We were staying in the business district in Osaka, and nothing was geared to tourists. Very few people spoke any English, which was great practice for me, and even better practice for my wife to not talk for once. Great trip, except for the occasional language problem like above. 

 Well, congratulations on your successful trial by fire, and welcome to the party! 

Yeah, this was thirteen years ago already(!), and it feels like a different era. But in our case there was a post office just a block or two away from our hotel, so it was petty convenient once we figured it out.

No matter how hard that you try, you will always lack the key phrase that you really need. When I went to Japan in 2006, I had read that you did not need to bring much currency with as you could exchange for yen at ATMs. The first thing that I did when we got off the plane at Kansai was to hit up an ATM, and it…

Perkins starred in one single theatrical feature between Psycho II and Psycho III — Crimes of Passion. The style of his own Psycho III is much more akin to that film than it is to the previous film in the franchise -- garish colors, sweaty sexuality, broader acting, surrealistic touches, etc.  It is like Perkins was…

Psycho III is even more interesting when you consider who Perkins had been working with at the time. Richard Franklin, who directed Psycho II, was every bit a Hitchcock disciple, and that film is an effective homage to Hitch. But Perkins had been spending time under the tutelage of Ken Russell prior to making his own…

Forty-four years later, and that is still an open wound.   Thanks for pouring salt into it!

I’ll leave you to shut off the lights and lock the door, because clearly there is no further need for the internet today. 

Hmmm.  Apple fritters?

RS owner here who loves driving his wife’s Volt with maximum regen. Is it the same thing? Of course not. But it still satisfies some of the same urges. Interestingly enough, she cannot drive a stick right now (lack of practice more than lack of ability,) and she generally does NOT use regen.  So there is some kind of…

They should have passed a resolution condemning stupidity in all its forms, but they are of course too stupid to understand stupidity when it is staring them right in the face — or when they are stupidly committing it.

It was not just that she went after him; it was that she was really, really good at it. She got way under his skin and offended his sense of establishment privilege. He was not expecting it and it really put him on the wrong foot. And the dirty bastard deserved every minute of discomfort. The way that she reasserted…

It was not just that she went after him; it was that she was really, really good at it. She got way under his skin and offended his sense of establishment privilege. He was not expecting it and it really put him on the wrong foot. And the dirty bastard deserved every minute of discomfort. The way that she reasserted…

 This needs all the stars in the world.  And speaking as a crusty old white man from Minnesota, I could not possibly be prouder of her for the way that she put the screws to the utterly loathsome Elliott Abrams.   Calling a lying war criminal a liar to his face is exactly what this country needs more of.   She is…

“Goddammit, not reruns of In Living Color AGAIN!”

Yes, pork belly & sweet go together like peanut butter & chocolate:

 If you have to ask. . .

 If you have to ask. . .

Only a decade? 

The real scandal is that she must have really been running with Paul Ryan. 

Biscoff spread is satanic.  Open a jar at your own risk.  It will possess your soul.