Monthly Archive for November, 2006

Wacky Weather and the Coming Winter

Northern Japan has been a mess these days, at least as far as the weather is concerned, . I’m sure most of you have heard about the tornado that touched down on an Island off of Hokkaido, killing eight people. I want to clarify that no tiltyhouse staff was anywhere near the disaster,so there is no need to be worried about us. I just want to emphasize that Japan does not get many tornadoes. I think they get a major one every forty years, so for them this was pretty big news.

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Dai-Cast 039 - Trains into Tunnels

Dai-Cast

Broadcasting to you, not-quite-live from the crystal gondola in the palatial main Tiltyhouse studios in beautiful downtown Nagaoka Japan, for the education, elucidation, emancipation, enlightenment and mental emolument of the Nipponistic hoi-polloi. Or in plain English, Dai-Cast is a weekly podcast highlighting recent developments in Japan and Japanese pop culture from a western perspective.

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