M.O.B Questions

Hello you M.O.B-sters out there,

I hope all is well in your respective lives. As always, I'm playing an eternal game of post catch up. At present I am 2 weeks behind. I should have been writing all day, but lets just say I was...recovering, which entailed lots of sleep, but more on this later. I know the posts are still pretty long, but I haven't heard any complaints about it. But then again, at present, there are still only one or two people who actively read this blog, and only one of them has commented so....

Also, if you ever see grammatical errors or things of that nature, feel free to bring it to my attention since a more well written blog can only make this P.O.S called Nan Desu Ka?! better ne? At present, I'm in a mental debate about the benefits of advertising my blog to my friends (a thing many people do, which tends to piss people off) and telling them to tell their friends (DPN, master of the profitless pyramid scheme), or just letting my blog grow organically. I guess that's always the writer's dilemma the difference between maintaining the integrity of your art, or being a sell out...oh another writer dilema, finding a way to house your family in a studio apartment as your children starve all in the name of art :)

Also, in reference to post dates. I'm having to put the post the times these events occurred before the posts because I'm so far behind. However I JUST discovered that I'm starting to forget the dates they occurred myself. So I'm trying to correct all the dates on the posts and hoping that soon you'll be able to use the links on the right to know what week the events of each weekly post occurred. Please bear with me for a bit longer!

Questions: Have I had sushi and what other foods have I eaten here. At the time this question was asked of me, I had not eaten sushi in the technical definition of a single slice of fish on a hunk of rice, nor had I had any maki (rolls) yet. However, my okaasan does make this great dish which is a bowl of rice and on top are various forms of tuna, marinated tuna sashimi slices, and diced tuna. Since then, I have had some sushi with the family. It was store bought stuff I think, but just as good as a casual sushi place back in America. This question is most likely in reference to Anthony Bourdain's Japan episode in which he found a mom and pop sushi place with ridiculously delicious looking sushi. I have yet to find a backalley sushi place, but the search continues. As for what other foods they eat here, lots of fish. LOTS OF FISH. They also have curry rice which is exactly what it sounds like, rice with curry on it. I've sold out a couple of times and had McDonald's (both were circumstances beyond my control), and the Colonel is EVERYWHERE around here. Its reassuring to know that wherever I go in Japan, I'll see the smiling godlike face of the Colonel watching over me when I'm hungry and saying "worry not my son, take this and eat it, it is a chicken's body. The body of everlasting fat and heart disease, the body of a chicken which I give up for you". As always, these questions come thanks to EP.

Gambatte,

-DPN