800th post snapshot!

Congratulations to me! This is the 800th post on this blog. I thought long and hard about what to write about for this monumental occasion, but I had my usual brain freeze…so instead I decided to write about the fact that I am writing a post about my 800th post. Today is the 30th of
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True Blood vs The Vampire Diaries

Thanks to Twilight, vampire books and TV series are everywhere now (well, they’ve always been around, but are finally being noticed). I recently finished watching Season 2 of HBO’s True Blood, and I am up-to-date with Season 1 of CW’s The Vampire Diaries (13 eps). So which is better? (to read the verdict, click on ‘more…’) It’s hard
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Stephen King’s “On Writing” – A Comprehensive Review and Summary

There are plenty of books on writing out there, mostly by writers you have never heard of and probably never will. Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is an exception. I had read many rave reviews about this book, so I went and got myself the audio book version for the long
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Taco Tora: the best takoyaki in Kyoto!

In my humble opinion, takoyaki is one of the greatest foods in the world. According to Wikipedia, it is a “ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special takoyaki pan” and usually filled with octopus. I first fell in love with it while reading ろくでなしBLUES (translated in English as
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