Mimesis

So the title of this post was supposed to be Mimesis, because it is an awesome word that I think about whenever I see pictures of Japanese rapperz making fake gang signs that symbolize the fake gangs they don’t belong to. The gang signs are not as hilarious as the eyes, especially of one particular [...]

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Ad for "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Attraction."

“Golly Mr. Jack Sparrow, terrorism sure is fun!”“It’s Captain you little wench.”
Dorothy- hell yeah hangin’ with Bryce the Gray and Vlad is fun. It’s the shit! It’s the bomb! It’s the shitty bomb! And yes, while the street I live on is technically called 有楽街, or There is-Fun-Street, I live in the same building as, [...]

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How one advertises in the Bu.

TI is huge in Japan, and his preferred method of getting the word out is the tried-and-true “Train of White Hummers” approach.

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The sun was just coming out when I took this.

Hurray no more taifun. Just in time…for an earthquake!

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Oh Jason! You so crazy! Cameras go OUTSIDE the lion’s mouth!

Picture taken in Chinatown, as I stuck my camera inside a golden lion statue.

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Fack you too, sir.

Look closely. Someone actually bothered to correct the mistake!

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Yokohama middleschoolers must be horny as hell.

Loose translation: Everyone get better acquainted! Sex party starting….Starting!

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It’s a goddamn epidemic.

I saw this exact diagram on a bathroom wall back in middle school. Labels and all! From the top: nipples, clitoris, HOLE, and anus.
Yes. Hole.

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This means "Where is the bathroom?" in Japanese

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Cloud City Bitches!

The next few images are all from the walk towards Yokohama Chinatown, near Yamashita Park and directly under a ridiculously-oversized Ferris wheel. The graffiti was hilarious, mostly because of the juvenile sexual scribbling and the misspelled confrontational posturing (in English!)
Watch and be amazed.

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Brad, shortly after acquiring the only chaw in Japan

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Half interdimensional-travel device from Contact, half roller coaster, half blown glass structure

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Brad and Bryce in front of the Yokohama art museum

Hey, you got Rice in my Japan!
We had a great time in that museum, which included late 1800s-era images of Tokyo (firefly-lit rivers and glades in Ochanomizu for example, now completely paved over and built up) right across from a exhibition of crucified doll paintings, across the mezzanine from 1920s Parisian black-and-white photography. It was [...]

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Birds, like me, have very little affinity for taifuns

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Tokyo from the 21st floor of the Roppongi Midtown Building

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Irish Pub Rockers on a rainy night in Jiyugaoka

They weren’t that great but they gave me a free CD.

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Questions for Japan

1. Why oh why, in the room next door to mine, is there always a man clad only in underwear sitting on a bed?
And I mean ALWAYS. He always leaves his door open a crack, and no matter what time of day I happen to return, there is always a man in white underwear sitting [...]

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The glass the mama-san broke over Bryce’s shoulder

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It’s not duck?

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Nice….roofing

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Onarimon + Tokyo Tower

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I ate two bowls of this last night….carbs

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Will scratching himself from the other side of the platform!

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The entrance/massage parlor advertisement to my apartment!

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Blowjob Bar 3 doors down from my apartment!

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This way to my apartment!

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"Parental love" statue outside my station

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My neighborhood as seen from the second story of the station

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Look upon my cellphone, ye mighty, and despair!

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My station on the Yamanote line!

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