Samsung World Championship Sunday: Na Yeon Choi Loses 7-Shot Lead, Beats Ai Miyazato with Walkoff Birdie
The final round of the Samsung World Championship turned into a duel between 2 players: Na Yeon Choi and Ai Miyazato. But it sure didn't look that way for the 1st hour or so of play today. Choi picked up where she left off yesterday, making birdies ...
Jero + Utada = HIMEKA?
A Mostly Harmless regular pointed me to an article by Junko Hirabayashi about Catherine St-Onge, a Canadian singer who's made it big in Japan performing "anison," or animated songs, in Japanese. Sounds like Quebec's answer to Jero!Sony Music Japan Int...
sf@SF Is Back!
Just a little public service announcement for those who come to Mostly Harmless looking for stuff on sf, anime, and other aspects of American and transnational popular culture: I've got students in both my undergraduate classes this semester signing u...
PGA/Futures Tours Not-Quite-Live-Blog
Yes, Tiger's going for his 15th major at the PGA Championship while Mina Harigae's only going for her 4th Futures Tour win at the iMPACT Classic, but don't think for a second that the results of today's competition mean any less to the contenders on th...
Ponyo’s Out This Friday!!
Here's a little exercise in comparative trailer study. First, a Japanese trailer for Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo:Now, an American one:Observations? Conclusions? Daniel Thomas has the link to finding show times and places!
Look Out, T-Joh!
P1040511Originally uploaded by the_constructivist18Yes, I know that Tiffany Joh is the best golfer-blogger-singer-songwriter-cartoonist-videographer on the planet, but she'd better not look in her rear-view mirror, 'cause onechan's on the road to golf ...
Walking the Wegmans with Onechan
No, this is not a post about taking my 5-and-a-half-year-old daughter to the grocery store. Sorry to disappoint you.What this is about is the road trip a jet-lagged onechan and I took to the Rochester area to spend Saturday and Sunday at the Wegmans L...
Onechan, Wegmans LPGA Sketch Artist
Onechan: 1st Green, Locust HillsOriginally uploaded by the_constructivist18Here's onechan's take on what she had seen on the 1st hole of the Locust Hills Golf Club, while following Mika Miyazato, Na Yeon Choi, and Reilly Rankin. For context, click here.
