You claim your original post was supposed to be ironic. Fine, I’ll take you at your word. But you do say, (to be frank), which doesn’t imply ironic humor at all. Sorry if you didn’t enjoy this one very much, but it is published, so it’s kind of past the point of edits and revisions.

I’ve read some of your work. Very interesting travel pieces. You have been to a lot of places. Every make it to Japan? There are a lot of very cool things to write about here.