Walking down a side alley today we saw these chefs outside a sushi joint with this 100 kilo tuna. They were selling ¥150 beers and doing a “breakdown” demonstration. So we stuck around and watched. Here are the highlights!
Current status: in a back alley in Osaka where they are about to clean a 100kilo tuna in front of a small crowd
#Osaka #Japan
(love being able to correct my spelling errors in Micro.blog and Mastodon after posting… hate having to give up or repost on Bluesky 😭)
Philosophers ranked by their punk credentials: I would put the Buddha a bit higher on the scale since his critique of the caste system, and the workaround he created for people to escape it, was revolutionary 🪷✊🧘👨🎤
#punk #philosophy #buddhism
Annual medical checkup day. Just ran the gauntlet at the local health office 🏥🩺. Really wish we did this in Canada, it is a great marker. (Also, amazed at how much I have shrunk in the past couple of years! 🙀)
Finished Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie 📚
Can’t stop this series! But don’t want it to end, so going to take a break before I read the final volume.
This was absolutely delightful ncase.me/crowds/
Ikijima’s population has dropped by 140 and is just below 24K now. There are only 2727 children on the island.
#ikijima #壱岐島
It’s my birthday. So I watched End of Evangelion and started reading Non-things by Byung-Chul Han 📚
Yeah, middle age is a breeze 😬
Elaborate handmade birthday card presented to me at dinner 🎂
Daughter 1: I wrote it all in Old English. 😇
Daughter 2: Why? So he could understand it? 😈
🔥 🔥 🔥 💀
My last day as a 45 year old had a spectacular sunset. My 12 year old took this photo 📸 🌆 👌
View from the Cybozu Osaka office. We are here and ready for our workshop tonight
Sitting in a crowded Umeda café reviewing my slides for tonight’s workshop on The Culture Map. If you are free this evening, why not come down to the awesome Cybozu office and hang out with us:
Myaku Myaku train in the early evening 📸 🚋 🦠
#Osaka #大阪
It could be better for everybody — a review of Limitarianism in just 335 words
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Nice review of a beautiful looking book: The Uyghurs: Kashgar before the Catastrophe
Photos are from 1998. Compare with the NYT photo essay from 2019 I linked in a post with some of my photos from 2004. What a place. 😔
Finally finished processing and uploading my Taiwan photos to Flickr. I ended up picking 307 out of 1800 and organizing them into a number of albums. Link below, but I will to write a trip report soon with context.
Fun NBN interview with Richard Jaffe about his book Seeking Sakyamuni, a book I adore. 📚🎙
Interview: newbooksnetwork.com/seeking-s… My chapter notes: www.goodreads.com/review/sh…
Also good to hear @ssiddiqui83’s voice again!
#Buddhism #Japan #history #books #podcast
Started the second volume of The First Law series Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie 📚
When I arrived at Osaka Castle Park Station I was wondering why there were so many people walking around? 🤔 Was it a concert at Osaka Dome? 👩🎤 NOPE! It was the 2024 Craft Gyoza Fest! 🥟🥟🥟 #Osaka #Japan #餃子
