A Shout-out to My Homey Fancy-L

I found this on the net somewhere (one of those 'wackiest photos of 2006' or something like that) a while ago and I've been meaing to post it for Luke. So here it is. This kid has gotten to realize his 'fantasy of going one-on one with a bear'. Are you jealous, Luke?

Party Hearty!

Last week was the going-away party for Iain (former AT of Sanda who's gone on to bigger things.) We all went to Furano and stuffed ourselves full of sashimi, fondued vegetables, pizza and of course cheese-potato-mochi, otherwise known as 'instant heart-attack'. Moving speeches were made and much silliness occured. We all said good-bye to Iain (We'll miss you buddy! Good Luck at NMKG!), but I'm sure he'll be back for future Sanda bashes!
After Furano we headed on down to the new Karaoke place (which seems to be the same as the old karaoke place except with more monkeys) to sing our hearts out. A good deal of imbibing of 'delicious drinks' was done by various members of the party, and things got a little wild. Here's an actual photo of two of the revelers at the after-party Karaoke bash.

Goog Morninger!

For Luke

This is for Luke: Kawaguchi, otherwise known as Goaliemoto, the only saving grace of the Japanese soccer team.

Who is James 'Luke' Johnson ?

Mild-mannered English conversation teacher?

Dare-devil kickboxer of wolves and bears?

Break-away rap talent?

World chair-spinning champion?

Closet transvestite?

or all of these, and more....

Death Note

So, Erica has this new comic book she's using to practice her Japanese called 'Death Note'. It's about this kid who finds this note-book dropped by one of the gods of death and uses it in a crusade to wipe evil-doers off the face of the earth. I've only read about half of the first issue so far, but it's pretty good and I like the drawing style. However the coolest thing of all has got to be the fact that the god of death is named Luke. I mean Luke is like a totally awesome name and everything, (yeah, right..) but for a death god you'da thunk they coulda come up with something, I don't know, a tad more menancing and fangorius, y'know?