F1 The Movie (2025): What Stayed With Me After Watching It
F1 The Movie (2025): What Stayed With Me After Watching It A personal reflection, not a review It started, as many unexpected things do, with my daughter. We share a YouTube feed — a chaotic blend of her pop music and my own carefully filtered selections to keep things from going stale — and one […]
Why Mr. Baseball Still Teaches You More About Japan Than Most Textbooks
Why Mr. Baseball Still Teaches You More About Japan Than Most Textbooks Before I came to Japan decades ago, I felt an almost urgent need to learn as much as I could. And back then, the most feasible way to do that wasn’t textbooks or blogs — it was whatever videos I could get my […]
Wilson-Approved Cinema: Stranded Movie Picks
You are stranded on an island with only 5 movies to keep you sane. What do you choose? Light-hearted fun! Join in.