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Happy Holidays!
…from the land of inflatable neck-stretching kits! This is CB signing off for 2004 – PEACE!
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E-mailed memo to self
Sender: Justin Yoshida Subject: razor blades bring them to work. It’s not what you think, whatever that is. I want to use them to improvise cutting blades for a Thompson cutting machine. In other news, I am off for eight days starting in approximately one hour. Do you have any idea how long the next 60 minutes will seem? In case I forget about the internet for a while, Happy New Year to you all!
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Feeshy
Sign hanging over a local fishmonger. What a cool word. FISHMONGER.
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Salaryman’s year-end maxim
I always plan to tie up loose ends and complete x amount of work by the end of the year; by the time Christmas rolls around my productivity dwindles to slightly above absolute zero and I’ve unconsciously convinced myself that all but the most critical issues can be postponed until work resumes. This is my fourth or fifth salaryman Christmas, but the most annoying thing about the winter season in Japan, even more than work, continues to be Wham’s “Last Christmas” resounding throughout shopping malls, train stations, and other public gathering places near you.
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Persi-mor
A crate of Costco persimons. Sweet!
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Sona Startled
Sona caught off-guard, in the crook of my arm.
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Don’t mock the guy in alligator skin shoes
Is it really prudent to enforce traffic with mimes in the “Ciudad de Uzi?” (Via BoingBoing)
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Think Global, Act Retarded
You would think that the Lipovitan crystals I smoked before yesterday’s rant would have worn off by now. You would be wrong. Today’s unwilling recipient of my hate is our company’s uniform. Specifically, the branding on it. I have actually grown quite fond of wearing a uniform to work, because it’s a hell of a lot easier than choosing barney-ass cubicle clothes every day (and hence cheaper as well, since I’m a gentle fucking giant in Japanese sizes and must import all my Dilbert-wear). However, a few years ago, my company changed vendors for our “Confederate Grays,” and said company named this line of poly-blend uniform, “EARTHINK.” Now, all of…
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PET bottle recycling
3,400 PET bottles converted into Christmas lights by a local preschool.
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Japanese Rantfest 2004
(Be warned, I just stubbed my toe REALLY HARD on an old printer someone left in the hallway for pickup tomorrow. The following passage was brought to you by the school of ?Ignore the Pain and It Will Go Away,? and the Foundation for People Who Woke Up on the Wrong Side of Humanity This Morning.) Note to self: Write future rant about the simplicity and nuance of the Japanese language being too often cloaked in stiff politeness. Wait. On second thought, I guess there?s not much to expand on there? Don?t think anyone would disagree with that. More precisely, anyone who would disagree probably has a pathetic social life,…
