David Sedaris On Smoking In Japan

[Mulboyne]

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He's on the Daily Show to promote his book "When You Are Engulfed in Flames".

[AssKissinger]

He's not funny.

[maraboutslim]

That bit wasn't much but I've been listing to his stories on This American Life and whatnot for years and he's actually one of the funniest storytellers I've ever heard. His sister, on the other hand, is simply wacko.

[AssKissinger]

I read one of his books and didn't go for it but to each his own.

[kamome]

I thought he was funny but Japan seems like the last place in the world to be for anyone who wants to quit smoking. It's probably the best place to start, though.

[IkemenTommy]

I thought he was funny but Japan seems like the last place in the world to be for anyone who wants to quit smoking. It's probably the best place to start, though.

Cigarettes are cheap and readily available. I will only quit once I get back to the US with paying $5 for a pack of fags.

[canman]

I read a report that said that the price of a pack of cigarettes might go up to Y1000 in the next five years. I can only wish and pray. There is your pension fund money right there. The oyajis will never stop, so make them pay for it.

[emperor]

I would have thought it's illegal to smoke in the street in order to maintain cleaner streets...

is this no-smoking in street thing recent?

[Charles]

I wondered if I should quit before I went over the first time, and I was glad I didn't. Smokes were cheap and everyone smoked. I would have caved in and started smoking again.

I don't think it's actually illegal to smoke in the street except places that have specific ordinances like Chiyoda-ku (including Akihabara). I blogged about that a few years ago, I posted the same JT Smoking Manners images Sedaris is yakking about.

[Visitor K]

I posted the same JT Smoking Manners images Sedaris is yakking about.

and to think, we were all fighting for you to be the one to break it on the daily show.

[Socratesabroad]

He's not funny.

That bit wasn't much but I've been listing to his stories on This American Life and whatnot for years and he's actually one of the funniest storytellers I've ever heard. His sister, on the other hand, is simply wacko.

AK, mara is absolutely right. The clip wasn't that great because Sedaris isn't really a stand-up type - you need to hear him telling stories. And one of the best examples is Me Talk Pretty One Day, which is his amazing funny story of growing up as a lispy effeminate kid in the South and his later life as an American expat in France trying to learn the lingo and fit in.
The whole language learning and life in a foreign culture thing is, the way he tells it, truly hilarious.

His sister, on the other hand, is simply wacko.

She seemed cute at first, but after seeing snippets of some TV series and talk show interviews she did she came off more as neurotic/frantic. And unlike her brother, who learned some humility in France, Amy's got that artsy-fartsy New Yorker smugness which is real off-putting.

[AssKissinger]

AK, mara is absolutely right. The clip wasn't that great because Sedaris isn't really a stand-up type - you need to hear him telling stories. And one of the best examples is Me Talk Pretty One Day , which is his amazing funny story of growing up as a lispy effeminate kid in the South and his later life as an American expat in France trying to learn the lingo and fit in.

I read that.　I found it contrived and trying to hard. Reminds me of Eggers.

[Kuang_Grade]

Cigarettes are cheap and readily available. I will only quit once I get back to the US with paying $5 for a pack of fags.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ihFtITGCn7P_P6x1MvzN_4iwfxagD912G24G0

New Yorkers start paying the highest cigarette taxes in the nation Tuesday with the latest $1.25 spike per pack that officials expect to bring in $265 million a year.
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Smokers will be paying $2.75 per pack in state taxes, a jump from the previous tax of $1.50. Before the new tax, the average price of a pack of cigarettes was $5.82 statewide, and about $8 a pack in New York City, which levies its own taxes, Daines said. The new retail price for a pack in the city could now soar past $10 depending on the store.