Tuesday, 24 November 2009

One year of Our Man: The celebrations go on (and on)

So, the one-year* birthday celebrations continue throughout this fair land and as far afield as, er, Eastern Europe as folk misspell porn actresses' names and end up with this sorry post here. Allow Our Man a little leeway in spending a post reminiscing, not so much because one year of Our Man in Abiko is worthy of much consideration, but more because he's got sod all else to write about.

In the space of 12 short months** Our Man has gone from trying to explain Japanese culture and politics, to filming folk walking backwards and pretending they are going forwards; from arguing against LDP tyranny to, er, arguing against DPJ tyranny; and from drawing amateurish cartoons to, well, continuing to draw amateurish cartoons.

*One year of OMIA is equivalent to what you can learn from 12 minutes spent here.
** or 10 months, metric, whichever comes first.

5 comments:

Armchair Asia said...

Well, you are beginning to act a bit like the lad, quoting yourself.

However, you still give others credit when you steal their ideas. And say thank you.

And most important, the world really is a better, happier place with your blog showing that Japanese politics is way funny.

Now since one year anniversaries are paper, should I be sending you a copy of the Washington Times or something like that?

jljzen88 said...

Any chance you could make it out for drinks this Friday?

Our Man in Abiko said...

AA- It's rude to send unrecycled toilet paper.

J-88 - Love to, but I don't knock off work till 10 pm on Friday. That any good to you? BTW, Legends Sports Bar has been turned into a yakitori bar of all things, harrumphh.

Jesse said...
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jljzen88 said...

I noticed when I dropped by Tsutaya the other day. Crying same, that is.
10 p.m. is awful late...but perhaps something could be done if that's not too late for you. Shoot me an e-mail, if you would, and lets see if we can hammer out the details.