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The answer is: Yes, if a girl doesn't swallow the only appropriate response is to look at her and say "They still make you??" - An old friend of mine back at Utica College that I knew for the year I went there.

Terrorists Running Rampant, Little Terrors Rampantly Running, The 1st Sign of the Apocalypse...a plea from your favorite gaijin...& Typhoon Dianmu

A new report from the US State Department shows terror attacks at a 21 year high. Due to a Ruthian accounting error the likes of which only Tyco, Enron, and Global Crossing were thought capable of the revised report sheds light on just exactly what it is the Bush administration is accomplishing. To be honest with you and to quote one of my favorite movies "I didn't know they stacked shit that high!"

The only things the Bush administration have accomplished are as follows; One, to rid the world of the Taliban (which, to their credit, was a great move); Two, to oust an oppressive but able leader in Saddam Hussein. Whie he was in power there might have been genocides and torturings and executions, but the day to day life of the normal Iraqi was much better; and Three, they have managed to make the entire world resent it's most powerful country while at the same time creating a national defecit that the ticker on the corner of 42nd Street and 6th Avenue (on the northwest corner across from both Bryant Park and the Verizon Bldg) will soon be unable to keep track of. Reagan is rolling in his grave at the very thought of Bush invoking his famous "city on the hill" phrase. Damn Bush, atleast Michael Moore keeps him in check somewhat.

On a lighter note, yesterday was my first day of teaching english in a public school in Chiba Prefecture. It's nice to be out in the suburbs during the day. It's also nice to be surrounded by innocent kids unaware of all the atrocities being committed in the world today (i.e. beheadings of Americans and Koreans...Paul Johnson is from the same town in NJ my grandparents live in). These kids are just happy to be enjoying the summer heat and to be in the presence of a foreigner with whom they can practice the english that is jammed down their throats by dim witted Japanese Teachers of English (JTE's) whom can barely speak the language themselves.

I am treated like a rockstar out here in the 'burbs. I am the only Gaijin for miles around. It's great! The kids all love me to the point that while I was doing my once a week visit to an elementary school I was gang rushed by about 90 5th graders who just wanted to touch or shake hands with me because I am white. I

f only everyone in the world got this opportunity once in their lives, if not everyday, it would make for a happier planet. If all of those people who hate us Americans here in Japan would see how much their younger children (and alcoholic, slutty teenage daughters) worship us for no reason other than that we are different than maybe some of their predjudices would die down and they would give us a chance. All of my fellow Nihonjin colleagues are shocked at the ease with which I use "hashi" (chopsticks).

The First Sign of the Apocalypse is upon us. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays have won again! That7s 12 games in a row, 15 of their last 17, 18 of their last 21, and since May 20th they are 23-6. Best record in all of baseball! Of course their record is still below .500 at 33-34. That tells you just how awful it got at one point after they got back from Japan after they embarassed the Yanks in the Season opener. That being said, the Devil Rays are kicking ass and taking names right now.

Tino Martinez looks like the Tino of old. He is on pace to hit over 30 home runs this year. It will be his best season since his last with the Yanks when he hit .280 with 34 homeruns and 113 RBI's. The chants of "TINO!! TINO!! TINO!!" that used to echo through Yankee Stadium still ring fresh in my ears after the World Series in which he pretty much carried the Yankees to the 7th Game on his back, with a little help from the soon to be retiring Scott Brosius. Screw Jason Giambi, all he's ever brought the Yanks is a bunch of knee injuries, shitty glove work at first base, and allegations of steroid use. Who am I to complain though?? The Yanks should try to resign Soriano in the offseason if he isn't locked into a long-term deal by then. Imagine that infield?? To quote a movie review in Tokyo Metropolis Magazine about "The Passion of the Christ," the last two words summed up the whole movie quite nicely "HOLY SHIT," that is what opposing teams will be saying at the prospect of a Yanks lineup stacked from top to bottom...

MY PLEA: I need a copy of Bill Clinton's book "My Life." I am willing to do some kind of paypal transaction or COD or something or other with anyone who can ship it to me. I really want this book and do not have a credit card here in Japan because they want me to build up a line of credit first before they issue one to me (they being the credit card companies), thus barring me from Amazon.com. I need this book. Someone please help me get it!

Damnit it's hot out. Despite the forecast for the past two days saying it would barely reach 80 degrees, it has reached well over 90 with humidity so thick it weighs you down. The typhoon that ripped it's way through Japan on monday left three dead and 3 more missing. At about 6pm as the eastern edge of the core of the storm was passing over Tokyo the winds were so strong they actually knocked me on my ass. It was sooo cool!! Reminded me of a tropical storm on the Jersey Shore wayyy back in the day. Couple feet of water on the ground. I think it was the remnants of Hurricane Bertha. not sure though.

I remember as a really young child the remains of Hurricane Bob causing huge Hawaii-like waves on the beach in Ship Bottom, Long Beach Island, NJ that were so big one of them almost drowned me...I was sitting halfway between the water's edge and the lifeguard chair...thing musta been 20 feet high.

All I remember is sitting there with my back to the water and then i heard this loud roar and all these people running past me yelling and screaming. I looked up and saw a wave so big it paralyxed me with fear. I was only 10 at the time. All ten of those years flashed by me in 5 seconds then I was plowed by the wave so hard it sent me doing somersaults and flips up the beach about ten feet past the lifeguard stand and I almost drowned from running out of breath while under the water. It knocked down the lifeguard chair and flooded the whole beach. I will never forget how much it hurt when it hit me. It felt like i ran into a cement wall.

Waking up at 5am sucks...