2010年 08月の記事
Renovations of an …
I’ve been helping the crew with the renovations of the nagaya. It’s been good, satisfying labour and I’ve learnt some skills that should hopefully come in useful. Mainly I’ve been involved with the plastering or shikkui (lime plaster). The shikkui was applied to boards (which replace the bamboo frame and mud walling) in two layers. [...]...
2010-08-31 |
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Somen, Udon, Soba,…
Visiting the Yamao san’s for lunch. The grandchildren had to come up with a summer project for school and they decided to create nagashi somen. Nagashi somen is noodles flowing down a bamboo gutter. The family harvested the bamboo that morning creating the gutters and all the tableware themselves. Yamao san [...]...
2010-08-31 |
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reitoshokuhin
drive chicken, drive i’ll trade you the keys to the hot pink Lexus for the wings you never used itadakimasu ...
adorable peel
how can a peel be adorable? well, i usually adore things that appeal to me…and peeling the skin off of an orange is the same as opening the door to a love hotel basking in the shade of a dead neon palm tree. ...
if you started cou…
that’s assuming you sleep at least 8 hours per night. you do, don’t you? oh…you sleep 12? that’s too much. you need more exercise. those that are born at night, get a head start on the others. except for those that are born feet first… ...
sand paper bingo c…
billions of invisible particles are passing through your body as you read this. they are trying to catch the train that has yet to be designed. the waiting room will always be one stop ahead. ...
2010-08-26 |
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touch of out
chickens and their kin have been extinct for centuries, so when I visited the caboose to see my baby, I didn’t immediately recognize the distinct smell of ammonia and wet feathers associated with a fowl coop. it took me a month to carve the wishbone out of my DNA. ...
civilized seeds
Dear Architects of the World, Tell your daughters and sons to marry a farmer. Love, Society ...
she saves her used…
“this is what we are going to talk about after the news program finishes.” “what? we already talked about all that stuff this morning.” “we need to review the pertinent statistics before bedtime.” “dad, i just don’t see how feasible this whole business about ignoring time is…i mean, if you really believed in all of this conceptual mumbo-jumbo, [...]...
2010-08-23 |
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Polished Rod
The annual ‘Polished Rod’ event (or Bouzuki) in Kamiyama occurred a couple of days ago in the season known as O-Bon. It’s a practice that has continued since…I’m not sure exactly when, but a long time ago. Back then a group of villagers (almost always the men in the village) used the polished rod to [...]...
Lots of fireworks …
Lots of them. Reminds me of Something like Polke. The combination of somen in a hamburger. The taste of rosehip jam. Sweetcorn. A turtle. Charged hair. Toby Ziegler. Rod Stewart. George Condo. Poor faux ethnic aesthetics. Wim Delvoye. The Daiso. Something awfully tacky such as a the design of a sun umbrella in Los Americos. A dreadful film about flamingoes. James Cameron. David Duchovny. Weird Science. Stephen Hawking. ...
peasants don't pos…
this is dedicated to the chests in Tokyo that these stones are striking sleep deep in this citric fire ...
today's lesson: W
Whilst weaving whitish whatchamacallits to wear waltzing Wednesday, Wanda whacked a Welsh wombat with a wilted waffle when Walter whispered, “WWWWWWWWWWWWWddsafaWWWWWsdsdfssWWWWWWWWWWWggggg.” ...
