The Kumachan

After several weeks of nagging from my dear wife I finally put up the Christmas Lights. I mean she would not let up! It’s a good thing I love her!

A man is walking home alone late one foggy Halloween-night, when behind him he hears:

BUMP…
BUMP…
BUMP…

Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image of an upright casket banging its way down the middle of the street toward him.

BUMP…
BUMP…
BUMP…

Terrified, the man begins to run toward his home, the casket bouncing quickly behind him.

FASTER…
FASTER…
BUMP…
BUMP…
BUMP….

He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door, rushes in, slams and locks the door behind him. However, the casket crashes through his door, with the lid of the casket clapping.

clappity-BUMP…
clappity-BUMP…
clappity-BUMP…on his heels, as the terrified man runs. Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, he locks himself in. His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps. With a loud CRASH the casket breaks down the door.

Bumping and clapping toward him.

The man screams and reaches for something, anything, but all he can find is a bottle of cough syrup! Desperate, he throws the cough syrup at the casket…and, The coffin stops.

Hooters Girl Retired

In Hawaii people don’t make as big of a deal about the Independence day of the United States, that is probably due to the large Asian population living in Hawaii. They seem to make a bigger deal out of New Year’s Eve than they do the 4th of July. So this year I went to celebrate the 4th of July with some people who really know how to party…the service men and women of the Marine Corps. stationed at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. For the last few years I have been coming to Kaneohe to celebrate the 4th of July because every year the MCCS puts on the Kaneohe Bayfest. This year I watched the fireworks while sitting under the wing of a P3 airplane and next to a Marine helicopter. Now that’s something you don’t do everyday!

Happy Easter!

A puppy has been born in Japan with a large, clear, love-heart-shaped pattern in his coat. The Chihuahua was born in May as one of a litter to a breeder. Shop owner Emiko Sakurada said it was the first time a puppy with the marks had been born out of a thousand she had bred. She had no plans to sell the puppy, which has been named ‘Heart-kun’. The long-coated male Chihuahua puppy was born in Odate, northern Japan.

Just wanted to wish everybody a very Happy New Year 2008! Hope the new year brings everybody joy and the very best that life can offer.

Rockefeller Center, New York

The Capitol, Washington DC

Trafalgar Square in London

The Romer, Frankfurt’s City Hall

Red, White and Blue [on display at an unknown location]

Puerta del Sol in Madrid

St. Peter’s Square in Rome

Galeries Lafayette in Paris

A chapel in Germany’s Karwendel mountains

The largest Christmas tree in Europe [over 230 feet tall] in Praça do Comércio in Lisbon, Portugal

Moscow

Murano Island in Venice, Italy; home to the tallest glass tree in the world sculpted by master glass blower Simone Cenedese

Prague’s Old Town Square in the Czech Republic

Tokyo’s nighttime neon display projected onto the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka in Japan

The world’s largest Christmas tree display up in the slopes of Monte Ingino, in Italy’s Umbria region, made of about 500 lights connected with 40,000 feet of wire

Merry Christmas!