As I wrote a few days ago, I’m a big big Lakers fan. Most of my friends don’t follow sports so they couldn’t care less. Or if they follow sports, they dislike the Lakers because some consider them the Yankees or Manchester United of basketball.
Well, if you’re not interested in watching the best [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 26, 2008
What is a Quilting Sword?
My father, an astute and thoughtful man, asked me two great questions.
What is a quilting sword?
What are you meditating about in all those Meditating Wind photos.
Today I’ll answer the first question. But I’ll let you decide which you think is true, multiple choice style.
A. A quilting sword is a curved needle made of hummingbird [...]
May 25, 2008
The Sports Exile
I haven’t blogged much this past week because I’ve been following the NBA playoffs. The NBA is the U.S. professional basketball organization. Basketball is my favorite sport. And the Los Angeles Lakers, my favorite team, is one of four teams left playing for a championship. But more on them later.
I got [...]
May 15, 2008
Firefoxes in the Tama Zoo
Yesterday, one of my students, who’s a reporter, told me her most recent article was about the sharp rise in zoo visitors in Japan. There were a whopping 40 million visitors to zoos in 2007, up from a few hundred thousand, ten years ago. That’s a huge increase. And that’s a third [...]
May 14, 2008
St. Mary’s Cathedral
Japan’s most important architect is the late Kenzo Tange. Previously I wrote about visiting one of his works, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. And I also wrote about one of his works being featured in an exhibit about architectural photography. I visited this structure, St. Mary’s Cathedral. Built in 1963, the [...]
May 11, 2008
Eating Tofu with Swedes
Last night we had dinner at a tofu restaurant with our friends Yukiko, Gustav, and his brother Magnus. Yukiko had been working in Cambodia for an NGO and in Jordan before that. We’re glad to have her back before she returns to saving the world in another country. Gustav is visiting from [...]
May 8, 2008
I Am Legend
I Am Legend is the third film adaptation of a Richard Matheson novel of the same name. The 1954 novel is credited with being the first work of fiction involving zombies. In the book, a bacterial pandemic has spread through 1970’s Los Angeles. The only survivors have turned into zombie vampires. [...]
