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My family and I took a trip south down the coast of Miyazaki yesterday. Some pics (click to enlarge):

Continuing from the previous post, here are some torii in black and white (click to enlarge):

A torii is a gate found at the entrance of a Shinto shrine. Tsuno Shrine has several of them (click to enlarge):

This didn't seem to be an ordinary waiting room in an ordinary dentist's office. For one thing, they didn't have any magazines. ...

I've never really considered Bob Dylan to be a "proper" rocker (unlike, say, Neil Young, who's always had the stink of roc...

I'm not exactly sure how it's come about, but this blog is clearly beginning to look like a "photoblog". It's been wee...

[h/t: Sivacracy ]

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Cooler than Star Wars because it's, like, real ... Nice work, JAXA . [h/t: Pink Tentacle ]

Just some random (perhaps somewhat "minimalist") pics. Click to enlarge.

This past Sunday I went with my wife and daughter to visit the in-laws in Tsuno (about an hour's drive north of Miyazaki). It's a p...

You know, all these vending machine pics (except one) have been taken within one kilometer of my condo. I'm just getting started... (Cli...

I often find myself in the same argument: "The reason," I say, "that you don't like death metal is that you haven't h...

Imagine if writing were like music: I think I could do a pretty good Dostoevsky cover, or Camus...

Apparently somebody says "fuck" on Deadwood (season 3) 1.73 times per minute , slightly fewer times than the 1.76 "fuck per ...

I'm afraid I have nothing to say. Here are some pics I took this past summer in Nova Scotia (click to enlarge):

Apparently a big chunk of the universe has gone missing . I wonder if that's where all my ideas went...

There have been mild rumblings and protestations to get a better look at what's inside these vending machines. What manner of product is...

Here are some carp . (Click to enlarge.)