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Our First Podcast Episode! - Yappari Japan
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Our First Podcast Episode! Our First Podcast Episode! February 2, 2016. Testing 1, 2, 3. The episode in which we forget to tell you our names. Http:/ media.blubrry.com/yapparijapan/p/www.yapparijapan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/YappariJapan 20160121 final.mp3. Podcast: Play in new window. Beginning with the End. April 30, 2016. The Dog Ate Our Podcast. April 19, 2016. February 2, 2016. I just happened to check FB today and see your post, Rich. I enjoyed this raw and fun thing. 😉. February 2, 2016.
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kappa no he: 3/31/13 - 4/7/13
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Quirky Japanese thoughts and things. Saturday, April 06, 2013. My short story is in the current issue of MANOA Literary Journal. The theme is "ON FREEDOM Spirit, Art, and State". There are some really amazing authors in there. I'm delighted and humbled to have been asked to join their likes. My piece ("Sasa in the Rain") is a fairy tale-like story involving a man and woman from different worlds searching to be free of their lives.oh, and there are a few devils and a mountain witch in there, too.
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kappa no he: 7/31/11 - 8/7/11
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Quirky Japanese thoughts and things. Saturday, August 06, 2011. Buddha Statues and a Surprise. I've been visiting a bunch of local temples recently. Part of it is research for the book (I! Finish by the end of the year! And part it is a longtime hobby of mine. Buddhism, Buddhist history, temple architecture, gorgeous gardens, and ancient stone statues - I love it all. Today I climbed two. Mountains, visited two. Statue was closed up for the day. There was nothing to see. Let's see, we have a jizo. Someth...
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kappa no he: 12/30/12 - 1/6/13
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Quirky Japanese thoughts and things. Sunday, December 30, 2012. My cousin asked a great question today: What is mochi. I was going to answer and then realized I couldn't get the gist of it in a short FaceBook reply. So here's the longer response. For special occasions - but especially during the New Year's holidays - people in Japan eat mochi. It's glutinous rice that is cooked and then while still piping hot pounded into a sticky (and I mean sticky! And from here you can decorate them any way you want.
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kappa no he: 4/29/12 - 5/6/12
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Quirky Japanese thoughts and things. Sunday, April 29, 2012. I've had a long standing feud with Mother's Day, ever since we moved into this new house, in this new neighborhood. That is, every year for twelve years Mother's Day coincides with our town's River Sludge Cleaning Day. Now wake up early, pull on those thigh-high rubber boots, and get out there and dredge some slime. Okay, by river I mean this. The whole thing looks a lot like this. Scraping up River Sludge. But I was chastised. And so, I no lon...
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kappa no he: 5/27/12 - 6/3/12
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Quirky Japanese thoughts and things. Sunday, May 27, 2012. A Tale of Four Sages. I'll fix some of my sage and pork.". Here's a close up of this delightful smelling plant. Most of you 'in the know' can see where this is going. So a couple of months ago I was being shown a rooftop garden. The man was pointing to all his different herbs and naming them for me. "Basil, parsley, lemon balm." And then he pointed to what was the exact twin of my sage and said, "Of course you know rosemary.". Yep All dried up.
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kappa no he: 4/8/12 - 4/15/12
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Quirky Japanese thoughts and things. Sunday, April 08, 2012. Hana Yori Dango - Dumplings Rather Than Flowers. I'd rather have dumplings than flowers.") is a famous Japanese proverb. It means preferring practical things over. And there you have my lame segue for introducing my favorite dumpling. The sasa dango. This is what one looks like. All wrapped up in bamboo grass leaves that both smell great and have anti-bacterial properties to boot. So you undo the fancy, ingeniously-tied, vine and. Niigata. ...
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kappa no he: 9/18/11 - 9/25/11
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Quirky Japanese thoughts and things. Saturday, September 24, 2011. Best Fire Extinguisher Ever! Sometimes translation is hard. English to Japanese. Japanese to English. A lot of the time phrases just turn nonsensical, sometimes they turn hilarious, and sometimes they turn fabulous. Every Friday I park at this parking garage and it makes me happy. Why? Because there's a fire extinguisher on each level, clearly marked. Yeah, baby, yeah! Links to this post. Labels: funny first extinguisher.
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kappa no he: 5/20/12 - 5/27/12
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Quirky Japanese thoughts and things. Sunday, May 20, 2012. At work my husband and his team are developing a smart phone for the elderly. It has been getting pretty good press, called Raku Raku Smart Phone. I present you with some of the photo shoot. These are the pictures that we didn't choose to hand over. The warming up, if you will. Okay, Cha, give me 'cute puppy'. Now give me 'pensive'. Can you do 'gangsta'? Betcha can't do 'coy'. Is that an alien space craft landing? Can I have some 'worried'?
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