Herro Flom Japan

We're going to the US (Pennsylvania) in August to visit my family. I asked the boys what they want to do there.

I found this interesting fact in my Twitter stream yesterday morning. My first reaction was, “I call bullshit.” I’ve lived here for over 19 years and not once have I ever heard of condoms being sold door-to-door. In fact, I can’t see why they would be sold that way seeing as how every convenience store [...]

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It's the middle of the week already and the only extra masks I'm seeing are on service industry employees–convenience store cashiers and people working in restaurants mostly. I was expecting to see a repeat of what it was like in Osaka a few weeks ago where it looked like 9 out of 10 people were [...]

Last night while the rest of my family was at a soccer match, lightning struck about 100 meters from our house and blew out our TV, VCR, Wii, phone, wife's PC and fried the network card in my PC. Luckily the fridge, washer and air conditioners were spared. On the bright side, with nothing left [...]

No surprise at all, but the Flu of Death officially has arrived in the Kanto region–one case in Tokyo of a 16 year-old girl who recently came back from a mock UN in NYC, and another student in Kawasaki, west of Tokyo. Seems to me that constant bombardment of government and media-inspired panic of the [...]

These helpful suggestions come from a commenter at www.inforwars.com, where I like to get my news not only completely unfiltered by the media, reality or logic, but also completely unhinged. (Note: The original author wishes to remain anonymous, because he has irrefutable proof, which he's not at liberty to reveal at the present time, that [...]

When I was doing podcasts and vlogs, I wanted to be like Fred Rogers. Honest, open, accepting, and I wanted my message to be beneficial to others. But I lost my confidence.

1. It's been so long since I've recorded one that I have no idea where I put my microphones. If you saw what my bedroom looks like, you'd understand. The last time I did a podcast, I was 39 years old. I'm 41 now. 2. My parents listen, so the topics I can cover are [...]

I have two boys, 8 and 11 years old. Tony, the 11 year old, loves video games. He has a Sony PSP which he plays a lot. Far too often in my wife's opinion. He's constantly blowing his allowance on buying and selling games at a second hand store down the street from our house. [...]

Sorry for being so political all the time, but I'm genuinely obsessed with this election. Like, I need to check myself into a twelve-step program. If Obama wins, you'll read about me in the papers for exuberantly and singlehandedly overturning cars in Tokyo and setting them on fire. On the other hand, if McCain wins, [...]

Democrat Brad Sherman of California last week said on the floor of the House of Representatives that "someone" (he won't say exactly who) threatened that if the House didn't pass the revised Wall Street bailout bill, the US could be facing martial law. Whoever threatened martial law isn't bluffing. As you may know, on October [...]