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Category Archives: Pop Culture

Required Reading: The Wanchai Chronicles

When we were sailing back to Yokosuka from Hong Kong, I was definitely in the dumps. Most of my days were spent reading Skippy-san’s posts about his last trip, at least for a while, to his beloved Hong Kong. I was a bit envious that he was having such a good time in what is [...]

Posted 19 May 2008 Jim § Navy Life § Travel § books ‡ Comments (2)

Screw Rambo, Make “Over the Top 2!”

So this weekend I saw Cloverfield. I completely spoiled it for myself before I went to the theater by reading a bunch of reviews, but it was still pretty cool. One of the guys on the boat, Lloyd, our ship’s resident movie expert, movie snob, Mayor of Creepville, etc., went and saw Rambo instead. [...]

Posted 27 January 2008 Jim § WTF ‡ Comments (1)

Are You Afraid of the Dark? Episodes.

One of my fondest memories of my growing up was watching Snick, a Saturday night lineup of four shows on Nickelodeon. The original shows were Clarissa Explains It All, Roundhouse, Ren & Stimpy, and Are You Afraid of the Dark? AYAOTD was a show about a group of kids known as The Midnight Society [...]

Posted 10 June 2006 Jim § Television § Web Stuff ‡ Comments (25)

Night in Yokohama.

So a few days ago, one of the guys at work suggested that we should all go out to Yokohama and get soem drinks or something. At the end of the day it was just three of us on our way to the T.G.I.Fridays for some food. We had a little to eat a drink [...]

Posted 13 January 2006 Jim § Japan ‡ Comments (3)

Pros and Cons of the New Video Ipod

So I picked up one of the new 60GB Video iPods from Circuit City, and I must say, it’s kinda neat. I haven’t had much time to explore the ins and outs of everything, so I only have so much to go on. Right off the bat though, there are some things that really piss [...]

Posted 13 November 2005 Jim § Techy ‡ Comments (14)
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