I went to a nice restaurant after work today. Every morning I bike over the Shirokane hill, join up with Sakurada Street, pass the Tokyo Tower, and coast down to my work. Every night, I pedal up from my work, pass the Tokyo Tower, join up with Sakurada Street, and bike back over the Shirokane [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Mellifluous thoughts
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Day 1:
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today’s entry:
Delivery man in line in front of me. I postulate presence of multiple Japanese human beings forces politeness from target, thus disqualifying today from being my “control.” I purchase the most irregularly-priced thing in the store: coconut cookies for 164 yens. I take my time as I pay with exact change. 1 100 yens, [...]
The Science and the Art of Being Irritating
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday my boss and tech director go into a local store, with the naive expectation to purchase Diet Coke.
The naive expectation to purchase Diet Coke, with exact change.
Perhaps my boss used one too many one yen coins, but no matter. Justice would be swift.
The elderly store owner started screaming “NOH SAAABISU” and railed against foreigners [...]
Twilight in perpetuity
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s just a mall with Baroque-flavored architecture…but the Chinese and Korean tourists LOVE IT.
Mysteries of Eleusinia
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The centerpiece of the mall. I took a picture of this during winter when starch snow was falling. This one came out a bit better.
The silver car is supposed to be lucky!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My favorite pic from this roll.
Odaiba might be a nice place to live
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I imagine Skeletor lives in towers like these. If he’s up there right now, he’s probably pissed that today turned out so clear and balmy.
The color reminds me of A Wrinkle in Time.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturation is nifty!
(The real reason I edited these pics so heavily is because they were pretty mediocre.)
The end of winter
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Odaiba beach….so nice.
Vermilion
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is where I started editing the photos. I went a little crazy btw, as the ensuing posts will make clear.
In my mind, the bridge goes from Narita Airport to…THE MOON!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
View from Odaiba
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just to clarify the suicide-proofing comment, the caged middle section of Rainbow Bridge is the pedestrian part.
And I wasn’t trying to throw myself off, it’s just something I noted
I am fascinated by high places.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Looking up towards the top of the bridge.
Rainbow Bridge, by the way, is the most suicide-proof suspension bridge I’ve ever seen.
This makes me angry.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: Upon further sober reflection…yeah this doesn’t actually make me as angry wide awake and basking in sunbeams as opposed to tipsy, cold, and tired. Disregard the scribblings below; I would delete the post except that deleting posts offends my sensibilities.
So I come back from a party tonight, after having talked with a lovely [...]
CHINGALIIIIINNNNGGG
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Chingy performed something from his new album, plus “Right Thurr.”The bodyguard at the front of the stage (visible in the top photo) stared at me the entire time. I’m honored to be the most threatening person in a room filled to the brim with tiny human females.
Before I post the Chingiana….
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
An arcane scrawling arrests my attention from mundane, quotidian concerns.
ALIENS ARE ALL UP IN MY SOUPS, WRITING ME MESSAGES.
Roppongi highlife
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My highest point in life so far: being on the guest list at a party in which rapper Chingy and Japanese porn star/rapid social climber Sora Aoi were both in attendance.
I’ll post the Chingy pics tonight (I was standing right next to his bodyguards! He gave me a high-five!) I didn’t even know that Ms. [...]
Pounding down nails: a hypothetical conversation
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes when I feel I don’t understand Japan, I like to juxtapose the words of two people who do.* Reading this interview with Justice Minister Hatoyama Kunio on his support for capital punishment reminded me of another man with death on the brain.
What follows is a frank exchange of opinions, i.e. an willful construction of [...]
OOOOOHHH SHIT!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently the fishwife from below found my website.
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