2025 = Top 10 + 1 (& related musings)
{Note to reader: what follows is a spontaneous, stream of consciousness recap of the year… of course i thought carefully […]
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Santa Krampus ~ semi-pro method actor checking in
before rocking the stage, a few notes about representing for the non-union Santa dudes, this time in Tsuchida community centre
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Noto Roadtrip Diary – Postcard #92
Riffing about earthquake scars, zen temples, sea swims, scrapbooks, aliens, dinosaurs & 7″ records while rain falls in an engawa
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“Bear Necessities” from Ichiro’s secret house
oh yeahhhh, ya know that groovy song from the “Jungle Book” right? Well me as Baloo and Ichiro as Mowgli
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Records, Show and Tell
Bonanza Box of Records, Games, Books & Ephemera
Bonanza Box of Records, Games, Books & Ephemera “Beat Scene” book full of photographs (by Burt Glin), letters, and artifacts
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Spoken + Song, Ukulele Goodtimes
Landslide (disaster, on baritone ukulele)
Times makes you bolderChildren get olderand I am getting older too… And if you see my reflectionIn the snow covered
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Kinfolk + Pals, Spoken + Song, Ukulele Goodtimes
Ichiro’s theme (on baritone ukulele)
{at further risk of embarrassing myself ;)} A song for my awesome kid – about who he is, where he
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Diary: relative blessings with the remarkable boy
Me and the incredible Ichiro went to say hello to his great grandfather Ichiro and great grandmother Tomiko, said some
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Shoebox
unfinished milk
He’s back to schoolWhich means:I dump his leftover milkOn my porridge (I should’ve made this into a poem, or did
Theme, maybe: best intentions and all of that
Things I had planned to do today: * Clean fans, cover and take to kura + busted lamp * Same
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Diary: home safe from ill-fated errand (with Ichi funtimes)
Background: Had a real rough go of it yesterday trying to complete one of those seemingly impossible errands that one
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Spoken + Song, Video Dim Sum
Song(ish): Atlantic City with Ichi-Stan & bari-uke #video
Playing “Atlantic City” (not particularly well) on baritone ukulele. You know this song, written by Bruce Springsteen but really owned
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Diary: specs, tea, cards & usual annotations from the fog
Everything old was new again / same as it ever was, same as it never was. Various annotations Nov. 25~27ish
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Collection: (Pay)phones (vol. 11) – assorted Japan hotel/ryokan house phones
As part of on-going documentation of various collections of payphones. this gallery features examples of phones in various states of
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Diary: sundry notes of ukulele, drums, stereo, handy items by post & slices of culture
Sundry tasks: Tended to an “important call with an official agency” about a significant life decision… Don’t mean to be
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