You woulnd't believe it, but I'd actually forgotten about my blog. Lost to oblivion until they sent me the final warning--pay or the site goes down. I paid, and grudgingly made a silent agreement with myself to continue blogging at some point in the future.

Several people have emailed me thanking me for writing it. That helps keep me going. My blog, I was told, is among the most up to date about modern life in Japan. True that. Hearing it made me wanna browse through what I'd previously written.

Many of my most recent posts were about the "Yes we can" phenomenon. It seemed strange to me because, as of the time of this writing (December 9, 2009) the craze is over. Long dead. Reading about it on my blog makes me feel as though I'm misrepresenting Obama's current popularity.

In fact, I've come to hate Obama. A man who got elected by correctly reading the country's want of change. He then promptly gave us more of the same, the bum. Big banks on Wall street failing? A great time to change where so much money and power lies. But no, he used our money to keep the status quo. Given the Nobel peace prize while Al Queda is down to less than 100 men in Afghanistan? Perfect chance to change things up. But no, simply another surge ala Bush.

I've come to wish that McCain had gotten elected--not because he would have been any different, but because people might have continued to protest had the lack of change been more obvious.

And the strangest turn of events comes from a Japanese porno I recently downloaded. The lucky pornstar in question is wearing perhaps the only Obama reference I've seen in months. "Yes, we did."