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だって...
Gandhi is my homeboy, but my crew just got larger

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ガンジー老師は確かに僕のホームボイだけど、クルーは一人委員増えたな。

チョムスキー先生のことにまだ知らない方は、
こちらへ
# by anti-bling | 2009-08-26 20:58
温泉ing
The there is one thing i love more than Japanese hot springs, its FREE Japanese hot springs.

thanks to Naoki for showing me this gem up near Kamikochi. for directions, contact me directly, i will not betray this to just anyone.


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日本の温泉入浴が大好きです。でも、さらに好きなことがあります。


無料入浴

この間、ナオキ君がこの上高地周辺の素敵な温泉紹介してくれた。 直接メールしてくれると、場所を教えるよ。
# by anti-bling | 2009-08-10 17:40
Bad News
Update- I went back to school and asked about the chick, but unfortunately he/she died the day after she was rescued.

最新ニューズ:  下記の小雀の話ですが、一昨日学校にいたとき、カゴは職委員室になかった。とても残念ですが、そも小雀が救われた日の次の日、死んでしまいましたそうです。
# by anti-bling | 2009-07-02 13:19
People are Weird

Hello everyone.

Thanks for dropping by.

I was kinda moved to write about something i saw today that struck me as odd.

I wouldn't have thought twice about it 10 or 15 years ago, but today it got me thinking, and i just want to let it out of my head on here.

Last night, we had a pretty good storm, lots of rain and wind and all that good stuff. Due to that tempest, when i came into the school that i visit once a week, there was a new member in the teacher's room.

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A beautiful baby swallow.

Apparently, its nest had been blown down in the storm, and some students came across him (or her, i didn't get cozy enough to check) on their way to school.
All sorts of attention was paid to the visitor, a cage was found, water and bedding was provided, and everyone tried to make the lost chick as comfortable as possible.

Which is a great thing, it moves me to no end when i see people going out of their way to take care of other lives. Some students were worried about the chick being hungry, and in between classes caught a bug for food.

And even that was touching, they tried to feed the bug (alive) to the chick, but t was too big for its tiny beak. I told them that the bug had to be cut up, and one boy got some scissors. The poor bug was on his last leg, stressed from trying to be force-fed to a baby bird, and at last was between the blades of a pair of school scissors.

The boy, however, couldn't do it. He couldn't bring himself to close the scissors on the bug's thorax. It was strange to see a boy that couldn't kill a bug to feed a bird. I can't remember how many bugs were sacrificed to much worse fates by myself while fishing for trout.

I ended up taking the scissors and ending the poor insect's suffering, and tried to feed them (unsuccessfully) to the chick.

The whole time, i couldn't get something out of my head.

Here were adults and children, going out of their way to rescue one small life. Moreover, the boys couldn't even kill another life to feed the bird. The gentleness they displayed towards those creatures was squeezing on my tear-ducts.

But at lunch, everyone happily ate fish and sausage.

We sometimes meet some other species, and for cultural or humane reasons, treat them with extreme kindness.

But some lifeforms, for cultural or inhumane reasons, are the object of torture and cruelty.

One baby bird is treated as a guest at a school, while another is forcibly taken from its mother at birth, debeaked with a hot metal knife, crammed into battery cages where it can't lift a wing or lie down because its so crowded (which incidentally is why its debeaked; to keep it from killing its cage-mates when it goes crazy from being kept in unnaturally close quarters), fattened and fed antibiotics to keep it alive while being shat upon from hens in the cages above, and then hopefully killed cleanly before being immersed in boiling water to remove its feathers, and then eventually served at the same school as lunch.

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If the children were taught this, would they question why some lives are treated better than others?

How about you?




人間は変


こんにちわ!

毎度ありがとうね。

ブログで書くのは大変久しぶりだけど、今日ちょっと変なことを見て、それについて書きたくなったんです。

変なことっては、自分だけそう思うかもしれない。実は、10、15年前なら僕でもきっと「当たり前のことだ」と考えたでしょうね。 でも今日、一日中ずっと気になって、言出したいと思う。

昨夜、すごい嵐があった。強風で、雨が結構激しかった。その嵐のせいで、今朝小学校の職員室という職場に、新しいメンバーがいました.

それは、きれいな小雀です。 

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嵐で、巣が飛ばして、迷子のままである小学校の生徒が救ったそうです。この小さな客様のお陰で、いろいろな世話を焼ける生徒や先生たちがたくさんいた。かごを見つかったり、水をやったり、適当なえさを探したりする面倒をみる人々の優しさを見て、僕は感動してしまった。
とくに感激なことは、ある生徒たちが休み時間にグラウンドえさを探して、虫を狩りてきたことです。なのに、虫は結局多きすぎて、小鳥の小さい口に入れなかったんです。虫はまだ生きている状況だから、「とてもかわいそうだ」と思っていた.僕は「だめだ、大きすぎるから、虫を小さい部分にしないと小鳥がたべれないよ」と言った。それに、生徒はハサミをとってきたが、やっぱりそのかわいそうな虫を切れなかった。
その子と同じ頃の虫を沢山ひどく殺した僕は、「おもしろいな」と思って、虫の苦しみをなるべく早く終わらせて、小鳥さんにえさをやってみた。
そんなことを見ながら、何かがずっと気になってた。
その小さな命に気を焼ける優しさの表現は超感激だった。

でも、昼食でみんなはそういう気持ちを無感のままで魚やソセージを美味しくたべました。

人生の中で、生き物を優しく扱ったり、残酷に見捨てたりするのは、心や文化次第ですね。

例1.以上に書いたその小雀ちゃんはとても大切に救われた。
例2.同じ小学校の給食のため、ヒョコちゃんにいろいろなひどいことが生じる。小鶏は卵から出てすぐお母さんからとられ、(すごく不自然な狭いかごの中に他の鳥を傷しないように)口先が熱いナイフで切られ、太らせながらホルモンや抗生物質とえさを食べる(だって、大規模な畜産場のなかに、何千のかごが重なって、上の鶏は下のに糞をかける状態は汚いから、すぐ病気や伝染病が増やしてしまう)。運が良かったら、その鶏は羽取り用のお湯に入れる前に、うまく殺されることが済む。

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心優しい子供たちは、こんなことを教えられたら、大矛盾って感じるでしょうか。

キミは、子供たちの感覚が分かったら、動物の搾取はどこまで許す?
# by anti-bling | 2009-06-24 16:05
Winter Hibernation
Hows it going, eh?

Well, its been an eventful winter, even if there has been no snow. Lots of stuff has been happening, from eco events, to seeing amazing gigs, to onsens, to lots of snowboarding. But i just want to quickly write about one really cool experience i had for the first time.

Since the dawn of recorded time, skaters have gathered together for the ritual of assembling their own places to practice their particular brand of masochism. Although i have been skateboarding for close to 20 years now, i haven't had the experience to really participate in this ritual until this winter.

Hakuba, a ski resort village at the base of the Japanese Alps is home to some of the best snowboarding on the main island of Honshu. As such, snowboarders tend to congregate in places like this. Many snowboarders are not content to stand sideways on a board only in winter, but crave such activities year-round, and many of them sk8. But the nearest skateboard park is in Omachi. There are also 2 very small mini ramps hidden away indoors, but do to their size, they are almost too small to do anything on.

A friend of mine working at the Mominoki pub approached management with an ingenious plan. If management would provide money for the initial outlay for materials, he and his friends would build a proper indoor mini ramp. After it was done, they would hold a big party to open the ramp to the public, and all the money from the cover charge for the part would go to pay for the ramp and his salary.

So it was thus.

I was invited to help out with the building, and it was pretty damn cool, a lesson of DIY principles in action. Designs were found on the internet, tools were borrowed, materials purchased, and we made our own perfect, 3-foot mini.

My friend has experience with roofing and building, and the ram came to fruitation without a hitch. The party was also a great success. As for the ramp itself, i don't think i've ridden any better.

All it took was a small vision, a little cooperation, and hot damn, the sweetest 4-season ramp in Hakuba was born.

Thanks, Clyde


Here's a pic from the opening party


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ワォ、久しぶりですね。

いよいよ春になって、ちょっと雪板の世界から時間がとられ、このブロゴをもう一度書こうと思っています。

冬は、いろいろな面白いことがあリましたね。 エコイベントとか、温泉巡りとか、ライブ等が楽しめた。もちろん、スノーボードのいっぱい滑りました。

でも、人生の初めてのことについてちょっと語りたいと思うよ。

昔から、スケーターたちが自分が楽しんだり、怪我したりできるところを自分で作ったんだ。僕も20年間ぐらいスケーボーをやってたのに、そういう儀式的な物作りを参加したことはなかった。

本州の一流的なスキーレゾート野白馬村では、横滑り大好きなスノーボーダーがいっぱい集まります。雪板道家の中で、スノーボードだけではなく、スケーボー(sk8)をやる人物も多いです。しかし、白馬に、sk8できるところは少ないです。一番近いsk8パークは大町です。村中に、室内ランプも2つあるけど、小さ過ぎだから、滑りにくいです。

あるバーで働いたカナダ人の友達は、いいアイデアがあった。彼はそのバーの社長と相談し、ランプの材料を買ってくれることを説得した。彼の計画は、友達の手伝いでランプをできたら、ランプ開始パーティを行い、その入場料でランプの材料や自分の給料ももらえると考えられた。

計画通り、もみのきパッブのミニ・ランプ伝説が始まりました。

僕もランプ作りを手伝い、とてもDIY的な主義の実行を感じました。材料を買ったり、道具を借りたり、週末大工さんより物作り経験の少ないスケーターの協力で、ばっちりの93cmミニ・ランプが建てられました。 滑ったランプの中で、これは一番総滑りやすい気がします。その後、シーズン中の最楽パーティも行って、大成功って感じました。

よいアイデアとやる気と協力をあわせたら、こんなにいい結果が出たのは感動でしたね。

ありがとう、クライド君!

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# by anti-bling | 2009-03-31 21:24