Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Dispatch from Seoul
This is my last night in Asia, and I’m a bit exhausted, but I thought I should blog from Korea while I still can! Kim and I had a great two-week whirlwind tour of Japan that included cat cafes, Doraemon, Astro Boy, Totoro, Pokemon arcade games, sushi trains, biking around Mt. Fuji, staying in temples, [...]
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
One photo from Japan
It’s 1:30 a.m. and I have spent a good aprt of the evening walking around the alleys of downtown Kyoto looking for a Tanuki (mythical badger) shrine. I’m too tired to write much, so here is a photo of Totoro, your neighbor and mine, at a Shinto shrine in the Fuji/Five Lakes region that Kim [...]
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Dispatch from Tokyo
Greetings from Akihabara, Tokyo’s “technology city,” where Kim and I are spending our second night in Japan. We flew out of Adelaide to Sydney at about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, which meant we had to be up even earlier. After Sydney we had a nine hour flight to Osaka, which was delayed by an hour [...]
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
State of the Union
In about 30 hours I will be heading off for a month-long tour of Asia. I just printed out first draft of the script for the graphic novel I’m doing with Peter. It’s over 40,000 words, which I think makes it the longest thing I’ve written. It took a lot of paper to print, and [...]
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Black Rock Freeride
My younger (no longer “little”) brother Nathan is big into freeride mountain biking, which is something I’ve never done, but it seems to involve biking through trails in the forest and across elevated wooded platforms that look like they came straight from the Ewok treehouses in Return of the Jedi. So it seems pretty fun. [...]