Osaka Sumo
I’m heading to Osaka later on today, to attend a Sumo tournament this weekend. I’ve never gone to see sumo live before, though I’ve often watched it on TV. And while I don’t know if he’ll even make an appearance or not, I’ll be cheering for 玉春日良二 (Tamakasuga Ryouji), a wrestler from Ehime, if he does. Expect photos / video if it’s not banned next week. I’m stoked! Other than sumo, be on the lookout for a photo tour of a nearby uninhabited island, hopefully some video clips (provided I fix a sound capture issue), and the obvious random crap that lands on this blog lately.
Also, since the name of my prefecture, Ehime, came up, I thought I’d throw this gem out there. Last week, Dennis Miller responded to a question I submitted ages ago to his website. He has a video podcast called The Bathrobe Sessions, you see. On the March 6th episode, my question came up, asking for his worst hair choice to the best of his memory. But he had difficulty with my name (pronouncing it “Deez”) and then my location information. It seems like half of it showed up from America, and the other half from Japan. So he read “Mt. Pleasant, Ehime.” He pronounced Ehime “Eee-hyme.” Ha ha ha. I called into his show on last Friday to correct that - all is now well with the world. Yup. I have been upgraded from “Hater from the Future” to “Contemplative Ninja.” Sweet.