Japan has always been an interesting DMZ between East and West representing the push and pull of the other. For a searing commentary on Japan's push towards the West and pull towards the East, I recommend an excellent avant-garde film, "The Calamari Wrestler." It cleverly discusses these complicated issues with out becoming pedantic.
While Barbara and I shy away from self-promotion, we thought you Mr. Usmale, might enjoy a documentary about our lives during the period in which we were guests in Japan. It is eponymously called "The Fuccons." All five volumes are excellent, and do not need to be viewed chronologically.
Also, if I may be bold, what ethnicity is your surname, Usmale? Is it pronounced Us-ma-le or U-smal-e?
Ewe Ess Mail, of course you may call me Jim. May I call you Ewe? From the beginning I found your postings to have a slightly ovine feel. Now that I know you are Ewe, all is explained.
Thank you for the fine work you do. BTW, it's Fu-Cone though Jim is fine.
Dear Ewe- This is my final message, and I am writing only because something seems amiss. I have reread your recent postings, and please do not take this personally, but Ewe seems like a misnomer.
The tenor and complexity of your thoughts require a name more fitting than Ewe. May I call you Ram Ess Mail instead? Or simply Ram for short?
I must go now. Barbara and I have a meeting with Mikey's teacher. If everything goes right, she'll soon be on the unemployment line.
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Japan has always been an interesting DMZ between East and West representing the push and pull of the other. For a searing commentary on Japan's push towards the West and pull towards the East, I recommend an excellent avant-garde film, "The Calamari Wrestler." It cleverly discusses these complicated issues with out becoming pedantic.
Thanks, Jim. The perspicacity of your comment is outdone only by its enfeoffiality. As always, I am, if not in quite awed, stunned.
While Barbara and I shy away from self-promotion, we thought you Mr. Usmale, might enjoy a documentary about our lives during the period in which we were guests in Japan. It is eponymously called "The Fuccons." All five volumes are excellent, and do not need to be viewed chronologically.
Also, if I may be bold, what ethnicity is your surname, Usmale? Is it pronounced Us-ma-le or U-smal-e?
Thank you,
Jim
What a generous offer, Jim. (May I call you "Jim"?)
As to my ethnicity, I am Pale. My eponymous blog is actually a title rather than a name, properly speaking. So Ewe Ess Mail is the pronunciation.
And you? Do you use the Italianate form "FucOne" or the Anglosaxonate, "FUckin"?
It's obvious.
Ewe Ess Mail, of course you may call me Jim.
May I call you Ewe?
From the beginning I found your postings to have a slightly ovine feel. Now that I know you are Ewe, all is explained.
Thank you for the fine work you do.
BTW, it's Fu-Cone though Jim is fine.
Dear Ewe-
This is my final message, and I am writing only because something seems amiss. I have reread your recent postings, and please do not take this personally, but Ewe seems like a misnomer.
The tenor and complexity of your thoughts require a name more fitting than Ewe. May I call you Ram Ess Mail instead? Or simply Ram for short?
I must go now. Barbara and I have a meeting with Mikey's teacher. If everything goes right, she'll soon be on the unemployment line.
Thank you, Ram.
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