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Baseball 1A

August 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

About a year into my stay in Korea I got pretty wrapped up in audio book University-style lecture series. The most common brand of these is The Teaching Company,  but there’s another called The Modern Scholar. TTC advertises in  Harper’s, The Atlantic and  I  believe the  NYT. My guess is these are often used as [...]

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I Guess Provocative Might Be One Word to Describe it

August 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Japanese girls dancing in high school uniforms? Ok, sounds fun. Dancing in said uniforms to music taken from an Xbox 360 game? Ok, not exactly my thing, but I still like the dancing. Doing said dance in said uniforms in front of the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima?
Ummm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EBhqhz0a5k

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Japanese Brewery Releases Cheap Blotto

August 29th, 2008 · 8 Comments

According to the Daily Mainichi  Kirin Breweries has unveiled a new beer with a lucky seven percent alcohol content. Called “Strong Seven,” the beer will sell for around 141 yen ($1.28) for a 350ml can, and 197 yen ($1.80)  for a 500ml can.
Are those prices correct?!

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