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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

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How to Win an iPod While Dressed as a Typhoon

Winnie the (drunken) Pooh

The Earth Quakes

Collecting Japanese Salmon Sperm

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Japan's Children Ignore Homeboy's Toothless Face

Japanese Genius Boy Answers Your Question

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The Young Boxers

Dear 27% of America (Kid Ethnic Registers)

Please Do Not Attempt to Step to My Japanese Rock Band

Halfie the Half-blood falls off his bike · 29 July 04

Woke up this morning and fell off a bike.

The bikes here are short and have baskets. I felt off balance from the start. Nathan (my predecessor here in Kumamoto) and I rode the 30 minutes to the agricultural high school where I’ll teach two days a week.

Looks like I’ll pass rice paddies, a junkyard and a chicken coop on the way into work.

On our trip back, I put a map of the route into my bicycle basket and tried to lead the way. A breeze caught the map, I reached for it, and somehow ended up on the ground facing the wrong way with my bike behind me.

Some asphalt in the palms, some blood on the elbow, but otherwise okay.

It was the kind of lame accident that might happen to Mary Poppins.

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  1. You know, the vision of you floating down from the sky via umbrella makes the asphalty palms totally worth it to me. Thank you for the sacrifice.
    — Jim Ray    2033 days ago    #

  2. Thanks Jim. You know, I do it for my people.
    And for the children.
    And especially for my people’s children.
    — saleem    2032 days ago    #

  3. That’s an insult to Mary Poppins, who I can’t recall ever looking tussled, except when she powdered her face with coal dust to hang out with those raucous chimney sweeps, the charming curs! “Step in time”!
    — Brant    1995 days ago    #

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