Three months later...

Quantum of Solace arrives in Japan almost 3 months after the rest of the world got to see it. Is it because Japan is a backwater of the world? Is it because they don't like us? Balls, is what I have to say on the matter. Anyway, it's a fine film, Daniel Craig is as excellent as before and, contrary to some commentators, he is not a completely humor-free-zone. Having said that, his girlfriend died 20 minutes prior to Quantum opening: reason enough for anyone to not be cracking innuendoes the whole way through. You can see shards of Bourne though, across the rooftops, in the frantic editing, but that's no bad thing I suppose.

Proud to be an American

Only I'm not. An American. Only now, after the last 8 years of refusing to go there, of looking on in horror as the USA was taken over by a bunch of deeply disturbing criminals, I now wouldn't mind if I were an American. Proud I'd be, in fact, to have such an amazing, smart, thoughtful president who appears to have great faculties and high moral stature. If only all presidents could be like Obama. Good luck to him, and to America, and I, for one, will soon be heading their way to say hello at last. And welcome back from the moral wilderness.

Tokyo autumn now long gone

Here's a photo of the park I go to to take photos of the changing weather. Taken around early December the trees still had a few leaves. I will post again when I go back there next week.