I appreciate the folks on the I-93 overpass between SNHU and Derryfield School in New Hampshire tonight. I'm sure it meant a lot to see signs of unity for those heading south this vacation weekend.
Japan's early modern period and Tokugawa-Meiji transition--communications, education and literacy. 今、内海船、北前船の歴史に興味ある。Still not sure about this online stuff, so I guess I'm being coy: チャールズ アンドリューズ
1,128 followers 1,516 following 15,169 posts
view profile on Bluesky
I appreciate the folks on the I-93 overpass between SNHU and Derryfield School in New Hampshire tonight. I'm sure it meant a lot to see signs of unity for those heading south this vacation weekend.
'preciate ya.
Historians… and also the guy who played Duckie in Pretty in Pink www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
Jr. and Eric: "who's your favorite, dad?" DJT: "Tariff."
"fat gassy plain" ripped from my tinder profile.* *I don't have a tinder profile.
"Dad, why do they call a 'hurricane' a 'cyclone' in southasia?" "It spins the opposite direction." [Answers that are not answers]
"I will block you." I don't care.
They've known this for a long time, according to my NG students. Some have said it led to suicides on deployment to the Mexican border.
"Out on the road today I saw a Ball Park sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said stripe it with ketchup you can never look back."
There needs to be a new monument site with statues of these guys, maybe next to the Korean War monument.
Also, her degrees are in doubt. Some from degree mills.
Since posting, I've seen this: "Giuliani's business partner, identified by the New York Post as Maria Ryan, arrived at the New Hampshire hospital soon after to "oversee his care." Ryan is also a nurse, the outlet said." Yes, it's People, but probably true:
Long rumored romantic partner from New Hampshire.
Not sure why else he would be in NH.
The Buddha said: "there is no real you. there are only multiple accounts using your name. this is the beginning and end of ego and your life savings."
A quick google search with "Ted Goodman" and "Maria Ryan" shows that they are associates and that Maria has been rumored to have had a romantic relationship with Rudy. For example (and I don't even know the significance):
"Jon's got a death grip, though. That's why I have bruising on my hand."
My geriatric band's name will be Broken Hipster.
In junior high we read _The Pigman_. Shortly thereafter someone started using the method described in the book to set off firecrackers in the boys restroom. Two messages: kids do read; the 8th-grade perp became a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon and a distant but dear friend.
Maria Ryan?
"The Everett's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive."
My wife has solved the conundrum of lost reading glasses: just leave about 10 pair all over the house.
I guess he was up visiting his girlfriend, Maria Ryan?
朝のキムチ納豆も美味しいね
大好物です。
"Who loves ya, baby."
Not quite the same, but I've been stuck on spelling 'of' as 'uv' before. And my mom, as an adult, read a book that she loved called The Leopard. She was telling me about it on the phone and I asked the title: "the Lee-o-pard," she told me. She laughed so hard when she found out.
They're gunna win this year!
I live in the libertarian utopia that is not yellow.
I could be sitting on a couple of tubs of pure gold!
No space for another used-car lot? And what about self-storage?
I don't want to be President, but I know I could do a better job.
She has her schedule, but she also has her priorities:
Pedialyte, I'm told.
I thought praxis was pedialite.
Critics be criticizin'n shit.
I was lucky to land jobs in Richmond, VA (Flying Squirrels) and Kentucky (Lexington Legends) and took the family every chance I got. So much fun.
Should be thrown out for wasting time.
He got the contact info for the Army Corp of Engineers at least.
"Privately," he says in the proximity of a hot microphone, "I'm terrified."
Most accurate depiction of being saved by an angel is It's a Wonderful Life.
I was a big fan of the Reuschel brothers.
And also this is a great album. G'night.
Current mood:
We’re in court today alongside a broad coalition of educators and advocates to fight against a new New Hampshire law that unconstitutionally attacks diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in K-12 public schools, public and private colleges and universities, and public entities.
#NHPolitics
From what I've heard, it's a paranoia that really came during the Occupation and has persisted.
That bear just got the last of the nitrous from a whip cream can and is vibrating.
I've been watching when I can. Last night had some terrific points between Gauff and Tomljanovic. Saw the last few points between Townsend and Ostapenko (and Ostapenko behave like an ass). Tuned out a bit cuz Alcaraz match isn't too interesting.
へ？
There have been some tremendous points in this Gauff-Tomljanovic match.
Like living in autocorrect.
That was a la boo boo.
That you know of.
Maybe they'd stop using tongs if they realized how Chinese it sounds.
Thanks for this. I misread.
_Trash_ is a compactive word.
With faint praise, tbf.
I am us.
Bit it and the 'e' fell clean off.
I wondered how long it would take him to find out what happens to corrupt politicians there.
"Adolf, come out of the bunker. They want to negotiate."
Not everyone thought he was Great.
Oh, Welbeck.
I'm convinced that we do these kinds of experiences so that we can better cherish our routine lives upon return.
There are lots of us here who will dismiss your anecdote, but it's really important to understand. Dems tend to think of the electorate the way economists always posited a "rational consumer." It really doesn't work that way very often.
You're doing pretty 良/好.
What a great show that must have been!
Was exposed to Chronic Town in high school by local college radio, so was primed for Murmur. It was a constant in '83 as a freshman. Perfect circle of acquaintances and friends.
Too twangy, too dirty, too heavy. I have two (MIM).
Not an accident he's speaking to an audience in Peachtree City.
When called the "biggest asshole in politics" by the King of the Ratfuckers....
Somehow in my mind a bridge abutment splattered with Arby's Sauce.
I remember hearing an interview with a Swiss guy who had been held in detention for some minor thing for months who said, 'if you admire the cleanliness of Switzerland, know that there's something dirty behind it.'
Adversarial to hair and golf.
I don't know if the cousins are able to perform Noh, though.
It's interesting. I visited my old homestay family. We became very close. It seems that both my homestay "mother" and "father" have cousins who are monks at both temples.
Sweet!
I wasn't prepared to explain it in this way at the time, but it was definitely otherworldly when I went many years ago. Also, I don't think a living national treasure was performing. (Visited friends in Hiraizumi a couple of weeks ago and visited Chūsonji, Mōtsūji again.)
Sleep is the series of naps between roughly 10:30pm and 4:30am. Sometimes long gaps, but almost never a nap past 4:30.
SnS was a family fav growing up in downstate east-central Illinois. Even into the '90s, early '00s, my parents liked to go there once a month or so (coupons may have been involved). It went to shit and they quit about 15 years ago. (Tbh, never big CBarrel fans either. Oh well.)
jet-lagged af, fall asleep at 10pm and wake up at 2am last two nights, fell asleep at 9pm and just woke up due to noisy neighbors, gotta do a 12-hr drive tomorrow--nope, I am old and broke the drive up and will stay in a hotel overnight. #2tired2sleep
Not sure about punk, but according to Joe Walsh, who was there at the time too, Kent went from being a vibrant art/rock scene town to nearly nothing after the tragedy. Those guys all had to head to Akron, Cleveland, Detroit (where we get MC-5, Iggy, etc.). That's an indirect line, at least.
"I demand that Cracker Barrel return to being the kind of place that would never hire me." Byron D.
*Tokyo MER
"I see migrants turn their heads and quickly look away."
Shoulda put it in a Lays bag: "bribes: you can't take just one." Good work!
I didn't/don't know anything about it, but there was a big poster for "Tokyo Mer: Nankai Mission" in the lobby of the hotel I stayed in last week in Nago City. There were some signed shikishi boards on the wall next to it. Now I wish I had asked.
They call it "walking around money" because it wouldn't get you far in a hire.
Less than chuffed.
right choice. To meet old friends--is there a greater joy? I got to see my own kid now making his way w/ far greater facility than I ever managed (and connected to his cousins!). Got to talk to primary and middle school kids and laugh w/ them. Ok, I'm going to sleep. I'll be up in a couple of hours
Also probably traveling w/ a foreboding of what I'm returning to. US politics, AI challenges, the need to pick up slack on research that won't really mean anything to anyone. Moments on trains and ferries wondering how I got wedded (literally, too) to this distant place. But I think I made the 3/4
add a couple of journeys the on mainland. I'm 60 so some friends are 80; a son is there; sometimes wonder why I do what I do. I don't know what I expected, but I'm a bit melancholy now. Partly the exhaustion. Partly a changing me and changing Japan. Partly knowing I won't see some folks again. 2/
I'm trying to reset from jet lag by staying up to my normal bed time, so I'm going to indulge in some reflection (some I've already posted) on recent trip to Japan. For last 2 yrs I've helped at an Eng. lang camp for kids in Okinawa/work on a small island. This yr felt a conviction that I had to 1/
I went to a college with a pretty strong College Republicans presence and it was the beginning of my "how can anyone believe this shit?" political awareness. I guess I understand more now, but this is still my core.
This is why I grade drunk.
It's another one of those "wish they were translated into English" books, but Yoshimi Shunya's 『親米と反米』(Pro-America and Anti-America" (Iwanami, 2007) remains one of the best accounts of the complicated process of "Americanization" in postwar Japan. Summary here: nanzan-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/193
The CIA will do anything to frame and undermine Putin, including murdering his most dangerous political opponent.
Discussion of odd British cuisine names: "spotted dick." Me: "I feel seen."
And beer purity laws.