I don't know where the hell you were, but last Halloween a few members of the Sake Bomb crew found themselves gallivanting around Tokyo, Japan, sampling the fine foods, beverages, and cultural delights with all the appreciation and delicacy of invading barbarians. We wrote the whole thing off as a business trip, and that is how it will be presented to you now: strictly business, no matter how cold the Sapporo flowed or how bright the rising sun rose as we stumbled and laughed our way through the alleys and train stations and ramen shops, deranged and confused and simply happy to be alive. We're going back in a few weeks, it seemed appropriate to review our previous performance and figure out where we went wrong.

--Shewchuk