Exhibit: Noriko Miyake’s goddess art
Catching up on my/our miraculous life, yonder back in December 2021 amidst preparation for Christmas and a few of their […]
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Outing: inland sea beach and pizza (and camera goofing)
Along our adventures, in this case, June 2022, we made a return visit to a stretch of beach called Nishwaki
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Evidence: Kerouac in Kobe, Jack in Japan (slowly working on video, maybe kinda…)
Further evidence of “working on some thing” about Jack Kerouac exhibit in Kobe, Japan 2021 – hardly shocking I know,
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Outing: Hosokawa Bizen-yaki Pottery studio
Along our adventures, we went to the notable pottery town of Bizen to visit master potter Hosokawa-san (you may recall
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Japan Life/Travel
Llama & Legend discuss Kominka & Akiya #video
Minka Storytime video with Jaya Thursfield (Tokyo Llama) & Alex Kerr (Chiiori etc). Both speakers at the recent Minka Summit
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Outing: Somen day out in Kurashiki
We were recently (mid July 2022) invited by our friend Hatsumi (you may know her as the flutist in the
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Outing: Tsuchida (mini) Matsuri
With the public health conundrum is the last few years, the usual neighbourhood festivals have been cancelled including our small
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Notes to Future Self, Writing Life
Quote: “a book is…” Baudelaire
“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude
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Writing Life
Gary Snyder Tribute from Library of America
The great poet Gary Snyder’s “entire” collection of published – and previously uncollected works – was recently assembled and published by
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Ichiro meets Ichiro sensei + airplanes and fireworks in Noto
(Then i noted): He comes home today. I used to wanna be a rockstar or a pro hockey player and
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Book + Writing Ideas / Fragments, Writing Life
Riff: A bunch of stories to finish, eventually (maybe)
[Audio transcript from an updated/location undisclosed recording / Pasted, uncorrected] Some of the projects I want to make over the
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Japan Life/Travel, Spontaneous Snaps
Time traveling to Café Independants (sic), 2015 / 2022
Time traveling to sometime between the wars in a basement bar somewhere in France (or maybe more recently in Kyoto
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Japan Life/Travel, Portraits of the Artiste
Gold & Silver, Silver & Gold / daveo at Kyoto temples (years apart)
“Stake my future on a hell of a pastLooks like tomorrow is coming on fastAin’t complaining ’bout what I gotSeen
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Japan Life/Travel, Kinfolk + Pals, Portraits of the Artiste
Family at Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto
Your Olson pals at Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto (wiki / map / inside kyoto) on a trip in April 2022. Blurb: Ginkaku-ji
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Item: Kevin Kelly’s (massive) Vanishing Asia photo book + bonus advice
I bought Kevin Kelly’s massive Asia photo book series through a crowd-funding-dealio >> [intro at his website] arrived recently and
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Music / Rock
REM / IRS signing press release (with annotations)
“I read IRS honcho Miles Copeland’s autobiography recently and he talked about REM being the most low maintenance, easy to
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