Lost in Translation



Friends do not let friends carry a katana on their back.

Besides, everybody knows that the sharpest blade is the mind!




Go Figure



For some strange reason...



I've been feeling the curious urge of carrying a katana strapped to my back, of late.

But Nausicaa just said no.



Penny For Your Thoughts





1991, D and I have just begun dating. And we are in Claremont, California, with a couple of friends that I have convinced , along with D, to drive there with me from LA in my old Buick LeSabre to watch a Kabuki production.





It's a Kabuki-in-English performance.



The month is March.



Leonard Pronko is an acquaintance of mine. I took a class with him back in the days I was a student at the Claremont colleges.

As I am writing these lines I just found out that he's passed away, the old coot!



I remember him fondly.

I do not know that the production of Kabuki plays in English is still a thing like it was in those days—including at the University of Hawaii:



Nowadays, Kabuki has become a synonym for thetrical. It is often used to describe politicians suspected of acting insincerely to please their supporters and/or get maximum media attention.

Case in point: