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Blake's arriving

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.11.02

Tomorrow morning I'll be meeting with an old colleague who's coming to town. To do a bit of a tour.

Nothing special, just a jaunt to Shinjuku to go up the metro tower and see the sites. I'll make sure he gets some guide materials there as well. I don't mind showing people around the city, it's a great way to see places you'd typically not visit in any given year.

Blake's now a journalist, but I knew him when we were both IT monkeys. It's a curious thing, but this is the second time I've met with a colleague from the same small start-up in Australia where I worked for six months some nine years ago and more. He's followed the news in Brussels, Rome and Sudan. You can read his work in the "Recommended Content" link below.

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot