I really appreciate that hummingbirds have both a distinctive voice and distinctive silhouette, so it's especially easy to spot them in trees.

I think it's neat the amount of different mushrooms you can see walking the same nondescript suburban paths every day.

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai One of the best to ever do it. An expert at being a wild-eyed, haunted weirdo.

"people"

I've been walking the same route pretty much every day and I've seen probably over a dozen different varieties of cool mushroom (as well as cool birds, cool spiders etc.) and that's probably just because it's the first time I've been looking but I imagine it means I should walk around more areas.

I am jealous of Shoko's Anguirus shirt.

Through October.

As a huge New York Style Hot Dog fan for years, felt compelled to recreate the poster in a high resolution and managed to find the original photo used in the texture Many thanks to folks from VGPC for help with identifying blobs, especially Prominos and TBemme bekoha.github.io/yakuza/New%2...

me, to myself, passing a family going the other direction: I wonder if I should point out the patch of cool mushrooms... ehh, they'll probably see it. Later, behind me: WOW, MUSHROOMS!

Heard and saw a new to me bird as it went across several trees along my walk, and I think it was probably a northern flicker making warning calls!

I helped translate HYPE 3! I highly highly recommend giving the show a try if you have Wrestle Universe. I think it's a really unique and wonderful thing, a bit like if your favorite pro wrestling promotion put on a play but the play was also itself pro wrestling.

I helped translate HYPE 3! I highly highly recommend giving the show a try if you have Wrestle Universe. I think it's a really unique and wonderful thing, a bit like if your favorite pro wrestling promotion put on a play but the play was also itself pro wrestling.

Still find myself taking pictures of those same mushrooms every day.

Today on a wet and windy autumn walk I: heard a super distinct raptor cry, checked on the patch of 3 to 4 dozen amanita mushrooms that are only getting more picturesque so far, and spotted a hummingbird in a tree from its call. A good day for a walk.

just made a blog post on ko-fi on the process of my riso comic, I will teach you how to fish! ko-fi.com/post/Making-...

I always really love finding full-on Super Mario-ass amanita mushrooms in random suburban office parks. I fully would have assumed they were restricted to deep forests in Russia or something.

drew a fun little comic (1/3) #art #ocs #comic

I bet Kitaro and Herbie Popnecker would get along like gangbusters.

Every caption George Herriman writes to describe Bum Bill Bee is a work of pure beat poetry decades before that movement was formally codified. (Krazy Kat)

#TJPW #tjpwWP6 🤼‍♀️ 9.11 contract signing for 9.20 translation: 🌸Why does Miu want to be a princess? 🌸True love? 🌸Wakana may have lost teeth, but she'll be gaining a belt instead! 🌸The Big Kaiju thinks you can't win without biting #translation northernlightsbridge.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/2...

These are actually four haiku. The first three are riffing on famous poems, and the last one seems to be Uta's own creation. Here are the originals: 鳴かぬなら　鳴くまで待とう　　ホトトギス 鳴かぬなら　鳴かせて見せよう　ホトトギス 鳴かぬなら　殺してしまえ　　　ホトトギス #tjpw 🤼‍♀️ #translation x.com/uug_p_uta/st...

Thinking about Monthly Halloween's movie review system. Showed my buddy Story of Ricky yesterday, for example, and that's gotta be max ドバドバ, バタバタ, ゲラゲラ, and グログロ but maybe low ハラハラ.

This was my entry point: a run through of a fully automated yokai haunt.

I'm really enjoying this YouTube channel of silent walkthroughs through Japanese paranormal tourist traps and empty year-round haunt attractions full of yokai animatronics.

Some stuff that's characterized my year, through August.

Spotted some interesting suburban mushrooms. Something like a fairy inkcap maybe?

Joe Pera agreeing to narrate a North Carolina insect labs slo-motion footage of the mechanics of beetle flight and playing it completely straight makes me appreciate him even more. youtu.be/IUQSZHr9h9Q?...

Please donate if you can! Rumini needs to raise $1180 for the treatment. If the fundraiser meets its goal, I and the other folks working on the Hype 3 translation will redouble our efforts, and it'll be much more likely that we'll actually finish it. #tjpw ko-fi.com/deerkings/go...

キュベレイ キャンバス、リキテックス、ガンダムマーカー

WHAAAAA??? #TJPW

It's been a while since I shared these, and I always go back and forth on how much to share online even of only tangentially personal stuff, but I finally caught up on my notes backlog, so here's some stuff that characterized my year one way or another so far. (not meant as a blanket recommendation)

I've been reading stuff in Japanese and also reviewing vocabulary and stuff I encounter in Anki for several years now, and based on the last import, the ratio of my rate of making new cards vs. seeing new cards in Anki is 1:3. Just wild - for the first few years that ratio was easily 20:1 or more.

Thread of more stuff from Pro Wrestling Star Wars by Yasushi Hara and Kenji Minomo

Afternoon Bug Hunt: HUMMINGBIRD MOTH!

The famine in Gaza is absolutely horrific right now, and it's impossible to think about anything else. If you have benefited from my work in any way over the past year, please make a donation to The Sameer Project in my honor: chuffed.org/project/help...

"domineering salaryman gets timeslipped back to 17th century England to serve as captain on a trading vessel, in a series with contributing consultancy provided by a model ship enthusiasts society" is SUCH a Harta concept and I'm... on board.

Manga Randy Johnson (from a 2006 chapter of なんと孫六 by さだやす圭)

Screen-used Sgt. Frog volume from Gamera the Brave

Genuinely, I'm pretty sure my first comic as a kid was part 4 of "The Draco"

Swamp Milkweed in bloom, and a Monarch Butterfly caterpillar dining on it. (21 July 25 / Huntley Meadows Park / Alexandria, Virginia, USA)

some of the miniature conversions to be found in nick borelli's mad MOLD MOLD MOLD monograph

Monarch caterpillar

My conversation teacher said lately he's been going to a bookstore in the morning to buy a book and then stroll around outside reading it the rest of the day, and he did that with To the Lighthouse since he remembered me mentioning it and enjoyed it a lot. Definitely a cool thing to hear!