August 2012
When a co-worker comes back from vacation with...
cantomemes:
Hey, it’s omiyage season in Japan too.
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“Put yourself in a father’s position. Yes, [having a baby out of wedlock] is...”
– Pennsylvania Senate candidate Tom Smith, comparing having a baby out of wedlock to pregnancy caused by rape. (via officialssay)
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“The girl in the photo is Lethal Lipps, the porno star. She’s drinking a...”
– One of the finest explanations of an album cover you could hope to read.
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Remembering Hiroshima
August has arrived. Soon Hiroshima will commemorate the anniversary of its atomic bombing. At 8:15 in the morning on August 6, a call for silent prayer will be intoned, and the Peace Bell will be struck. It is a moment that always makes my heart heavy.
My father was originally from Hiroshima, and when I was a child, I always spent the summer there. My grandparents’ house went up in flames in the...
penguin joke
A penguin was driving his convertible through the desert. All of a sudden, the car started spewing black smoke and bucking all over the place.
Fortunately, there was a garage nearby, and near the garage was a supermarket. After waiting around in the desert heat for the mechanic to assess what was wrong, the penguin decided to cool off a bit in the supermarket.
He went immediately to the frozen...
bar joke
A duck walks into a bar one day at lunch time. He orders a beer and a ham sandwich. After several days of the same lunch order the bartender says “Never saw a duck eat lunch in here before.” The duck replies, “Well, get used to it. I’m working on the construction job across the street.”
A few days later the circus comes to town and the ringmaster comes into the bar...
When I hear a new Mexican restaurant has opened...
cantomemes:
When the food is served
After I’ve finished
Most definitely true of Tokyo as well.
When I learned there were no open-container laws
cantomemes:
For the benefit of non-Americans: United States open-container laws
Life in Japan.
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