From here:

Don’t practice martial arts barefoot on artificial turf, on a hot sunny day. My sunburn and my rugburn are competing to see which one is the most annoying. Apart from that, the Shinkendo seminar was terrific.

"I can't believe I just got rickrolled by your cubicle."
-- Jennifer

…because I taped this to the wall.

So we did our usual Shinkendo demo at the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival, and while it went over well, the crowd was a lot happier to see the followup act, Performer Kana, a street performer from Osaka. Can’t say that I blame them.

(picture from Oyaji no Hitorigoto blog)

She has some videos up on Youtube, and a blog.

This is the cover of Miko-Ama-Sister!, a serious exploration of religion in modern Japan, in which a scholarly young man probes the depths of Shinto, Buddhism, and Christianity with the help of a shrine maiden and two nuns.

Nah, just kidding, it’s a porn novel.

(or, “fun with obscure fonts that are hard to buy outside of Japan”)

Found originally as an animated GIF; fortunately, Google image search let me track back to the Youtube link.

I have absolutely no idea what this spammer is trying to say in the italicized sentence.

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