Ghost Dog

In my saturnine stupor yesterday, I almost ruined my page by mistakenly saving a blank page over my hypertext. That would have sucked.

I received in the mail a book I ordered a couple of weeks ago. The book's called Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai. A movie I recently watched, "Ghost Dog," involves a contract killer who thought of himself as a samurai warrior in the traditional sense. Sections of the "Hagakure" are read aloud throughout the film almost as a running commentary on the action. Having always been interested in oriental culture and philosophy, I was intrigued and I ordered the book from the largest used bookstore in the world, Powells Bookstore in Portland (for their website, just add a .com to their name). I ordered it delivered surface mail (the cheapest) so I was surprised to see it arrive so soon. Now all I have to do is find time to read it.