CHICKEN COOP APOCALYPSE
As a kid I carried water to the chicken coop each morning in a glass gallon jug. In the winter the water was quite hot. For an eight year old, […]
ANGRY WOODWINDS SHOULD RULE
RULE? HELL, WE SHOULD TAKE OVER THE WORLD I’m pissed. The fawning public adulation bestowed on string players, the plethora of composers writing string quartets and concertos is too damn […]
SHOWING UP IS 80% OF LIFE
I feel deficient in the heroic, celebrity status my ego demands. It’s neither an enviable nor horrible sensation, but there seems to be a lack of grandiosity or even significance […]
PROFESSIONAL POTTY PATHFINDERS
TALENTED TOILET TIGERS I have seen the future of travel. It’s not exactly pretty and is going to require some kind of a hack or work around. American travelers come […]
A BILLIONAIRE’S UTOPIA
Lefty politicians have their own visions of Utopia, and it excludes capitalists like Mr. Soichiro Fukutake. Capitalism is good, Fukutake believes, except for the fact that too many people serve […]
SHAKESPERE WOULD LIKE JAPANESE TEA
Atami, Japan Look away from the great, grand dramas in life. they never seem to last. Look instead to the small, the enduring rituals that last in perpetuity and add […]