it about time we got to know each other better? Now that you know what my family and I look like, I'd really like to you look like. Seriously. I mean it. I read all your comments but have no idea who the heck you are. Links to [...]

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There's a definite pattern to events when Oliver and I meet up. We eat till it hurts. We drink till we're about to burst at the seams. I fall asleep outside of Koga station. Oliver has a superpower I wish I had: the ability to strike up a conversation with anyone, and optionally get them [...]

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Oliver, a 19 year old podcast listener from the UK who's trekking around Japan for a few months, stayed over at our house last night. Our boys were really, really excited to meet him. All three slept on the living room floor, but not before spending at least an hour in the dark making all [...]

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Bill O'Riley, America's favorite frothing-at-the-mouth rabid, paranoid, reality-impared, sexually harassing pervert, recently declared war on the Daily Kos blog. It's a long, fascinating story that shows just how powerful and influential citizen journalists have become. Here's the short, incomplete version: O'Riley has been slagging Daily Kos on his show something fierce, because Kos had something [...]

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I bought a 30GB iPod yesterday to replace the one I lost. I also bought a new pair of Sennheiser CX 300 earbuds ($40 and they're the best I've ever owned). With the store points I collected from that purchase, I picked up an expensive and beautifully crafted and designed leather case for a mere [...]

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