02.17.05 "Shoot...the glass." Some more post-Japan musings on how it was different, why I left and a breif mention of the play I was involved with.
12.16.04 - Hindsight and other appetizers suitable for those dining on ashes What I think of the JET Program, in a nearly suitable for publishing format (if only I could lay off the F-bombs).
11.23.04 - I'll admit it, I'm what most would consider a little short for a stormtrooper I bought a Subaru SVX and drove it across the country.
09.13.04 - What was wrong with unreality?? Hightlights from the Penny Arcade Expo and a bunch of panoramic photos from the past few years.
Month of August - It's in that place where I put that thing that time Not a lot going on while I pack up and head back to the States. I do, however, get around to posting six pages worth of Tokyo photos from my last trip to... uh, Tokyo.
Months of June & July - Suck it, Trebek! I'm gettin short on time in Japan and it shows. Me and Kiwi meet up with Ben for one last night o' drinkin at Lab Z. I unearth perhaps the only remnants of the ALT at my school before me and my favorite takeout restaurant comes out with one last bit o' Engrish for me to remember them by.
Month of May - Um, I was sitting there... Friends having babies, rubber sports chickens, a trip to pusan and unlikely web searches resulting in Hair Flap.
Month of April - Yeah, like you weren't thinking it LCD vending machines rule. I'm a moody bitch. In one fell swoop, all my favorite teachers are told by The Man to pack their bags and go to other schools. I also took some semi-pretty pictures.
Month of March - Trapped in a World of Internal Monologue A Tale of Engrish, my new phone swag, a neato Japan-ish video game, the unabashed coolness of iChatAVand some random photos. All in this month's exciting episode of Hair Flap.
Month of February - Sweep the Knee! Desktop pictures! Karate Kid DVD box set! Kumate-sensei with random handles! My photos in a well-known computer magazine! Dead puffer fish! Random photos of neato light! What doesn't February have!?!
Month of January - But that's not what I meant With apathy as my ally I shall conquer all!! It also seems to be snowing in Fukuma. Brrrrrr.
Week of 12.19 - Wishing I were a Ninja since 1991 My comprehensive review of The Last Samurai with a relevant segue into a sililarly comprehensive review of Dogs and Demons, a must-read for anyone interested in Japan.
Weeks of 12.01 & 12.08 - Not one of those bogus everyday miracles, like a sunrise. Yeeees, I'm complaining again. This time the bitching and moaning is in the key of kerosene... heaters that is.
Week of 11.21 - I told you, don't call me Eugene Fukuma has it's own town song! Download it! Also, Japanese Hip-Hop sucks. Download some of that too!
Week of 10.27 - If I drink any more, I will drown Uhhh, lotsa stuff happened.
Week of 10.06 - Pyropractic I crashed on my bike; Ouch. And am I the only one that thinks a shamisen bemani game is taking the genre just a biiiit too far?
Week of 09.22 - Nob Hill, 97210 My virtual postcard to Fletcher to let him know how Fukuma is doing now that he's not here. Also, three songs you haven't heard until you've heard them karaoke'ed.
Week of 09.09 - THIS is the Ring Trick Another week of laziness. Only one post, but it's about a cool application to help with your Japanse studies.
Week of 09.01 - Getting to the Bottom of It All I retreat to a nearby island paradise for a Salsa festival, Big Matt turns 25 and some guy jumps off a bridge to celebrate it all - caught on video!!
Week of 08.22 - The Color of Television I'm back from Kyoto - See what I saw.
Week of 07.14 - Just a Smidgeon Everyone gets together to celebrate Gareth's impending marriage by riding big machines. Fletcher and Matt get drunk in a park with a homeless guy while playing chess. In other news, contracts are over and lots of JETs are going home, including Fletcher, but not before one last bizarre trip to see a Japanese baseball game.
Week of 06.09 - Um... ouch... The excrutiating agony of having to give a demonstration class in front of 50 teachers I don't even know.
Week of 06.02 - A day, just like all the rest... Some nights just happen, my most artsy entry to date.
Week of 05.26 - The Hair Flap has you. Matrix Reloaded came out here this week so I treat to you my highly-valued opinion of it in a rock-roarin' review. Yeah, it was a slow week.
Week of 05.19 - No one is listening to you... There's a few things this week, but the big ones are the sneak preview of the Fukuma English Town Guide and my no-holds-barred mocking of the annual Sports Festival.
Week of 05.12 - Would you like some more tea? Nobody does cults like Japan! And after you're done with that, here's some other good sites that have been brining people to me - go give em a look-see.
Week of 05.05 - Jump to the jam, boogie-woogie-jam-slam Me and Helen went to the beach and got trashed. Me & Fletcher make fun of each other when we should be working. And I totally got laid.
Week of 04.28 - Take my advice, or I'll spank you without pants. I talk webcomics for a bit and then share some pics from yet another weekend in Kumamoto.
Week of 04.22 - Yes, child, I remember you... I've been gone for two weeks so I basically spend the week bringing y'all up to date on me. Me, me, me. This website is mine!! About me!!
Week of 03.31 - Fun on a bun. It's Aprli so I have to say goodbye to basically all the teachers I like. Suck. :( I also share a random smattering of a week's worth of pictures taken with my cel phone camera. Vicarious living at it's best, baby.
Week of 03.24 - Kickin' more knowledge than your momma's got leg hairs! A few interesting Japanese language lessons to tide you over while nothing interesting happens during spring break. Well, excepet for Rory sleeping on my floor, that was pretty cool.
Week of 03.17 - Somebody Kill Me Behold, my worst day in Japan yet. :( I did, however manage to get a few good photos from this year's graduation trip with my teachers.
Week of 03.10 - Quiet, or you'll taste the back o' me hand! Behold my bounty of American groceries from Costco!! It's also time to round up the 3rd year students and send em packing again, but not before a good old-fashioned school cleaning.
Week of 03.03 - Biting the Bullet I go to the doctor's office again, and I finally get my satellite dish hooked up. Ahhh Discovery Channel and Simpsons, is there anything sweeter?
Week of 02.24 - Same old rules: No eyes, No groin Janken, janken for everyone!!
Week of 02.10 - Seldom Raining, Often Pouring My Second Annual Town Office
DrunkfestGroup Trip, featuring the First Official Hair Flap Postcard Contest. I also offer another excerpt from one of our English textbooks; it still involves death, yet somehow manages to be sweet. Huh?
Week of 02.03 - Sans Title Farewell to the crew of the Columbia. And get this, I dreamt I was Shazam!!
Week of 01.27 - No Comment I go over my Trip to Kumamoto Checklist. Karaoke, drinking & snogging... yep, everything seems to be in order here.
Week of 01.20 - 20% The final installment of the Hong Kong saga as well as a brief encounter with someone that still actually uses an abacus.
Week of 01.13 - Dogs/Cats/Kitten/Puppy Recapping my trip to Hong Kong with Dan, Bob & Mark.
Weeks of 12.16 & 12.23 - What exactly does Japan have against eggnog?? I love Christmas!! I share a few of my favorite holiday traditions as well as delve into three Christmas Top 5 lists.
Week of 12.09 - Looking for the way in, Searching for the way out I'll be honest, this week is really not all that interesting. There was a poll to see how you found out about Hair Flap and a funny picture posted. That's it. Move along, nothing to see here.
Week of 12.02 - Play some Skynard! Nicole comes to visit and she helps me show off the beauty and power that is my cel-phone camera. After that, it's the yearly volleyball class match at school, and Homeiz™ are showing up in the oddest places.
Week of 11.11 - Purity Control Central I introduce the Japanese Ellen, do my Wolfgang Puck impression and reveal the secrets of why tennis in Japan sucks while tennis on Dreamcast rules.
Week of 10.29 - Nothing Clever to Say Dammit, I hate Daylight Saving Time! Join me on a garbage-cleaning session with my 3rd year students. I also mention a couple o' potentially useful applications for OS X users.
Week of 10.25 - Not a blog, not a blog, not a... When mosquitos aren't eating me alive and keeping me up all night, I make concerted efforts to show the community how to successfully avoid employing Engrish.
Week of 10.14 - Waving the White Flag Apparently proofreading English is frowned upon at my school.
Week of 10.02 - Hey, Man. Don't Harsh My Mellow. Sometimes I think the Elementary teachers are going out of their way to sabotage my lessons and this phone conversation proves it.
Week of 09.29 - One Week, One Post There's a spider living my bathroom.
Week of 09.23 - Redirecting traffic to more interesting sites since 2001. I get nostalgic in Kumamoto and offer a horrifying excerpt from one of my school's English texts. There's nothing like nuclear holocaust to drive home the importance of English.
Week of 09.17 - Diet Pepsi.... yeah, that'll be the day. A fairly light week in Hair Flap land. The Top 5 Greatest Dreamcast Games Ever are revealed and there's some seriously good links mentioned. Aside from that? Bupkis.
Week of 09.09 - Ellen Has a Posse The long awaited Raves on Japan response to 07.29's Rants. Underworld has a new album out which pleases me to no end and, oh, by the way, I love Ellen.
Week of 09.02 - How could you make up a dance so great?! I have trouble even calling this an update. One post for the entire week.... and it's about nothing at all!! Lo, the shame.
Week of 08.25 - "Coruscant, the entire planet is one big city!" A special one-time only edition of Tokyo Hair Flap detailing my 9-day trip to quite possibly the biggest fucking city in the world. So damn big that it's not just a city, it's a fucking city.
Week of 08.05 - Hand me a glowstick, it's time to Rave! Some stupid dog is denied my nachos, so it resorts to humping it's owner's shoulder while Fletcher celebrates by dumping my chicken nuggets all over the floor. While we're on the subject of chicken nuggets, I swear that stupid mandatory health check couldn't have detected if my legs were missing. We've also got a guest writeup by the lovely Angela about one of her daily sights on the way to work. Ahhhh, Japan.
Week of 07.29 - Insert Sound of Hand Slapping Forehead Here Rants on Japan. Find out what drives me up the wall. And while we're at it, Happy Birthday to Wil Wheaton. (wait, what??)
Week of 07.22 - "I must warn you, Captain. I am easily offended." Tonight on Pay-Per-View, Man Vs. Nature in a no-holds... ah, can't we all just get along? Also in this issue: They want to put a thermometer up my what??
Week of 07.15 - plaF riaH amukuF Cold-chillin' with my dead hom... er, my Japanese homiez. Yeah, I am soooo ready for summer vacation.
Week of 07.08 - Kicking it up a knotch... BAM!! Hooray the site is finally done!! Free flowers for all!!
Week of 07.01 - Smitten Humidity sucks. While I work on finishing the site, I pass the buck to Time.com.
Week of 06.24 - Back, Bad, Black and Mad Debut of FHF 3.0 and my sardonically crated reply to some poor bastard who's going to wish he never mailed me.
05.01 ~ Those Pesky Loose Ends My teachers and their fake fish, the retarded ABC song and Yoshizumi-sensei's obsession with "desu, ne."
04.16 ~ A Troubling Lack of Snuff Fletch details just how far he'd go for a bowl of soba and I give a tour of my school.
04.06 ~ The Trip to Tokyo and The Debut of Fukuma Fletch Ninja-nuns, an incomprehensible phone call and pictures of my trip to Tokyo. Fletcher's new column is introduced and takes the nation by storm.
03.25 ~ The Insignifigant Update I ask one of my teachers why Japanese beuacracy is lame and ask you if the school nurse looks like Björk.
03.15 ~ Instant Spring! The third-year students graduate, forced child-labor is employed to clean the school and I'm excited for Episode II.
03.05 ~ Scott Piekarczyk: Professional Gaijin A day in the life of Elementary School hell. I wax philisophical on my obession with commas.
02.26 ~ The NC-17 Update I discover that Kumate-Sensei enjoys saying "shit," while my Town Office staff enjoys going onlong road trips as an excuse to get plowed.
02.13 ~ Pointless Update #2 Music, dancing and bleaching my hair. I also share some bad-@$$ photos of my gakunen trip with my teachers on which we ate live squid.
02.04 ~ Seething-Hot, Cell-Phone Death My cell phone kicks your cell phone's sorry ass.
01.10 ~ Holiday Recap A secret shrine in the hills, my shameful confession of liking musicals and the most evil Santa-Bunny you'll ever fucking see.
12.18 ~ It Would Have Been the Holiday Edition Santa-Scott goes to Kindergarten. School politicians filander for votes. I'm sick and feel like poo.
12.10 ~ A Standard Teachers' Meeting: Leprosy and Land Mines Yes, we actually talked about those things in a meeting. Morimoto-sensei is also a battery-powered eraser-using freak and I have to ride my bike to school every day. My pain is shared via photos.
11.29 ~ Pointless Update #1 is Here!! Dramatis Personae are introduced, me and Fletch take in our first Sumo match and I go to karaoke with seven hot-ass girls.
11.10 ~ I came. I saw. I contributed to the Gross National Product I finally buy a digital camera. A sample of my students work is submitted for your approval.
10.03-10.21 ~ The Unnamed Update My students are perverts. there's a new Garbage album out and my teachers suck at softball.
09.11 ~ Let There Be Light! Look ma, I have a web site! My first two days at work on the JET Program.
