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 […]

“Guess What!” English Textbook Insights – NAN’UN-DO

“Guess What!” English Textbook Insights – NAN’UN-DO Bilingual English Learning Resource for Japanese Students As a kind of universal English teacher, I’ve occasionally used textbooks from the NAN’UN-DO catalogue in my eikaiwa and private tutoring classes—a byproduct of my wife being a university teacher and me being a textbook nerd. Since these books aren’t readily […]

Wake Up Disney!

Wake Up Disney! Thoughts on Hollywood’s Agenda I was surfing YouTube for the latest movies coming out in autumn 2025—the sort of doom‑scrolling idleness that drains hours but somehow still feels like a guilty pleasure. Then I noticed something: of the 15 trailers I watched that sparked even a flicker of interest (action, sci‑fi, that […]