Monthly Archives: January 2020

Life In Japan: Washlets

Posted on January 29, 2020 by johnrachel

Why haven’t washlets, a Japanese innovation I put on a par with the invention of the steam engine or artificial intelligence, caught on in Western countries? Has someone tried to market them to the wiping/smearing/stinky-butted round-eyed barbarians of Europe, the U.S., Australia, Canada, and the rest of the non-Japanese world … and gone bankrupt?  I don’t get it. Continue reading →

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Wild and Crazy in Chiang Mai, Thailand!

Posted on January 4, 2020 by johnrachel

As is standard operating procedure for us, on New Years Eve Masumi and I were well off the beaten path. We certainly weren’t in Times Square. We weren’t wearing a beer guzzler cap. We didn’t do vodka jello shooters, smoke DMT or put magic mushrooms on our eleven-cheese pizza. We never even got around to singing Auld Lang Syne. Between Christmas and New Years, we spent a week in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Continue reading →

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