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Lowriders of Thailand
These pics are from last year. We pulled into a highway reststop in the Thai countryside and were delighted to find a young entrepeneur selling coconuts from the back of his slammed pickup: When I say slammed, I mean, look at that hydraulic kit! Check out the custom paint job – glittery goodness! And the gold door handles are to die for! Matching gold grille job… This guy probably accessorizes better than his girlfriend!
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Thai Frog
I just liked this frog. He had this attitude like, “come TRY and step on me motherfucker!” and I was all like, “No, I’m faux-Buddhist when I visit Southeast Asian countries. Must not kill living things! (except for those damn mosquitoes)”
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The Glass Is Half Empty
This isn’t a good picture, but you can clearly see why I hate ordering draft beer in Japan sometimes. Where many would argue the aesthetic value of a 70/30 (in this case 50/50) beer to head ratio, I would say that it looks good in a commercial but otherwise I want a full glass of beer. If I saw this in America, I would conclude that the bartender set the CO2 pressure on the tap too high and ask for another. Whoever poured this beer needs to learn how to tilt the glass sideways when they’re pouring, or be put in charge of working the bottle opener.
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Not Syrup Of Ipecac, But It Might As Well Be
Creamy wasabi dipping sauce??? No thank you.
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The Missing Kitten Epilogue, or, How a Ferret Stole My Thunder
So I suddenly got to thinking about the little black kitty I rescued a few months back, because, well, I miss him (BTW, the name Yoda stuck). I realize that I perhaps never related his ultimate fate here (a true catblogger I shall never be – hurray!). He was accepted as carry-on luggage when my sister went back home, and he now lives with Adam’s cat, Boo, and my dad’s little anklebiter dog, Jak, at our home in Fountain Valley, CA (AKA Pleasantville – a city so nondescript it’s often chosen as a relocation site for the FBI’S witness protection program). I still haven’t posted my pics from my trip…
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Kill Bill Volume ASCII
ASCII art translation of Kill Bill: http://disappointment.com/randomacts/ascus/killbill/page01.htm props.
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Food Carving – East Meets West
I guess the only thing that can beat that Japanese fruit carving site is the Spam Carving Contest.
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Charles Jenkins Interview
FEER has an exclusive interview with deserter Charles Jenkins: Four Decades in North Korea Props, props.
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School Lunch In Rural Japan
I just wrote an entry about kyushoku, or school lunch, on Higo Blog. I would have to say that the school lunches that I had in Ubuyama were much better than the school lunches back in SoCal, but you can’t really compare soggy burgers wrapped in foil paper to rice and a broiled slice of mackerel. Then again, in high school I could buy personal pan pizzas from Pizza Hut. Those pizzas were about the same size as Japanese pizza, more filling, had real pepperoni and sausage (instead of this mayonaisse and corn bullshit! WTF is up with that???), and cost only 3 bucks! The worst things about school lunch…
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Goddamn Computers
Now they’re just fucking with me: (error encountered trying to comment on a livejournal site)
