i have to put my "booo" in for religion. but yeah for matzo ball soup in winter. tuna salad is good on matzo. so i guess you never know till you try.

I will also register a boo for religion, but recommend the book "Jews in the Japanese Mind" to anyone who wants to get a critical perspective on Japanese interaction with Jews.

someone mentioned to me that there was a "japanese shindler" during the war, anyone have a reference one way or the other?

Come on, Chris, you could have Googled that one! Don't get lazy on us...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara

Give this a look too:

http://www.shanghaighetto.com/WebTrailer3.mov

Wait, I'm more interested in the "becoming a member of the Episcopal church" part. As a lapsed Southern Baptist, I can only imagine being baptized, but I assume the Episcopalians do something different? Also, why?

thanks Brown

Writer and musician? Wanna be cool, eh? That how you make your living??? I think not. Just another wanna pretenda-be - get out there and do the work. Beekeeper Records - my god - didn't they just buy out Sony? Wanker, with your pretentous arty-farty, I've been to art-school jive. Idiot.

my ip 219.223.42.113

actually your IP is:

210.189.146.76

more info soon.

Hello David,

Im not sure if you have said anything about it before, but i just found out about your blog and i was wondering what are you studying in your master's degree? is it in japan?

I've been to art-school jive

These first timer commenters seem to hate me for the wrong reasons.

How bout your dissertation on a bathing ape, how did u accomplish it? were u working for bape at that moment? im about to start doing mine for playstation or square-enix (media related, im a business major), i find these brands quite interesting, but cant seem to find a specific topic in media and comunication to analyse

Is that BAPE dissertation publicly available somewhere btw?

It's not, but I am selling a fake one on Ebay.

Dag

Is that BAPE dissertation publicly available somewhere btw?

No. It's 140 pages, overwritten, outdated (it was from 2001), and no particularly that great. Read my Nylon for Guys article - it's pretty close to a summary.

how did u accomplish it? were u working for bape at that moment?

I have never worked for Bape. I did a lot of research in Japan and read a lot of Last Orgy 3 columns.

More info on joining the Episcopalians please. Why? Or was this a joke? I never can tell. I kind of thought you were Jewish? (obviously I'm not saying Jews can't become Christians, but it does make the choice more interesting...). I await your reply and Momus's reaction with interest.

Duder, he wrote:

"A little one is becoming a member of the Episcopal church"
He didn't mean he's joining.

Clearly a midget in his family has converted.

Now I feel stupid.

Actually, the American Episcopal Church is getting less staid by the day: Their newly elected leader, the first woman in the post, has said that she doesn't believe homosexuality is a sin. Much like the situation with the American Catholic Church, HQ back across the pond is making noises about severing ties with those wacky Americans and their comparatively radical emancipatory ideals.

And speaking of orthopraxical religion, maybe you can't really buy Marxy's dissertation on the black market, but according to Yoel Hoffmann's "The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers," a compilation of the "right" answers to koans was at one time available to Rinzai trainees for the right price (see the comments about Hoffman's book on Amazon). Seems terribly similar to preparation for college entrance and civil service exams. Enlightenment as a マルバツ試験...

Don't beat yourself up over it, h.. You're better than that.

Brown; the dissertation is available on the black market--like I said I've got a bootleg one up on eBay. Here's an exceprt.

"Took me like half an hour to find the Ape shop, but I finally made my way in. Way more stuff than the Soho joint. I kind of broke down crying. Got way too much but prolley sell half the shit on Ebay. $$$. Ricar would kill for the green camo hoodie I got. Shirts run a little small, but the baggy thing is over anyway."

on the speculation that 6 days without blogging means that marxy has died, I'd like to leave the first tribute testimonial:
"U always were 2 fast and 2 furious 2 live. It's wrong what their (sic) sayin' about U. Were gonna miss U man. C U on the other side, homey. (please imagine a midi of "crossroads" from bone thugs playing at a tasteful volume)"

Actually, marxy's dissertation is publicly available, if you know where to look.

I don't know if I'd call that "public."