The bilingual comedy group "Pirates of the Dotombori" is doing another show at Tin's Hall (06-6773-5955), a damn fine bar in Tennoji, on Sunday, August 28th, from 6:00 pm. The show is part of a swimsuit & BBQ event. It looks like the Pirates might be doing a parody of AKB48 as part of their show. The charge is ¥2,000. That includes food from the BBQ. Hope to see you there!
みなさん、こんにちは！オンライン”スクールカレンダー＆お知らせ”の ページをアップデイトしました！当月のサービスレッスン日やキッズクラスの日程、祝 日やイベント案内が日本語で確認できます。Here’s a short video of The PUZZLE PROJECT at KIX that I shot last Saturday night in Uni Pon Pon Kau Kau, a cool bar & gallery space in Umeda, Osaka. To see so many pieces by so many different artists on the walls at the same time was really impressive.
The music in this video is from “Mondo Erotica!” by Jun Miyake. I first heard this album while drinking at Uni Pon Pon Kau Kau. I was so impressed, I went out & bought it the very next day!
Back in March, I wrote about The Puzzle Project at KIX. Those puzzle pieces are now on show in Umeda, Osaka. Takashi Inaba, the organiser of the Puzzle Project, has a bar & gallery space in Umeda called Uni Pon Pon Kau Kau (06-6313-2644).
みなさん、こんにちは！オンライン”スクールカレンダー＆お知らせ”の ページをアップデイトしました！当月のサービスレッスン日やキッズクラスの日程、祝 日やイベント案内が日本語で確認できます。
Recently, I was teaching some lessons in a kindergarten. One of the classrooms was decorated with the students' paintings of space. Most of the paintings featured a drawing of the student in an origami rocket with a background of stars. The above painting caught my eye because it had all the important things you expect to see in a painting of space - stars, a rocket, the Earth, the Sun, and The Flying Spaghetti Monster (explained in Japanese)!
みなさん、こんにちは！オンライン”スクールカレンダー＆お知らせ”の ページをアップデイトしました！当月のサービスレッスン日やキッズクラスの日程、祝 日やイベント案内が日本語で確認できます。
This weekend (May 28th & 29th), there's a big international charity concert being held in Ogimachi Park, near Umeda. The event is scheduled to start at 11:00 am each day (but don't go too early -- these events usually take a couple of hours to warm up!) The concert is free. There will also be some stalls & information booths. Money raised through donations, t-shirt sales, and so on will be used to help to help the victims of the Tohoku Earthquake. 
Simon, Shinchan, & Glen work their magic!
Buzz Lightyear & Woody
I've often said one of the great things about living in Japan is all of the interesting people I've been able to meet. One of those people is professional jazz drummer Tommy Campbell. He has played with such jazz giants as Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, & The Manhattan Transfer, just to name a few.
Tommy & friends (his & ours) at our wedding party. Tommy's in the back of that photo and he's still towering over everyone!
This Sunday, April 24th, is Easter – the most important Christian holiday.
By the way, did you know most famous comic-book heroes have a girl version? There's...
Batgirl
Supergirl 
Spider-girl
Tonight, our friend Simon Yates will be playing live acoustic music at Andy's Imagine (090-1133-1501), a cool little bar in Rokkomichi, near Kobe. It's a charity concert to help the victims of the recent earthquake. If you're down Kobe way (or you're looking for an excuse to be down Kobe way), you should definitely check it out. We hope to see you there! 
Last Sunday, we held our annual Be & Me Spring Picnic in Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park, in Osaka. We had a great day – despite the cold! There were nearly as many cosplayers as picnickers!
みなさん、こんにちは！オンライン”スクールカレンダー＆お知らせ”の ページをアップデイトしました！当月のサービスレッスン日やキッズクラスの日程、祝 日やイベント案内が日本語で確認できます。
