Arnon’s right. I *should* update this blog more often. Work has been hectic, but that’s no excuse – the whole point of blogging is that I can post from anywhere there’s (a) a browser, and (b) five minutes of spare time. Right now I’ve got both, but the latter just barely…
I marched in a huge Peace Rally in San Francisco on Sunday – around 200,000 people filled Market Street, and it was depressing and uplifting at the same time. Still, I haven’t done enough on the Activism front, and that has to change… I throw money (gladly!) at the EFF and the ACLU, but I realized being at the rally that you get a certain feeling from direct involvement that you don’t get any other way. And while the pragmatist in me says that activism is about effecting change, and not about the feeling(s) you get from doing so, I also know that there’s something to be said for keeping up morale – my own included.
This weekend is more self-indulgent: planning a trip to Japan!! Em and I have never been, so we’re going. Simple (?) as that. So far my list is short – I want to see a big fish market, stay in a traditional ryokan, spend one night in a capsule hotel, and another night in a love hotel. Oh, and of course I want to see Tetsuo and Godzilla battle it out in the skies above Tokyo… Well, I can dream a little. I’m also excited about all KINDS of toilets I’ve never seen/used before, and the subway system, and cool/weird/yummy food, and gadgets, and onsen (hot springs/baths), and all the mecha-manga-pop culture I can soak up in about a week. We leave March 22nd, so if anyone (Arnon – that’s you, that is) has any coolest-things-to-do-in-Japan tips, or knows anyone who does, please send them this way.
Good night, Tokyo – and don’t eat the yellow protoculture.

ps: Okay, this took more than five minutes. Whatever. And yes, Arnon, you ARE the only person who knows about (much less reads) this site. If you want to drive new readers, feel free – we can inaugurate the DanRochman.com Affiliate Program. If the readership reaches 10, there will DEFINITELY be a party of some sort. Maybe our “First Order of Magnitude” party.