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saleem
who currently lives on a boat.
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FROM THE START:
The Quarter-Japanese Kid hits up the homeland
Tokyo Silence
I'm Oriented
Tilting Towards Kumamoto
Fish Heads and Public Nudity
Halfie the Half-blood falls off his bike
And furthermore: Halfie the Half-blood Breaks a Chair
I Don't Know if I Like Pippi Longstalkings
Tanboy Eats Fish Eyeball
Japanese Communists are Cuddly
Test Your Halfblood Knowledge!
I Scare Small Children
It Was Like a Cuteworld Abby Road
Today's Post Contains Bees. And Profanity.
Typhoons Will Not Stop Me
The Sun Also Sets
Quick Note: Saleem is Not Dead
CORRECTION: Typhoons Scare Me. Lots.
Watch the Tan Kid Blush
Call for Entries: Name My Kids
The Youth Are Quick and True
Open Letter: To the Breaker at City Hall
Halfie Gets a Verbal Sucker Punch
The Kumamoto Drunken Horse Fest
Japanese Houses Hate Halfie's Head
How to Start Your Japanese Rock Band
Halfie's Personal Dignity on Decline
Japanese Sports Day: I Train Young Warriors
Theory: Three Strange Occurences Per Hour
How to Win an iPod While Dressed as a Typhoon
Winnie the (drunken) Pooh
The Earth Quakes
Collecting Japanese Salmon Sperm
Illiterate at 26
Japan's Children Ignore Homeboy's Toothless Face
Japanese Genius Boy Answers Your Question
Our Students Have Respect . For Nelly.
The Young Boxers
Dear 27% of America (Kid Ethnic Registers)
Please Do Not Attempt to Step to My Japanese Rock Band

I would like to acknowledge a huge error that I recently made here on kidethnic.com. I wrongfully implied both here and here that typhoons were a joke for a durable half-blood like me.
I stand very corrected. Typhoons scare me so much that the mere memory of the last one makes me pause and consider whether or not to wet my pants out of residual fear.
When the storm began in the middle of the Monday night, I was going to see yet another over-hyped thunderstorm. Sure, the word “Typhoon” sounds scary, but so does “pancreas”, and everyone knows that your pancreas is a delightful friend to be loved and cherished.
Even when the rain and win began in the a.m., I thought the morning would be peacefully spent photographing leaves as they stuck to my glass doors.

I should have known something was up when the light behind the leaves became not-so-cute.

A typhoon is, in fact, just a hurricane in a different ocean. And it might rip things like, oh, I dunno, the dividing walls along your apartment’s balcony to tiny sharp pieces. As seen above.
And it might forcibly remove your bike shelter’s sheltering bits.

It does, however, provide a lovely background for one to perform creative work. Like movies. Or, in my case, films.
Take, for example, the stunning Flight of My Garbage Can (a tiny download, very short, Quicktime required).
Note how the filming of the Slipping and Sliding of My Garbage can builds suspense for the beautiful moment of flight. Note how careless viewers will not even notice the garbage can’s flight over my balcony wall. Note that this is due to the murky focus and dodgy camera handling, and note how I will insist on swearing that these elements are part of my oeuvre.
Note that I cannot define that word.
And note, for future reference, that storing your garbage in little sacks around the house because you don’t know where in Japan one purchases a garbage can makes for a very smelly crib.
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Glad you’re okay.
— Liz 2009 days ago #
— Jim Ray 2009 days ago #
Man, I really don’t know much about Japanese politics at all. Except that the people in my prefecture don’t like Koizumi. They express this by likening him to George W. Bush.
— saleem 2009 days ago #