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Colin Doyle

Colin Doyle

@nagaijin.bsky.social

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Teacher, writer, Osaka Resident, Freelance Canadian

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Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 11h

I remember when they had their moment, but it was quite brief. Thirty years on, I hear references to them all the time.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 12h

Putting my walking shoes on for that very reason.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Culture Day, Japanfolk! Might celebrate simply this year, with yogurt on my cereal, then maybe a bit of cheese on my sandwich at lunchtime.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 2d

*For* one hour! Aren’t there any proofreaders around here anymore?

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 2d

It would be nice if the stenographers posing as White House reporters would ask him about that at some point.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 2d

Beat me to it…

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 3d

The Japanese love nature so much that they bury it in concrete so no one can hurt it.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 5d

Remarkable number of careers this one movie jumpstarted.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/tguu4m38U78?...

Cannonball Adderly & Miles Davis - Autumn Leaves

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Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 5d

I’m just going from personal experience. I live in Osaka City, where you’d expect such things, but I haven’t noticed anything other than the odd scrawl here and there, no more than usual.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 6d

Shot, obviously.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 6d

Well there’s my life plan shit to hell. Thanks a lot, Second-cousin twice-removed Polly.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 6d

When my grandmother’s second cousin came to visit, you can bet we addressed her as Aunt Polly.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 6d

This is common as far east as Nova Scotia, where I grew up.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 7d

The only problem is that most of it is not very good. You’d hardly call it an epidemic though.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 7d

Akira Kurosawa’s The Boys in the Band

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 9d

Or architecture.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 9d

Still no kinmokusei (flowering olive), my favourite autumn flower, in my neighbourhood. Usually a mid-October flower. I miss their lovely fragrance.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 9d

And I also wish I spoke Brazilian Portuguese, or at least understood it. They sound like they’re having such fun.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 9d

You reminded me that I own a 1965 live album of Elis and Jair Rodrigues. Played it all morning. Thanks!

Elis Regina and Jair Rodrigues live album from 1965.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 9d

OK, just shoot this into my veins.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 10d

The most overrated fruit since Lindsay Graham.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 11d

Now an upscale neighbourhood in downtown Toronto.

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 12d

I guess he’s suggesting that we’re well past the point (thank G-d) where it’s assumed that any blacked-up white guy can play Othello better than any actual black actor. Now, perhaps anyone can?

Colin Doyle @nagaijin.bsky.social · 12d

That would be the lovely and talented Joel McCrea, my grandmother’s teenage crush.