Kyklops

Coming, as I do, from a relatively fun-loving country (make your pitiful attempts at jokes here...!), I have to say that there is one Japane...

James Brown has died. I guess people will argue about James Brown, the man. There can be no argument about James Brown, the artist.

There's no way I can top Eli's choice for a Christmas music video, so I won't even try. Here's Ozzy and Jessica Simpson: Ha...

There's really not much out there these days for guys like me who long for new bands with that "classic" rock sound. The last ...

Can you remember your first face to face encounter with Santa? There's a good chance that, unlike most kids who were happy to meet Santa...

[Note: I'm truly sorry about the poor quality of the photo on the right. You see, for one thing it was taken with my cell phone. For ano...

[Anyone in Japan has seen this before. It's the name of a "recycle shop" (a second-hand store).]

At Christmas time the Japanese like to eat something called "Christmas cake". This cake is basically a sponge cake covered with wh...

Few (if any) of you know that I used to enjoy the lofty status of a rock drummer. That's right, I wasn't always a lowly university ...

Thanks to a well-placed link from James at Japan Probe , my "Santa" post generated more page hits in two days than I usually get i...

Now that the horror of it all is a couple of days behind, me I guess I can talk about it a bit... One of the shitty things about living in J...

It's not like we really needed it or anything, but... Another reason not to have unprotected sex? Don't forget your shower cap... [I...

Regular visitors may have noticed that I haven't been posting much Japan-specific stuff lately. There are a number of reasons for this, ...

Damn, I could really use a smoke right now. Quitting smoking sucks. I'll stick with it, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else. ...

Via Chez , a very funny video. Maybe not everyone has the same sense of humor as me (or Chez), but I laughed so hard and uncontrollably at t...

2005 Re-issue of an unheralded 1970 classic, with three bonus tracks. I can't say enough about how much I like this album. It was all I ...

Apparently, just as I've completed my 7th smoke-free week, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has launched an " anti-smoking wonder pill ...

Sam [ Samuel Z. Arkoff ] once said he could come into work and make up movie titles out of thin air, and many times a picture was sold based...

Sorry, folks, the real world is intruding on my blogging life again. For your, um, viewing pleasure, I give you two birds, a bat, and a dork...

This must be seen to be believed. A Black Sabbath cartoon...