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this is what the Yamanote feels like to the Saturday morning drunk

noyce. i think the rice paddies with mountains in the distance is my favorite run scenery.

listened in from boston. missing the japanese alps, missing the new year's holiday in japan, missing the whole vibe

thanks for twenty plus minutes of wry smiles. high hopes for the patriots.

Can a Japanese-style 7-Eleven make it in the United States? - The Boston Globe In the stores I visited in Japan, you could buy umbrellas and underwear, stationery or sake. You could pay an electric bill, top up a metro card, make photocopies, buy tickets to events, use the spotl...

i would love to have a konbini nearby, but i can't imagine how it would happen...

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/30/o...

Kiwi's arm 'fully snapped' in Japanese bear attack "I was screaming a lot, in fight or flight": Kiwi Billy Halloran, 32, had been out for a casual run when he saw a bear heading towards him.

this "recovery run" story is wild. gonna rethink my routes when i'm in niigata next summer.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/576...

I refer to their faith as "Christian-ism"

Japanese literature has made me believe that kanzashi are used chiefly as lethal weapons, but they also work well to hold hair in place

kinda like the paperweight in The Gentlemen

so, at least you didn't get in trouble

TIL the English for Japanese is japanizu

butterfly sundial (could also be a great band name)

i find his non-fiction insipid, but his short stories well crafted, especially once you get over the fact that some facet of him forms the main character in almost all cases…

…including 納屋を焼く, in which the protagonist is a runner.

Trump's descent into fascism is worse than we could have predicted The situation is far, far worse than we anticipated

inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

watching Lost Angel, a 2024 documentary about Judee Sill.

"I think it’s important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy."
--Kurt Vonnegut