David LaSpina (@dbooster) - Proof of Brain

David LaSpina

Japan

David is an Italian-American expat lost in Japan. A photographer, father, lover of haiku, and eater of natto. Here, there, and everywhere.

about 17 hours ago

From Soul to Satire: Three Wild Covers (and Weird Al) Greetings and salutations Hivers. Today let’s go into another Three Tune Tuesday post. As always, thanks

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1 day ago

Paper in my Pocket

My Hive Goals for 18 August 2025 Hello all! Another week and it’s time again to do another #myhivegoals

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3 days ago

Movies That Age Like Fine Wine: Falling Down, Office Space, and Network Some films fade into irrelevance, relics of their era. Others, strangely enough, seem to ripen with time. Their commentary, once sharp, only gets sharper.

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4 days ago

Hive Collectors

The Gold ¥1 Coin: A Tiny Fortune in Your Pocket Japan’s ¥1 coin is best known today as a feather-light alumin(i)um piece you can balance on a soap bubble. But in the late 19th

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5 days ago

August 15 in Japan: From Surrender to the Kamikaze Winds On this day in Japan’s history, two events centuries apart left an indelible mark on the nation’s identity. The more recent is, of course, August 15, 1945 — when the Shōwa Emperor, H

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6 days ago

Blockchain Poets

Awake Too ~ Original Haiku Last night I was nursing a drink after everyone had gone to bed, listening with the window open to the night music. I jotted this down: awake and listening to the night insects they’re awake too

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7 days ago

Rant, Complain, Talk

Putting the oh in ou I have a problem. Being of two worlds — the Japanese and the English — I am keenly aware of mispronunciations of Japanese words in the Ang

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8 days ago

Mystic Blue: A Three-Tune Journey through Dreamworlds Sometimes, three songs surface at once, tangled in the same corner of memory. That happened today. It started with a strange craving to hear Desert Rose again—the haunting duet…

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9 days ago

Paper in my Pocket

My Hive Goals for 11 August 2025 Hello all! Another week and it’s time again to do another #myhivegoals

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10 days ago

Blogging at Medium I’ve saved up a lot of memes so I was going to go with a meme post today, but I’m calling an audible because my mind is on Medium. <

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