My So-Called Japanese Life

As the end of the year approaches, ones thoughts turn to the annual cleaning binge that comes just prior to the start of the year. While I...

A display for rental of Season 6 episodes of "24". If you wanted to buy Season 6 of "24" in Japan, it'd cost $167 (¥...

" Grey Gardens " is a documentary about an elderly mother and her upper middle-aged daughter. This movie is apparently being made ...

Image pinched from the Wikipedia entry on an especially weak episode of the Simpsons. It's no secret that the Simpsons has been on a sl...

My husband and I have lived in the Stone Age of networking for awhile now and it was only a failing (wired) router that pushed me to finall...

When I mentioned to one of my students that my husband would be in the U.S. for a week while I remained in Japan, she said she thought I...

Promotional shot of Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster from the Jeeves & Wooster television series . I'm not sure who to credit for it as...

inner box I posted about ordering the M*A*S*H complete collection (11 seasons plus the original movie) from Deep Discount DVD and the box a...

Deep Discount DVD is holding a 20% off sale which I believe ends on November 18. In order to take advantage of the sale, you have to enter ...

Previously , I recommended that anyone who buys DVDs sign up for Deep Discount DVD 's (DDD) promotional e-mail messages so they can catc...

September 19 is 'Talk Like a Pirate Day'. This is the only invented holiday which I heartily endorse. This is partially because it w...

This morning I received the first of what will be 3 shipments from a mail order DVD house called Deep Discount DVD . Whether you're in J...

Back before DVD standards were settled upon, my husband and I had to make a decision about what region code we were going to accumulate a co...

"frow him to the froor vewy wough-wy, centuwion" I don't watch much Japanese T.V. unless you count snippets on YouTube posted ...