Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Anal Sex According to the Word of God

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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Rolling the Dice

Really, this is a post for Bob. I'm reading this book all about quantum computers, learning all about bits of information and how they are processed, the difference between free energy and entropy, and the physics of the Big Bang. It's interesting, but it also has me wondering "why am I reading this book?" Until I got to page 50, when the author writes, "Every roll of the quantum dice injects a few more bits of detail into the world." The author, Seth Lloyd, is talking about chaos theory and the butterfly effect on the creation of pretty much everything. But what does it make me think of? An old joke I had with Bob about almost shitting your pants when rolling the mexican dice. I'd like to think of the quantum dice as an amplification of the mexican dice (a crazy cousin if you will), but with a better chance of getting something a little less noxious.

Friday, January 19, 2007

All Hell Breaks Loose

Some of you may not know this, but it has been snowing in Texas. We've actually had some pretty bad weather. Nalyd even called me to see how I was coping with "Ice Storm 2007." He's such a thoughtful guy. As you can see in the picture, there isn't much snow, but in Texas, this is enough to get 25 car pileups on the freeway and close schools and businesses. It's so excellent to see people freaking out like this!! It makes me hope for more snow! At least enough to do a proper snow angel.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Starchild


I spent New Year's Eve Day reuniting with my cd collection from 5 years ago, mainly my Parliament cd. So when looking for goodies about the whole Parliament-Funkadelic story, I found these photos at itineratesurfer.com, which has some pretty interesting stuff. I had no idea there was a Parliament comic book, but let me just say that some of these photos freak my shit out.

Saturday, January 06, 2007

Bo Gumbos


About two years ago, I went to this live show with T and Esan in Shibuya. I didn't know anything about it except it was a tribute show and our friend Nobu, who sings for this band called The Privates, would be performing. Nobu is super fun, and has a great idea about how cicadas are really aliens, so I thought it might be fun. I had no idea, I was going to a tribute concert for Donto, the singer for a band called the Bo Gumbos, who in my opinion revolutionized Japanese rock music. I had never heard any of these songs before, and I was dancing, and sometimes even crying along with them. I think I fell in love with these songs not just because the music was fun and danceable, but because they were simple and I could understand them. I was listening to them again last night, because it's about time for another Soul of Donto concert, and I heard this lyric that I had always liked, "Hoshii mono wa itsudemo, tooii kumo no ue," or "the things you want are always on top of a far off cloud." I love that. And it's also great juxtaposed with the song begging a girl not to turn around because her face ruins her perfect ass.

Friday, January 05, 2007

No!! They'll ruin all our fun!!

I used to think it would be a great job to correct all the bad English in Japan. I would have this business card that I could just hand out anytime I saw a mistake, and since there were so many, I would be rolling in the yens. I guess I could still do that if I wanted to work for the Beijing government.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/world/16390021.htm

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Oink

It's the year of the pig in China; the year of the inoshishi, or wild boar in Japan. Last year, on a trip to Izu and Shizuoka, me and the Mimie-channers all went to a place called Inoshishi Mura, or Wild Boar Village. It was great! We got to gamble on wild boar races, pet goats, and eat hotpot made with wild boar meat. Yummy! They even gave me a free wooden wild boar doll so I could make my own races at home. But now that my luck is at steak, I'm wondering if that feast was a wise move. I think I'll carry my good luck charm around with me just in case.