What a Great Party! In Tokyo, Japan!

OK. We had a BBQ party. I got really freaking drunk. So did everyone else who came. It was a wonderful time. Thank you all to those who came and had fun.


This is our "family photo."

Cheese!

It didn't nearly have as many people as the last event (maybe because everyone is gone during Golden Week) but it was fun and not at all lonely! And, the party had nothing to do with 76.1 InterFM's 6 O'Clock Yatsura FM radio program that starts at 6 pm ~ 8 pm every Monday ~ Friday Night.


Later on when the party was pretty much rolling, it rained like a Mutha F*ckha and we hid beneath the blue tarp! 

Seriously, we hid under the tarp because it rained like hell for 20 minutes!

Wow! What a fun and memorable party! Thanks to everyone!

Mike & Michio BBQ Free! Family Fun Party!

5月6日（日）　8:00am~日没まで

場所:東京都世田谷区玉堤1丁目-23付近　前回のpartyの場所近辺

■目標は　Volkswagen世田谷認定中古車センターの看板です。 

■看板の玉堤通りをはさんだ多摩川河川敷です。

GMG,BAM,YATSURAのリスナー

友達、ファミリー、もちろん初めての方、お一人でも構いません。

皆さんお誘い合わせの上ご参加下さい。

今回はBBQです。皆さんの食材（肉、魚介類、野菜、焼ける物、

これはBBQで食べると美味しいぞ等）をお待ちしてます！

マイク、ジョージ、タロヲを囲んで楽しい1日を過ごそうよ！！

各自、ゴミを持ち帰れる程度でお願いします。←重要です 

皆さんによかったら御用意していただきたいもの 

○レジャーシート。（シートを止めるザイル等あると助かります） 

○紙コップや紙のお皿やお箸・フォーク・スプーン 

○テッシュやタオル（汚れちゃっても最悪捨てちゃってもいいもの）

○ゴミ袋（大きいのとスーパーのレジ袋みたいなもの） 

○レジャー用の折りたたみテーブル等 

○BBQの道具（グリル、炭、着火剤）等（直火は出来ません）

周辺施設情報 

近所にセブンイレブンともう一件コンビニがあります。 

当日、足りなくなったものはここで調達できそうです 

コインパーキングが3カ所（台数は定かではないです。）があります。 

◎注意!!!飲酒される方は絶対に自動車の運転をしないでください!!!◎ 

◎できるだけ電車・バスをご利用ください◎

Golden Week, the News and Nuclear Holocaust... A Regular Day in Tokyo

Today is April 29, 2011. It is the first day of the annual "Golden Week" Holiday in Japan. From today, many Japanese business people will take an entire week off from work and travel with their families to visit their hometowns and their parent's homes. That's about it. That's the big news. Nothing much else happening... After I write this blog post, I'm going to take a nap.

CHAD VADER: DAY SHIFT MANAGER - NOTHING HAPPENS 

YOU NEED A LAUGH. WATCH THIS VIDEO. IT'S PRETTY FUNNY!

My family will stick around Tokyo, as we always do, during Golden Week as, during this time, Tokyo is empty and an wonderful place to be.


It's now been about seven weeks since the Fukushima nuclear accident occurred. In spite of the scandalous panic and spittle coming from the main stream media about how Tokyo was going to be filled with deadly radiation, we're still here.

Inspite of the mass media pronouncements of disaster and impending nuclear doom, 130 million Japanese people are still unaffected.  


Yesterday, little children attended school, like they always do. The trains were crowded with business people going to and from work, like they always do and the department stores were packed with shoppers buying gifts, like they always do, to take as presents when visiting relatives.


All in all, it is the same as it's always been.

There are no power outages. The stores have no shortages. The restaurants are slowly becoming filled with customers. There is no invisible radioactive monster stalking the streets.


Despite all the fear mongering and outlandish claims of certain death, we're still here. Nothing has happened. Today's radiation level is basically in line with the radiation level in Tokyo on March 1, 2011;  ten days before the earthquake and tsunami which caused the nuclear accident.

Radiation levels in Tokyo are roughly 3/100th 

Microgray highernow than they were ten days 

before the earthquake. And still at 1/4th the 

daily levels seen in Rome, Italy.

Of course, nothing has happened to us in Tokyo. We are hundreds of miles away from Fukushima. Ignorant pundits claimed that we were all going to get dangerous levels of radiation poisoning, but it didn't happen. Of course it didn't happen. It cannot happen. Radiation levels in Tokyo have been and are still today - and will be tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that, and the day after that, and the day after that - roughly 3/100th Microgray higher  than they were ten days before the earthquake. And still at 1/4th the daily levels seen in Rome, Italy.


It was predictable. I predicted it. It was an easy call. 


Why was it an easy call? Because I am an experienced news person with decades of experience in the mass media and now I am a blogger. 


Why do people like me want to write the truth? Because a blogger should be more interested in the truth than a fast buck. That is also why, in my case, there is no advertising on this blog whatsoever.


It is the nature of the beast.


Have a wonderful Golden Week.