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November 28, 2009 03:51 AM EST --
If there are any music lovers on your Christmas gift list, I would appreciate your consideration of my album on iTunes. Most suitable for people of the folk-Boomer generation, I think. Melodic with . . .
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April 29, 2009 12:53 AM EDT --
I was talking at lunch yesterday with a fellow English teacher who is convinced that the coming global economic collapse will be much worse than the 1930s depression, and that anyone who hasn't gotten . . .
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April 26, 2009 03:28 AM EDT --
Writers of all types are invited to participate in this free conference. In the first year we met in Tokyo, last year we met in Nagoya, and this autumn we will meet in Kyoto, on the campus . . .
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December 31, 2008 11:32 AM EST --
Hi, all and Happy New Year.
It's 01:20 AM here in Japan, January 1st, 2009, and by my calculations everybody any further west of me than Beijing should still be in 2008. But according . . .
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December 13, 2008 10:40 PM EST --
Slightly edited version, cutting out my actual address:
I am thrilled to see your drive for more transparency in government.
I've been an expat English teacher in Japan for . . .
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October 15, 2008 02:53 AM EDT --
One thing I've learned to count on at Gather is comment from all sides of the political spectrum. I've only recently heard about the "Fair Tax" proposal and would like to learn . . .
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September 19, 2008 07:04 AM EDT --
Hi again, everybody
I've just tried to share a post with several of my groups, but so far it hasn't shown up in my e-mail. I don't know what's causing the delay.
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September 19, 2008 06:02 AM EDT --
Hi, everybody
I've had my music on iTunes for just about two years now, but so far have gotten almost no action. Now I'm going to humiliate myself in front of the whole world and . . .
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September 19, 2008 05:55 AM EDT --
Hi, everybody
I've had my music on iTunes for just about two years now, but so far almost no action at all. Now I'm going to humiliate myself in front of the whole world and ask for . . .
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March 03, 2008 01:47 AM EST --
From: gribblej@gol.com
Subject: Japan Writers Conference
Date: February 16, 2008 9:33:58 AM JST
Following on the success of the Japan Writers Conference . . .
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November 10, 2007 05:34 AM EST --
The Japanese have a phrase JITENSHA SOHGYOH, literally "bicycle business," but which I'm going to very liberally translate here as "running your business like riding a bicycle" . . .
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September 29, 2007 12:54 AM EDT --
Hi, Alan
Just listened to your next-most-recent podcast and thought I'd mention that the "theme by Corelli" used by Rachmaninov seemed very familiar. I checked, and sure enough -- at . . .
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September 09, 2007 11:09 AM EDT --
Hi, everybody
Reading several politically-charged articles over the past several months, I've become curious about a point of fact: If you wanted to vote "None of the Above" in a presidential . . .
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August 30, 2007 05:23 AM EDT --
Hi, everybody
I've been posting chapters of my novel, "Dawn in Honolulu" these past few days. I was hoping to reach Chapter 15 as soon as possible, but today I goofed things up and overwrote . . .
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August 19, 2007 07:39 AM EDT --
I'm by no means an expert on either home recording or GarageBand, but at the suggestion of William Dotani, I thought I'd share my experiences.
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GarageBand is the music-making . . .
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July 29, 2007 10:38 PM EDT --
Yesterday (Sunday here) was Election Day for the upper house (The House of Councilors -- bizarre spelling taken from the Japan Times).ÂÂ Prime Minister Abe's party, the LDP (Liberal . . .
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July 11, 2007 07:27 AM EDT --
July 11, 1991 -- that IS sixteen, right?
It was supposed to be the most fantastic sight ever, passing directly over about a dozen of the world's biggest telescopes sitting on the top of Mauna . . .
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April 29, 2007 01:52 AM EDT --
It's now already Sunday the 29th here in Japan, and today is a national holiday, MIDORI-NO-HI, translatable as "Green Day" or "Greenery Day".----For over 60 years it was celebrated . . .
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April 28, 2007 10:35 PM EDT --
It's now already Sunday the 29th here in Japan, and today is a national holiday, MIDORI-NO-HI, translatable as "Green Day" or "Greenery Day".----For over 60 years it was celebrated . . .
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April 14, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
Perhaps others of you out there in GatherLand have already had this experience, but it was new to me. I rented some DVDs and discovered that the first 20 minutes or so is . . .
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