Michelle Gunn! Michelle Gunn! Michelle Gunn!

LOVE PAPER? 

Love Takeo & Winged Wheel.

It’s business time. Pull out your card. What’s it say?

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Not some English seaside resort variety act from the early fifties, but my dinner.

I sit at a table in the George & Dragon, a splendid English country pub, opposite my friend Cthulhu. We drink Weston’s cider. It’s scrumptious, redolent of umeshu & soda.The floor is covered with pale, undulating stone. Dark, gnarled beams span the ceiling.

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Aspergillus Oryzae: the Mifune Toshiro of microbes. The quintessential Japanese mould.

This prince amongst microbes is also the star of Ishikawa Masayuki’s (石川雅之) manga and anime Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture (making my Toshiro Mifune analogy a little less tenuous).

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LONDON.

I even felt relieved, though that was more to do with escaping the confines of a twelve hour flight. Most of me – the important parts at least – was still back in Japan.

Two years worth of memories were waiting to be dug up and flung across the web. Here’s hoping my Necronomicon is shipped over safely.

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They have come back from the dead!! Ahhhh!

TOKYO. I am leaving you.