Archive for February, 2007

Who’s your Daddy? - a love call from Shikoku

After eating what was potentially the worst cream puff of my life this afternoon at the local Willie Winki, I was motivated to write an article on Beard Papa. Having been relocated to the arse-end of Shikoku for the past month, I think you can safely assume that I’m missing a bunch of the [...]

J-WOTD: 左団扇 (ひだりうちわ)

ひだりうちわ (hidariuchiwa)
* “J-WOTD” = “Japanese Word of the Day”
The uchiwa is a type of fan, which these days is generally made of plastic and handed out at festivals or in front of train stations for advertising during the heat of summer. Here it is combined with hidari, the word for left, to literally mean to [...]