MOST RECENT ESSAY

The Rainbow Connection

"I suppose what I would like to do, somehow, is be a Muppet. At least, for a brief moment. To see the world through Muppet eyes, and accomplish Kermit’s dream of 'making millions of people happy...'"

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RAINICHI 2023

  • Hello, Japan. Goodbye, My Japan (RAINICHI 2023 #-001)
  • RAINICHI 2023 #000 – An Introduction
  • RAINICHI 2023 #000.5 - An Immediate Digression Concerning the Japanese Language
  • RAINICHI 2023 #001 PROLOGUE +
    RAINICHI 2023 #001 PROLOGUE     ADDENDUM

Best of Personal Essays

  • In a Town Where I Am Going To Live
  • A Retreat to the Customs Office
  • What More Could You Ask For?
  • Reach Out to the Truth of My Life (Part One) (Part Two)
  • The Graveyard Story
  • You Can (Not) Go Back

Best of Art & Literature

  • Kafka’s Nightmares
  • On the Road to Nekomachi
  • The Boy and the Heron
  • In Xanadu
  • The Daikon Farmer Points the Way, With a Daikon
  • Neil Young's Mesoamerica

Best of Philosophy

  • Heaven & Good Things
  • In The Eyes of the Unfathomable Deity
  • The Internet Made Me Stupid
  • Irreconcilable Distances, Permeable Boundaries, Overlapping Memories