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Last newsletter of the year and of the decade. お世話に成りました！
https://tinyletter.com/chadkoh/letters/december-2-9-end-of-the-month-the-year-the-decade
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Replying to @wesinjapan
Feel your pain bro 🤝
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Replying to @wesinjapan
This year I moved to Japan so I could journey around Kyushu and write a travelogue… 🙄
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End of year, end of decade, roundup! http://chadkohalyk.com/2020/12/31/best-of-2020/
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Replying to @chadkoh
They kind of taste like Elephant Ears/Saddle Blankets/Beaver Tails that you would get at the fair. You DEFINITELY do not need to drawn them in whipped cream and chocolate sauce like my addict children
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Replying to @chadkoh
The last photo is of my ceramic coffee filter
http://chadkohalyk.com/2020/12/09/ceramic-coffee-filter/
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Last day of 2020 made these delicious 餅米 sugar and cinnamon filled fancy Korean pancakes for breakfast 🥞
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Replying to @Pinboard
Filter out tweets. We can do USER + TWEETS to see all of our archived tweets, but I would like USER - TWEETS so I can see all my bookmarks without my tweets mussing things up.
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Replying to @chadkoh
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/74983fc835bf4ac6d7a17faf94612d53f4b5a3e8
Turns out he is from Fukuoka and works on the ferry route. On the way to Tsushima he fainted on the boat, so they dropped him off here in Ashibe. He tested positive. This is our first case for 4 months. Most of our cases date back to March (total 13).
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Just had the announcement over the island emergency system. Seems like 5 new cases of coronavirus discovered on Iki on the 28th. 1 person is in hospital. No info on the other 4 (assuming self-isolating?). There are only 4 corona beds on the island in total. #ikijima #壱岐 #壱岐島
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Replying to @alanb
Yeppers… we even got a few fat flakes falling on Iki
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Working on the last newsletter of the year, and the decade, right now. For delivery tomorrow night.
Sign up if you haven’t already 👉 https://tinyletter.com/chadkoh
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Replying to @aukema_jk
Not of this specific case. Saw a piece in JT a couple days ago talking about Kansai post-corona, and it mentioned privatization ideas coming up in Kyoto. SMH
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Replying to @aukema_jk
Just to be clear, this is me facepalming the Kyoto admin, not you! I saw the comments before about privatizing various things to “balance the budget” earlier. Terrible!
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Replying to @aukema_jk
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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RT @BungakuReportEN: From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
By Pankaj Mishra (Author), FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 201…
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With the release of my new Kyoto Journal piece I rounded up all the writing I did for others this year, and some of my challenges/goals. More to come in 2021! http://chadkohalyk.com/2020/12/29/new-writing-elsewhere-by-me/
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Replying to @chadkoh
Check out the table of contents. I feel very lucky to share pages with writers such as @PicoIyer, Natalie Goldberg, and more. 🙏 3/3
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Replying to @chadkoh
Sneak peek of my piece called “On Location.” Features some of my photography from around #ikijima #壱岐 and Kyushu. I had to dig really deep for this essay, examining myself and the question “why I travel?” 2/3
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Latest issue of @kyotojournal has dropped! Includes a piece by yours truly on travel writing. Over 200 pages of essays and photography, available digitally for ¥550
https://kyotojournal.org/product/kyoto-journal-issue-99-travel-revisited-digital/
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Full moon soon. So clear right now! Too bad my iPhone can’t pick up the details on the moon… 🌝
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It is +15 so we have all the windows and doors open for spring cleaning! 🧹🧽🪣🪄
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RT @TheBrowser: “A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world”
— John Le Carré, 1931-2020(original)
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RT @jackmtchia: Oh no.. 😰
https://religionnews.com/2020/12/10/buddhist-temple-attacks-rise-as-covid-19-amplifies-anti-asian-american-bias/(original)
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Clear cold night from the judojo. #ikijima #壱岐
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@FootballRamble @lukeaaronmoore Alt version of “Fire in the belly… “? https://twitter.com/MFDOOM/status/1319398192597897228
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Merry Xmas villains! https://youtu.be/EwzBjBHfDIs #MFDoom
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Replying to @chadkoh
Nice! Couple of little slips but she just keeps getting better.
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Replying to @chadkoh
Nice 1-handed cartwheel!
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About to watch #紀平梨花 skate. Saw her live in Kelowna last year. She posted a photo on her IG of the present my daughter threw on the ice for her. Different times…
頑張れ梨花ちゃん！We are supporting from Iki!
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Replying to @pjacksonmusic
We cancelled our trip home a while back. We thought about going to Aso, way out in the country, but would have to take a ship, so decided just to sit still on our island. Jiji is alone in Kyoto for the first time (Baba passed away in March, not of corona).
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Time for a little cocoa and A New Hope… Xmas tradition!
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Replying to @bdjoetsu
Yeah we are in the final phases (They are 11 and almost 9). I basically FORCED them to watch Christmas films every night in the run up to get spirit. This is our first Xmas in Japan, and my parents always were the big providers of atmosphere back in Canada.
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Replying to @bdjoetsu
We actually slimmed it down a lot this year. Basically each kid got a big/expensive present, a small present, and then basically just wrapped up a bunch of different snacks/treats that we normally don’t allow. It worked out pretty well since nothing will go to waste.
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Cleaned up everything… had lunch… still putting together some stuff while yawning… lots of smiles this morning. A little disappointment (no flying squirrels for pets 🐿 ). How was your Xmas? 🎄🎄🎄
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Replying to @davidrmunson and @JapanWritersCon
👏Respekt
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Replying to @Nihonpolitics
Nice! But no filter rinse!? SMH
一服する人に優しい☕️を
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Replying to @letterboxd
Although that Chinese restaurant scene… 😓
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Was 13 degs out this afternoon, but at least our cake is having a white Christmas.
Merry Xmas to all of you!
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Replying to @wesinjapan
The northern tip of the island is where Hideyoshi built a castle as a staging point for Korea. Apparently they had brought a lot of Kyoto girls for entertainment, so Katsumoto-Ben has a lot of Kyoto-Ben in it. The shotengai is *very* Kyoto looking now to reinforce that heritage.
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Replying to @wesinjapan
I still don’t know the rules for ケン and ト. I did Linguistics at uni so I am usually pretty quick to pick up on those things. Iki has its own hōgen… there are even differences between the four main areas of the island!
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Replying to @wesinjapan
Now my Japanese is a weird mishmash of Kansai-ben and the neutralizing effect of Nagoya-ben. I am very confused here in Kyushu 🤪
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Replying to @wesinjapan
When I took my first Japanese class in uni my prof was shocked. I had been living with my girlfriend from Kishiwada for years, even pulled in Danjiri… just thought everyone spoke that way 🤷♂️
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Replying to @wesinjapan
My daughter got some bad marks on her 敬語 test in 国語 this semester for replying in 京都弁 😂
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We arrived in Japan on Dec 31st, and in the morning the hotel served osechi at the buffet. I mixed it up with some tater tots.🍘 We visited relatives and scouted Iki before returning to Canada. The next time we came back to Japan was in the early days of covid. What a year… https://twitter.com/dmoren/status/1341912653212643329
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Replying to @dwvcd and @nosword
If you think about it hard enough, I am sure you will find all children’s cartoons are fueled by the blood of innocents. 🤔
I mean, didn’t Gargamel literally WANT the blood of the Smurfs?
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Replying to @dwvcd and @nosword
The “Missy Piggy” of Japan, but more beloved and less backhands?
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Replying to @nosword
Look up “slow travel” on the web to find options. There is an amazing amount holiday stuff I never would of thought of, plus regular transport options. The REAL binds of globalization are freighters.
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Replying to @nosword
You can if you like. Generally freighters have two messes, one for officers and one for crew. Based on the book I read, the passengers had a choice of which.
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Replying to @nosword
Just read a book about a guy who took his family overland from BC to Zanskari Buddhist temple, through Korea, China, Tibet, and Nepal. Their freighter had wifi… a pool and sauna… and a karaoke room! 🎤
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