http://www.michaeljohngrist.com Ruins, Haikyo, Writing, Tokyo Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:27:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 michaeljohngristhttp://feedburner.google.com http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/tokyo-blogger-meet-up-at-mikes-pink-cow-art-show/ http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/tokyo-blogger-meet-up-at-mikes-pink-cow-art-show/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:19:51 +0000 MJG http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=4569 Last night was the premiere of my buddy Mike's art show at the Pink Cow in Shibuya. He had invited a hotch-potch mix of our old frisbee friends, students, work-mates, and also a few guys from the Japan blogosphere. The event was a blast and I believe several paintings sold]]> http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/tokyo-blogger-meet-up-at-mikes-pink-cow-art-show/feed/ 1 http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/nuclear-craters-in-the-marshall-islands/ http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/nuclear-craters-in-the-marshall-islands/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:28:14 +0000 MJG http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=4534 The impact is immediate and massive. In a second the fireball of flame, earth and smoke spreads almost four and half miles wide, engulfing everything within its path, visible over 250 miles away. After one minute the atomic mushroom cloud reaches 47,000 feet high and 7 miles wide.]]> http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/nuclear-craters-in-the-marshall-islands/feed/ 2 http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/star-wars-fans-in-cosplay-dress-off/ http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/star-wars-fans-in-cosplay-dress-off/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:30:40 +0000 MJG http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=1772 Makuhari Messe is one heck of a ginormous exposition facility, big enough to accomodate the Millennium Falcon, Jabba the Hutt, numerous Darth Vaders AND Han Solo's ego all at once. When Star Wars came to Tokyo, I had to go along to help celebrate.]]> http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/star-wars-fans-in-cosplay-dress-off/feed/ 0 http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/exploring-an-abandoned-castle-of-japans-warrior-monks/ http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/exploring-an-abandoned-castle-of-japans-warrior-monks/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:13:45 +0000 MJG http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=4528 Japan is riddled with shrines, in the city-center, in the countryside, suspended out over harbors and on top of mountains. From time to time these wooden complexes go bankrupt. The monks pack up and move out like franchisees out of rent money.]]> http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/exploring-an-abandoned-castle-of-japans-warrior-monks/feed/ 9 http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/catman-on-the-loose-in-ikebukuro-station/ http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/catman-on-the-loose-in-ikebukuro-station/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:50:56 +0000 MJG http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=4515 Worse than a monkey on the loose in Shibuya station is Catman on the loose with his bag of cats. Catman wanders the station's underground aisles dropping kittens on various statues wherever he goes.]]> http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/catman-on-the-loose-in-ikebukuro-station/feed/ 10