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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.05.08

Mari's had her first guitar for only three days. But today she played her first song.

Granted, it's a song of such relative simplicity that she was able to teach even me to pick it out on the piano. But I'm damn impressed.

Here's a funny version of the same song, the "kaeru no gashou".

rand()m quote

Marriage is like a game of chess, except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

—Jerry Seinfeld