My claim to fame:
WEbook content manager and proud author of the WEbook blog: http://blog.webook.com/
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Japanese postal system, I was the one-day honorary postmistress of the Osaka Prefecture. I wore a sash with my name written in katakana (that's Jo-o-n-zu), and I gave a 10-minute speech about Benjamin Franklin in presumably incomprehensible Japanese, to a sea of men and women in matching teal suits. Afterwards, I was given a large bouquet of flowers and had my photo taken with dignitaries. Then a tour of the post office (it's pretty awesome in there), a ceremonial hanku-stamping of that day's paperwork, and out to the sidewalk to hand out gifts to utterly bemused passersby. My photo was in the paper, and the whole day was documented and presented to me in a neatly bound album some weeks later, along with an envelope containing 500,000 yen. I no longer have the yen.
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911 Writer's Block
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Rhyme + Rhythm = Reason for Living
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- Four Inch Fetish: Again on the theme of conflict -- I'd like this better if you didn't turn Joanna into a go...
- Botanica Toxica: I'm glad I know your intentions with the format of the book now -- a series of complete, l...
My Favorites:
Title of my memoir:
Guns, Goats, and Goldmines: Tales from the forgotten frontierCurrently reading:
The Magic MountainCharacter I'd like to be for a day:
Charles Wallace from A Wrinkle in TimeFavorite authors:
Tough choice, but I think Nabokov wins for pure "How does he do that?!?!"-edness.Favorite books:
Cloud Atlas by David MitchellLolita by Vladimir Nabakov
Paradise Lost by John Milton
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman