For Chinese New Year (or what some refer to as the Spring Festival, even though it occurs in late January/early February) my wife and I get three weeks of vacation time. Initially we had planned to spend some time with my sister and her husband on the beaches of Thailand. As we had been unable […]
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The misses and I are leaving for Tokyo tomorrow morning. We will be visiting Hiroshima, Kyoto, Osaka and a few other cities on the main island. We will be gone for about two weeks. As such, the Midnight Cafe will be closed. I’m sure there will be plenty of stories and pictures to share when […]
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When I was in high school a little used CD shop called The Beat Goes On opened up in my little hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma. To my knowledge it was the very first shop of its type to ever open its doors in Claremore. I loved it. I used to go by there […]
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They say the memory is the first thing to go, and it seems that for once, they might be right. A couple of weeks ago I restarted this weekly feature and then promptly forgot about it. And now I’m going to be gone for a couple of weeks and thus it will disappear again.
Ray […]
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“Vengeance is mine” says the Lord, but Park Chan-wook says that might not be such a good idea. Park has made three films dealing with themes of revenge and none of them end well. No, this vengeance trilogy deals with the dark, horrible side of payback, and as pretty much all of the […]
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There are a few miscellaneous things I’ve been meaning to write about that never seem important enough to merit a column of their own. Here they are all bundled up together, for your reading pleasure.
Haircuts and massagesI have always found great pleasure in a good hair cut. There is something about the pampering, the attention […]
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My brother and I have always had something of a strained relationship. He is four years older than me which means he was always way ahead of me in everything – when I entered high school he graduated, when I went to college he had finished his term in the Navy and was well into […]
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A brief account of my life with Lord of the Rings.
I had known about Tolkein and his hobbits for quite some time, but only as a shadow. The works were something I had heard about in conversations and places where they mention such things, but I had never given it much thought. I’m […]
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Deputydog has created a list of the world’s most controversial (and racist and strangely hilarious) board games ever made. Most of them seem to be no longer available, but it is amazing to see what somebody though might make for some wholesome family fun. My favorite is the pictured Ghettopoly where you run […]
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Nostalgia is a funny word. The older I get the more I seem to be a part of it. The more I find myself talking in excited tones about things I did, saw, and listened to as a kid. This is especially true of movies and I am perpetually finding myself going […]
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