When I was a kid there were only two types of movies I wanted to see. What came to be known as Blaxploitation films (Superfly, Shaft, Buck & the Preacher, Uptown saturday Night, Let’s do it again, etc etc etc) and martial arts movies, or rather Karate flicks. Bruce Lee was of course the biggest [...]
What can I say? It aint all Manzai and Kawaii kids… Yesterday a woman from the Board of Education came to observe me teach. She’s a nice woman, been at her job for a long time. Not Japanese, I don’t think, but she’s been here so long you can hardly tell she’s not from here. [...]
The day’s grammar point was: I’m too something to do something or I’m so something that I can’t do something. My instructions to the class: Make pairs and prepare a skit using the following guidelines, but feel free to expand beyond it. Let your imaginations run wild: Student A: Hey _____________ , let’s do something [...]
I have two third-year students who, over the course of the past three years, have made it their prime directive to shock and amaze me…and their escapades have escalated with each passing year. Just try to imagine Abbott and Costello, then picture them together as Junior High School students in the 21st century. Now picture them as [...]
“Life’s what you make it…stop whining baby…” From “A place in heaven” by Prince “…It’s not something I’m ready to talk about,” I told him. “Not yet. Give me a few weeks or so…” “Well, can you give me a hint?” He asked. I had him curious now. The cafe around us was filling up [...]
“Life’s what you make it…stop whining baby…” From “A place in heaven” by Prince “Well, you’re not foaming at the mouth or anything…” he replied. “That’s good to know,” I said as my new coffee arrived. “So, what is it? Do I walk around glaring and growling at people or something?” “Nah, I wouldn’t say [...]
“Life’s what you make it…stop whining baby…” From “A place in heaven” by Prince “Stop your whining…and face it: you’re a big black angry man in a little yellow xenophobic land,” he said, with a self-satisfied smile indicating he thought he was being clever, “and you’re going to have to accept that fact, or just [...]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNv59lqRiGM In the opening sequence as well as in a dance scene in Neil Simon’s film Biloxi Blues, a song was used called How high the moon. High high the moon is a jazz standard and every female Jazz singer including Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald have done renditions. But none, (and I should point [...]
I just wanted to take out a moment to wish all my readers a Happy New Year or as they say here in Japan: akemashite omedetto gozaimasu. The Japanese have another little phrase they use quite a bit this time of year and I’ve grown fond of it. It goes: Kon toshi mo yoroshiku onegai [...]
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