I fondly remember the Potato and Bacon Pies from when I went to McDonald’s in Tokyo in 1992. I’m happy to see that they still have lots of unusual items available. The Korean barbecue beef burger was probably the best, but the curry pies they have now are pretty yummy, as is the tofu burger.
If you’re vegetarian, don’t get excited – I am told that the tofu burger also contains chicken. They don’t really “do” vegetarianism in Japan.
There’s a lot more to this game than meets the eye. Or so it says here.
Another few fantastic hours in Middle Earth. Breathtaking to look at, but was it as engrossing as the first one? Anyway, I sat in amazement for most of it and I’m eagerly awaiting the Return of the King.
Is there such a thing as a sleazy ’60s noir road movie? If there is, then this is the soundtrack to it. The Raveonettes make sharp, guitar-based retro-rock (what?), they have wonderfully exotic-sounding names, and they’re much better-looking than the White Stripes.
A summary of all the news on the Web. The Newsblaster computer program reads news websites and creates summaries. Since they’re computer-generated, the summaries are sometimes a bit incoherent. So it’s just like reading CNN.com. An interesting idea, if nothing else…
Initially, this book is very disorienting. It’s a set of short descriptions of a strange, primitive society based on our own. Common words (house, dog, wire) take on bizarre meanings that you just have to guess at as you read deeper into this world. The whole thing is like a particularly unsettling and weird dream. By the end of the book, I felt I almost started to understand it. I’ll be reading it again.