It has been a good weekend here at the Deadly Troubadours home office (aka, my apartment.) Nothing overly constructive happened, but that might be why it was such an enjoyable weekend. Saturday morning I took a train two hours to play a little table-top rpg. My friend Rodney, who is the man behind Rising Phoenix … More Dice, Biscuits and an Omnibus
I’m not that good a self promotion. I like to think everything I create is a least decent with a few things that might even be considered pretty good. I also like to tell myself that the quality of my creations is consistently increasing. Maybe not between every item, but certainly as a general trend. … More Spread the Word
It is a sunny day this Christmas Eve. I spent this more jumping through bureaucratic hoops getting proof that I am a legal alien and that my lungs work. By the by, any joke you might have heard about old people going to the doctor in Japan simply as a social convention appears to be quite true. … More Merry Christmas (Eve) 2015
This week will (hopefully) see another project begin to bear fruit. Since February I’ve been co-hosting the Living Japan Podcast and it has been a great deal of fun. So much fun that I wanted to start a second podcast that discusses comic books. Which, as you know, is not the most original idea ever. … More Comics League International
You might notice that this same old blog has a new address. Yeah, hopefully that won’t cause too many problems. Nerts. “Why the change?” no one has asked yet. But I’ll explain anyway. I started this blog a almost three years ago. At that time I was working at a job that wasn’t always the … More Something has changed…
It’s been a while. I had goals for this summer and I met a lot of those goals. Unfortunately, the goals that were set about regularly updating here did not get met. Now I will start playing catch-up. Here is my lame excuse as to why: For the middle six weeks of this summer I … More How I Spent My Summer Vacation
It has been a busy few months for me. But then again, who hasn’t had a busy few months. Still, on July first I submitted my master’s thesis. It was a culmination of roughly 18 months of research and 2 months of intensive writing. If anyone ever wants to talk about Japanese women who practice … More Plans for the Future! (housekeeping and other ideas)
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