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When times are tough, it's great when a package of love shows up. Bobby Hundreds asked me for my sizes, and just a week later comes a box of goodies. First an apology. These are the worst shots possible. I didn't do it on purpose, but my camera battery was dying and I rushed through it. Three shots and it died. The Michael Lau figure above is awesome. I never thought I'd get one of these. I...
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When times are tough, it’s great when a package of love shows up. Bobby Hundreds asked me for my sizes, and just a week later comes a box of goodies. First an apology. These are the worst shots possible. I didn’t do it on purpose, but my camera battery was dying and I rushed through it. Three shots and it died. The Michael Lau figure above is awesome. I never thought I’d get one of these. I thought they were gone by now! The plastic on the hands are still on there. I guess you can call it Chinese Opera version. I got three T shirts. I’m trippin on the middle one. The detail of their spoofs are insane. What fun it would be to design that shirt. I’ll wear that one. The logo one is a no brainer. I think I have 3 or 4 of these now. To sort of quote a song by the Untouchables. I Spy for the FBI. one for when you go out, and another for everywhere you go. Again apologies for the bad photo. These shoes are a lot nicer than these shots. I need some new shoes for when my Vans keel over. These are perfect.
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Backyard BBQs are usually about hot dog, hamburgers, and maybe chicken. That's what you do on the bare minimum. Sho from Yoshi's in San Francisco does things differently when food is involved. He goes all out. It's not an event to miss. Here's Sams hands making toro sushi. It's obviously amazing. Look at the pink color. Sushi was being made inside the house while a BBQ of amazing flavors happened...
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Backyard BBQs are usually about hot dog, hamburgers, and maybe chicken. That’s what you do on the bare minimum. Sho from Yoshi’s in San Francisco does things differently when food is involved. He goes all out. It’s not an event to miss. Here’s Sams hands making toro sushi. It’s obviously amazing. Look at the pink color. Sushi was being made inside the house while a BBQ of amazing flavors happened outside. Look at the rich orange color of this uni from Hokkaido. The label is below. The package it came in still had the shipping labels from Japan. Uni is usually a lighter orange, this one possessed a deep, rich color and tasted that way too. The kitchen arena The ikura was also a deeper orange than what you typically see. Sam dealing with the ikura Miles Nakamura and Daniel Wu. What kind of kicks are those? Sho with the straw hat holding a bag of marinated tongue which was amazing. Dan Automator on left, Sam the sushi man and friends Intestines in two flavors and organic chicken. a larger crew Dan and Dan The uni
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I was trying to help Yoshitomo Nara set up his computer with the system in the lecture room, McCormick 101. I had spoken the evening before without a hitch, and the system and his computer weren't talking to each other the next day. It took a while, but we got it going. I was hoping Nara would do the presentation in English, but he opted to go with a highly over qualified translator - the Head...
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