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Welcome to #checkin for Thursday, June 4, 2026

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Today traveled to Frankfurt to visit my gf and we are attending the Japanese film festival Nippon connection where they show Japanese movies in the small arthouse cinemas around the city. Despite the movies there are a couple of booths offering Japanese food snacks or they sell some artwork.
Lovely place.

So do you have any cultural festivals in your city or around you?

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Mark Wollschlager

Over the years I have been to a few of the many held. Scottish Games ( people throwing telephone poles and big rocks while making screeching noises with skin bags and pipes, and sheep ) , Chinese New Year ( lots of firecrackers, Dragons, and smoke ). Mostly just street fairs with vendors, food trucks, and random music acts.
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Austin has many such things. One of the more prominent ones is the Pecan Street Fair, which happens in the fall. A sizable chunk of downtown goes to walking only, and the restaurants and food trucks go meshuga. And, of course, since it's Austin, there's live music on every street corner and sometimes in between.
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Ooohh, a Japanese Film Festival. Enjoy! I've been to many, and enjoyed every minute of it. Ahhh student days. Don't know about now, back then every. single. film. with or by Beat Takeshi was shown every time. And many others were.

I'll never forget the daftest bank robbery on film ever, a scene in Hana-Bi which is completely silent and presents an excellent twist in a dramatic plot.
The guy hilmself was prominent on the last poster I saw:

By the way, I went to see Band Maid live yesterday. It was super fun, noisy, loud, and dam they pack a punch of energy. By my guesstimation about half the people in the venue were older than me. Who would have thought! Check my pixelfed. I hope the concert you get to see will be equally good @Christoph S !

Just a couple weeks ago this city had the Culture Carnival, which over 30 years went from 0 to 100, from an undaunted team of under 30 organizers overstretching their abilities to attracting almost a million visitors over festivities that last three days within a very small number of years.

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So I went to see #Band-Maid #bandmaid at the Columbia Theater in #Berlin. Great concert! If you haven't heard them, my take: they are loud! Cross over heavy metal, guitar solos and all, blues rock, punk-ish and grunge-ian themes, allude to pop and pack crazy rhythm changes all the time too. Perfect!

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DeanC

There are some that my friends and rellies go to, but it's not really my kind of thing, to go to places with crowds. Still, in the moment I sometimes do things. It helps for it to be random. Mrs. Dean and I once stumbled onto an annual "tour the rich peoples' houses on the Herrengracht" event in Amsterdam, which was kind of wild. IIRC we then went and enjoyed some rijstafel afterwards, which made it kind of an ironic ethnic/cultural event.
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Rod Mesa

$140 later and the drain runs free.
(If dogs run free, why not we?)
Got an estimate of $8-12K for the future underfloor work, I'm tempted to tear into it myself. I may be old and slow, but not too old for such a project. Yet.
(Y.E.T. = Your'e Eligible Too)

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Christoph S

@Carsten Glas you had fun! I'm so hyped for tomorrow
Today I saw the real life adaption of the Anime "5cm per seconds" and now I'm going to see a Japanese trash superhero. ovie "Taroman Expo Explosion". Something light for the evening

@alfmarc not a huge fan of seafood but count me in for the live music

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Lisa Stranger

Not too many cultural festivals here, but I lived in Baltimore during the golden age of "ethnic festivals". Lots of immigrants (mostly European) had come to the area to work in the factories. I think we only ever went to the German festival, but there were dozens of others. The festivals kinda disappeared with the factories.

an estimate of $8-12K for the future underfloor work


wtf! guessing not tree roots if a floor is involved

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Griff Ferrell

Foreign festival.

For years and years and years, Little Rock had a Greek food fest and I just realized I haven't seen it in a while now. I'm disappointed if it's not being held anymore. Covid maybe?

That's the only one I know of other than fried catfish Friday at every greasy spoon in town.

Off to see if I can find the Greek food festival I need to go

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Mark Wollschlager

@Rod Mesa We had our sewer line under the house slab dug up in '18. What a mess, right through the family room. It coincided with other update , carpet, new drywall, and painting plans so it worked out for the best. No issues with the line outside of the house, that would have been much more expensive.
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Rod Mesa

Had the line from the street to the house cleaned and lined a few years back. Had some of the aging underfloor iron replaced, and except for this shower clog, things have been fine. I thank my lucky stars that I'm on a raised floor with a decent crawlspace.
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Carsten Raddatz

When Facebook was new and I was reluctant to join, wide-eyed people told me "but that is how I get invited to breakfast/lunch/party/festival/concert!!"

Cool as that is, the argument didn't convey urgency to me. No FOMO resides with me. Also, frankly I only have a handful of days per week and a life to live.

Public posters are enough to read, then thankfully the non-Gafam internet:tm: is another good source.

Band Maid or their concert I wouldn't have know about without you @Christoph S ! But the Zuck won't need to know.

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