After a few false starts, Sapporo's legendary snowfall has begun in earnest. In a matter of weeks, the entire city will be an icy deathtrap. There is no salting of the roads or sidewalks (ostensibly for environmental reasons), which means that all flat, reasonably horizontal surfaces quickly become glare ice. It also means I get to learn to snowboard. Sidewalk or slopes, five'll get you ten I'm gonna break something before winter's over.

Aside: who in the fuck is "paxil"? I deleted your comment on suspicion that you are 1) a annoying blog-oriented bot, and/or 2) someone trying to be clever through non sequitur. If you are 2, sorry, but most of my friends tend to identify themselves in messages, dig?

STEAMY HOT UPDATE: I'm pretty sure the post by "paxil" was the work of blog-comment-spamming, a recent development in the wonderful world of wasting everyone's fucking time. If you're curious, the comment was about the mediocre-at-best High Fidelity, but every 6th or 7th word was a drug's brand-name, e.g. paxil, zyrtec, viagra. Weird.