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Remember back when I was in Japan and I kept harping on about expensive fruit?
Well, apparently $120 is cheap for a melon. Check out the one that just auctioned off for nearly $6,100!

Here’s the real kicker, though. The watermelon is a bargain compared to the $23,500 recently paid in Japan for a pair […]

What can I say, it’s been a really interesting trip thus far. Yesterday, David and I had to meet with our resellers to do some work for our upcoming meetings this week, but from about 5pm on we had the night to ourselves.
In trying to get to them, we learned a few “fun facts” about […]

Ok, taking off for Japan tomorrow to visit the clients we have there and participate in a few things. Mainly, I’ll be attending TAF 2008. Never been to an anime festival in my life, but hey … first time for everything.
Sorry for the scattered and rare postings. It’s been naturally chaotic pulling together the right […]

The rain sucks, let’s admit it. Everyone in LA is allergic to it. We can neither drive or go outside without making wincey faces when droplets bounce off our normally perfectly moisturized and made-up faces. But besides turning my hair into an afro puff indicative of my old 90s look (way back before flat irons […]

Ok , seriously, why do the Koreans only get to have the fun ?

I’m tired of all the cool shit being sold exclusively in Asia. You know, we got kids at age 11 wanting an extended summer job at a factory too.
Oh, and this weekend, I broke my own “can’t enjoy anything vegan” rule […]

I’m starting to consider running Coke in my engine. I figure, it might as well stay awake if I’m going to have it burn so many calories.

Country of origin: Australia 

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. (Fletcher Knebel)
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. (Evan Escar)

I remember having the conversation years back with my good Armenian friend Levon about our middle eastern holiday meals.
It’s never JUST American food. We gotta slip in the stuff we grew up with, just so our parents can enjoy it too.
Yeah, I mean, it’s always Turkey and Hummus Day for us. Don’t know about you. […]

Garman Herigstad is an experienced Houdini teacher and longtime artist in production. He used to work with me in the LA office of SESI.
In his numerous years of production, Garman spent a lot of time in Asia, China and Thailand to be specific.
One of the cutest things he ever showed me was this little […]

Frankly, I think the only way to celebrate someone’s birthday is to fry stuff. Okay, well maybe there are other facets to celebration American style, but this one sure is popular.
Becca turned … ok I won’t say the actual age, since we are both over the mid twenties benchmark, but we had a BBQ at […]