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Happy Birthday, Thomas!
The other reason — besides Goya Day — that May 8th is one of my favorite days is that it is the birthday of my favorite author, Thomas Pynchon, who is — unbelievably — 71 years old today. Somehow I can’t picture him as that old. Maybe because the only image I and most of […]
Happy Goya Day!
Goyaboy’s favorite holiday is today, May 8th, in Okinawa — “Goya no Hi” (Goya Day). As I have explained before, this is one of those Japanese play-on-words holidays: 5 (May) = go and 8 = ya. Read about it (in Japanese) here. This year an Okinawan farmer planted a goya that yielded a “Siamese Twin” […]