Songs

I was trying to remember the name of a song I liked this morning. It's by the Crash Test Dummies and the chorus is just "mmmm mmmm mmmm". Anyway, turns out the name of the song is "mmm mmm mmm mmm". So there you go.

Anyway, I was rather miffed to find it on this list. I do love the comment against "Barbie Girl" though.

The world has gone completely mad.

Is this really what or elected leaders spend their time on?

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/poteoa1997455/s146e.html

Sugamo and Red Underpants

I've added here a few photos that I've taken recently. Mainly these were taken in a place called Sugamo, a small suburb in northern Tokyo most famous for its Shotengai (shopping strip).

As in Australia, local street shopping strips have been slowly disappearing in Japan and are being replaced by large shopping centres. Sugamo has tried to combat this by creating its own character (a duck called Sugamon) and by promoting its monopoly on the sale of lucky red underpants. The fourth photo down shows the shopfront.

I no longer try to explain things in Japan. I just report them.

How Regulation Helped Cause the Housing Crisis (John A. Allison)

"Would I rather eliminate taxes or eliminate regulation? That's a no brainer: regulation"

Interesting insight into the GFC and the Sub-prime crisis and all the nonsense that went along with that.