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This advertisement was in the Guardian newspaper today. It’s a very clever, funny and fast response to the Korean flag mistake at the Olympics. If it was a mistake. If you can’t see which flag it is you need some new glasses!
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Talking the talk | The Japan Times Online. This is a very interesting article by Mark Schreiber about the argot used by Japanese taxidrivers. I’ve written before about goroawase and Japanese slang in http://mooninthewater.net/aikido/2012/05/28/tokyo-sky-tree/ and http://mooninthewater.net/aikido/2012/06/06/samurai-how-many-days-in-a-month/. photo: Tokyo Taxi by Altus Wilder
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Do not plan for my return. General Takamichi Kuribayashi, of Nagano, writing to his wife I just got back from sword training in Nagano. Nagano is in the Japanese Alps. The winter Olympics were held there in 1998. It is … Continue reading
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Shochugeiko: Training conducted during the hottest months of the summer in order to cultivate physical and mental strength, a Kodokan tradition since 1896. Kodokan New Japanese-English Dictionary of Judo It’s 35 degrees Celsius today in Tokyo – 95 degrees Fahrenheit. … Continue reading
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The Roman Road runs straight and bare As the pale parting-line in hair Across the heath. And thoughtful men Contrast its days of Now and Then, And delve, and measure, and compare; Visioning on the vacant air Helmeted legionnaires, who … Continue reading
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at ease talking or remaining silent moving or staying still serene even when greeted with sharp weapons Yoka Genkaku, The Song of Enlightenment If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs Rudyard Kipling, If This … Continue reading
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Designing 007: James Bond’s style celebrated in Barbican exhibition | The Guardian Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront … Continue reading
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Londons East End: From haven for gangsters to Olympic showcase – World News Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement’s. You owe me five farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin’s. When will you pay me? … Continue reading
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Current Exhibition Page | AnnenbergSpaceForPhotography.org. Looks like a cool exhibition. 23 June – 7 October 2012. Annenberg Space For Photography, Century Park, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, California. photo: The Jam – Ian Dickson – 1977 from Il … Continue reading
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If you don’t believe in magic you might want to stop reading this now. I’m not talking about the Magic of an Aikido Throw. The magic I saw when I saw my teacher Asoh Sensei in his seventies effortlessly tossing … Continue reading
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I’ve written about a time travel movie before in time takes. I saw another ‘time slip’ movie recently. This one didn’t sound very promising. A time travel movie starring a member of an aging boy idol pop group. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi … Continue reading