Very cool...new Itasha looking super cool. Needed more room for your family addition? Hybrid quite smart. Love your Dorries as always...mine send their greetings.
Beilenson Park in the San Fernando Valley community of Lake Balboa has something like 1,000 sakura trees, all a special hybrid of the "pink cloud" type bred specifically for our hot weather. The trees got nailed pretty bad in a late rainstorm, but th...
This very thing happened to me, only it was public transit directions that got screwed up and I had to get a cab from Downtown Burbank to almost where Pray For Japan had their office last year. Nice cabbie, made sure I tipped well. But oww my aching...
You've beat on Final Cut Pro X enough...what do you think of it at this point? It will work on my Mac Pro if I swap out the video card, is it worth making the jump from FCP7/Studio 3? Or are you looking at alternatives now?
Lucky here in LA that there's stores like Tokyo Lifestyle and Marukai 98 and Marukai Kawaii and of course the big three Japanese supermarkets: Marukai, Nijiya and Mitsuwa. It really is cheaper to deal with a local store than with online importers mos...
Thanks for letting people know about this. I hope that this summer more people will be inspired to help the people of Tohoku, because they will be needing us for years to come.
I just observed the moment of silence at 9:47pm March 10th my time, which is 2:47pm March 11th Japan time. Today is the day we start Daylight Saving Time, so I should really be treating this as one hour later and getting some much needed sleep. Lots...
We deal with feral cats in a much more civilized way here in the States. There are volunteers who take Havahart traps out to areas where feral cats are seen. They trap cats, neuter the males and spay the females, and after the cats get recuperation t...
Mirai-chan shares a birthday with Namiko Yamamoto, the niece of Z. Yamamoto; and my Ichiban girl Alicia Yumiko Natsume has her birthday on 3/1. Namiko was brought home from Volks on 3/3/2010, after a doll meet at the food court at Mitsuwa Marketplace...
We have a few places like this in LA. Frying Fish in Little Tokyo, Sushi A-Float in Pasadena. The latter place has a moat where little boats float past, bearing lusciousness on a plate. The former is a more conventional Kaiten, and has been around fo...
If you're in LA and you hit 21 you either go to a club that has a 21 and over age limit, see a band, and drink; or of course the notorious Vegas run. I think I went to see some punk gig when I turned 21, at a venue I couldn't have attended the day be...
Iced Green Tea for the win. I make my own...and I make it STRONG. Actually it's a combo of Green and Black tea...China green and an English Breakfast type Black tea. The combo is awesome. I'm sure it would be tasty with sweetener and condensed milk,...
I visited Little Tokyo on New Year's Day and shot video. Donald, my Otaku no Podcast co-host, has the video now and it should go up soon. Visited Koyasan Shingon Buddhist Temple, then checked out the festive events at Weller Court and Japanese Villag...
We have street vendors who sell "elotes." The Mexican way of seasoning an ear of corn is mayonnaise, chili powder, garlic powder and Cotija cheese which is sort of Mexican Parmesan cheese. Yum!
Got done with that yesterday too. Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, CA, has many Buddhist temples, but only recently got a Shinto shrine. Out of habit, I get my amulets and talismans from Koyasan Shingon Buddhist Temple on 1st St. Shingon is the mystical...
Headed out to Little Tokyo for some Oshogatsu adventure. Will have my video camera with me so there might be something up from Otaku no Podcast real soon afterward. Hope nothing got broken by the quake...7 is pretty strong. Northridge January 1994 wa...
