Once upon a time, I was curious about something. Â Something bad. Â Something I wasn’t supposed to be curious about. Yes indeed this was a dark corner of myself. Â It was a side of me I should repress in polite society, as a relatively young white male with a reputation for sheer physical toughness and stoic Read More …
I was watching comedian Louie CK the other day, and he stated this incredibly true and unsettling fact: “Most people are dead. Did you know that? It’s true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you’re all going to die. And Read More …
I recently saw a news story that was extremely fascinating to me. The Story Of Kakuhido Based in Tokyo, Japan is a group of men calling themselves ‘Kakuhido’, which folks have translated as ‘The Revolutionary Alliance Of Men Women Find Unattractive’. You can see this could go either way…a cry for attention from a group Read More …
I’m sitting at my desk in a gap between lessons, bored, as is often the case. At the reception desk they always play Top 20 billboard radio, and the stuff is torturous. I do my best to block out Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’, again. The track seems unremarkable to me, and yet it’s yet another number Read More …
In our lives we can experience many sides of a similar coin. That made sense when I originally wrote it. Over three years ago I decided to apply for the JET Programme, the Japanese government’s initiative to recruit foreign teachers to teach English in Japanese public schools. I was with the JET Programme for three Read More …