Monthly Archives: August 2007

Underground

I just finished Hiruki Murakami’s nonfiction work, Underground, about the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attacks. The short version is that five very senior members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult released sarin gas on five different trains in the Tokyo … Continue reading

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Watermelon lobotomy

Recently we had a party at our apartment and I wanted to do myself one better than last year’s lychee bubbletinis. So in addition to making tapioca pearls and this time soaking them in a dilute honey solution to give … Continue reading

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