I’m home alone on Friday night after a trying week, trying due to too much exposure to, and consideration of, both the presidential election and the effort I put into being a writer, a photographer, and a fledgling business owner versus the financial reward I have thus far enjoyed from any of these creative things. [...]
You’ll figure it out… Red City is a visual poem or “artoon” I devised when I was doing graphic design and marketing work for EDS Japan in Tokyo in 1988. Red City isn’t hand-drawn. Using an IBM PC at my job (an AT or an XT, I forget which), I drew each panel in a [...]
It’s easy to be a holy man on the top of a mountain—Larry Darrell (Bill Murray), “The Razor’s Edge” (1984) Twenty-five years ago this week, my Australian boss from my job at the Tokyo office of an American computer services company convinced me and a co-worker it was a good idea to scamper up the [...]
Hello, and welcome to Tokyo. My name is Television… …and I’ll be your host. It would be my honor to entertain you today. Would you like to start with the news…? You don’t even need to go outside, because I can show you the weather too… Tired of the weather? How [...]
I don’t believe in god, but I believe in Mount Fuji. I hiked to the top of it once in 1987, with my Australian boss and another American guy who also worked for our American information services company. Initially I regarded the trip to Mount Fuji as just something to do to get out of [...]
She passes and glows, she has no time for you. She passes and glows, but her speed causes no time warp. She passes and glows, and all of Japan’s radio photons contract around her pulling the whole world out of focus. As she goes you can’t be sure who she is, what she was, or [...]
It’s odd, I am to embark upon a journey soon. To another planet, a planet I have visited before. A planet where I once lived, and felt comfortable. I left under a cloud of things which can only be described by fanatical men in bowties made of glass. They reflect the things they observe, therefore [...]
I need a new passport for an upcoming trip to Tokyo, Japan. So I sent in my application two Fridays ago. And the State Department rejected it, the bastards. They didn’t like my photo. Said the dimensions or background were wrong. I have the memo. No biggie. I’ll just pay closer attention to the required [...]
Grief is an unconquerable emotion. You can only manage it….. I am both embarrassed by this thing, and rather proud of it. You can have a closer look at….everything. If you’d like. The whole thing, each small packet. You can think of it as a mixed-media piece, which some proud but confused parent has displayed [...]
Grief is an unconquerable emotion. You can only manage it….. Part II, and Coda: The Hanging Chad Addenda Coda: My father died in the early hours of May 18th, 2008. We did not get along, but I loved him. I did not go to the funeral. This was a stupid decision. The circumstances of both [...]
