Category: Fukubukuro
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June: The Friendly Confines [Fukubukuro 2010]
Wrigley Field is baseball. No other ballpark I’ve ever been to has exuded quite so much of that je ne sais quoi that makes baseball so great. You know, I think I do know what makes Wrigley so great for baseball. It’s the fact that no matter what year it is, no matter how many […]
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May: You’ve Been Cheated [Fukubukuro 2010]
In their last show as a band, the Sex Pistols played one song and left the stage. Before leaving the stage, Johnny Rotten quipped, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” The thing is, I don’t feel this way for the reasons everyone else might think I might. I suppose we’ll go after the biggest […]
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April: You Can Only Lose [Fukubukuro 2010]
There are many reasons I love baseball, but you know what my favorite little quirk is? It’s impossible for a pitcher’s performance on the mound to win a game by itself. In fact, the only active thing a pitcher can do on the mound is lose a game. Not to get too technical, but a […]
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March: Jetpack Blues, Sunset Hues [Fukubukuro 2010]
I saw Anamanaguchi live for the first time in March and it was everything I could have hoped for on a night that was damn near a disaster. Min and I assembled in Baltimore in front of a tiny club we’d never seen before. Sonar isn’t that far from the harbor. It’s a tiny club […]
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February: Snow [Fukubukuro 2010]
I don’t like snow. This isn’t a secret to anyone who’s met me since I went away to university. Growing up in Florida made snow something of a novelty to me once. It was fun to experience every couple of years. Fun to get a day off from school once in Oregon. Fun to go […]
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January: Reconnecting With The Past [Fukubukuro 2010]
Time sure seems to pass pretty quickly. By now it’s been about six years since I was in high school. Maybe the growth is actually an illusion, but it sure feels like I’m miles away from the kid I was at 18, which makes it extra jarring to run into relics from my past. Tami […]
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Fukubukuro 2010
Unless you happen to understand Japanese, you probably have no idea what a fukubukuro is. The word literally means lucky/mystery bag and it’s a New Year’s Day tradition in Japan where retailers sell bags of merchandise for deep discounts. Since these are “mystery bags”, customers have no idea what they’ve purchased until they open them and […]