Archive for Tag: Richo Rosai
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Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: A Hostage Situation, Japlish Supplemental
Columns by Richo Rosai on I worked until 6 a.m., then slept. It's now 7:30. Existence burns. If it were up to me, I'd search for the most painless death that could be accomplished immediately if only to skip this day, but no! My readers need me....
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Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: Ordering a Japanese Pizza
Columns by Richo Rosai on OK, so, this month, the depths of my procrastination and lack of inspiration have driven me to do something I really don't have the money to do. I'm going to order you a Japanese pizza. And what's mor
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Cheat Codes for Getting Out of Your Damn House
Columns by Zack Huffman on Greetings to all eight of my readers. Sorry I wasn't around last month to supply you with half-assed writing and mean-spirited personal attacks. But then, we all know that I haven't written anything w
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Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: Emoticons
Columns by Richo Rosai on Emoticons are big. Here are some of the stupider ones, copied straight from my cell phone.
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Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: A Screenshot Tour of Mixi
Columns by Richo Rosai on It hurts to type. Would you believe I have caught five colds this year, two of which were different strains of influenza? I thought teaching kids would be an easy supplemental job, but those little fu
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Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: Diary of a Deadline
Columns by Richo Rosai on Walk outside on the first few days of the year in Japan and the design of the Silent Hill will suddenly seem much less creative to you. My naivety regarding just how closed down and deserted my city would be on the 2nd and 3rd caused my original plan for this article to go awry, and now I sit here at 4 a.m. with a scant few hours to come up with an idea. And yet I don't.
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Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: Delivery Health
Columns by Richo Rosai on You may not care too much for unsolicited stuffing of your mail box with ads, and it might be illegal in your country. But what’s your ratio of credit card applications to stuff like this?
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Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: Japanese Graffiti
Columns by Richo Rosai on Scientists estimate that a picture is worth roughly one thousand words. Based on this theory, this will be my most word-valuable article yet, despite containing the fewest words. Yep. JAPANESE GRAFFIT
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Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: A Konami Life on a Capcom Salary
Columns by Richo Rosai on You may have heard that things other than electronics are expensive in Japan. And if you just walk up to the most obvious shops and try to buy things that you normally associate with cheapness back home, you may well get this impression. Indeed, a loaf of bread, 10 slices of bologna and some mustard will fight your homesickness for the old trailer park for a while, but it won’t be easy on your wallet.
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Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: Water on the Sidewalk
Columns by Richo Rosai on Today was a sunny day. For the first time in a while, there was no rain or puddles. This is good, because I don't like to walk through water. But whenever life leaves you alone, you can count on Japan