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Random Osaka Car Photos
A double winner! Check out the plate holder – made of a special reflective material that prevents highway cameras from getting a shot of the number plate – that is, uh, assuming there is one. It’s art, dude! In front of the fourtwenty head shop in Amemura. Note the classic Osaka parking job – sometimes you need a can opener to get out.
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Piano Brothers
My dad just sent me this clip: PianoBrothers.wmv
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On days like this, the world is mine
I was awoken by the mailman, who came with an Amazon package. I’m now listening to Aphex Twin and eating oranges and I feel very , if you know what I mean. It must be from that wine I had before bed. Red wine dreams are always good. Aphex Twin is always good. Today is going to be an awesome day, I can just feel it.
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True Grit
The guy I work across from, Angry Hiro, spent the whole day teaching a particularly inept vendor a lesson by yelling at them on the phone for ten hours straight. I am currently trying to recall the funniest combinations of “dumbass,” “dipshit,” and “fuckhead,” and spent most of the day cracking up with my coworkers. Angry Hiro even used our amusement to belittle them, holding up the receiver and yelling shit like, “Do you hear that? They’re laughing at YOU! ASSHOLES!” In between bouts, he was popping these little white pills like mad and wiping sweat off his brow with this gaudy brown-and-black checkered hanky embossed with a Chanel logo.…
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Shopping Alert
If you are a techno gadget freak, this is not news to you but I’m posting this for all other forms of life in Japan: BUY AN LCD MONITOR RIGHT NOW! I bought two last week because everyone is predicting the prices will rise again soon… I bought a new high performance 17″ Mitsu for 1/2 the sticker price (at an online store I use often – PC Success), and it’s kicking ass for all the games I play. I also got a 17″ Iiyama for Nam, who spends many hours every day working on her doctoral thesis – this should help prevent eye strain. Our old CRT’s are out…
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Endangered Specieswatch: The Humpbacked Obachan
I am too respectful to post a pic, but believe me, I have surreptitiously photographed several. Yes, Concerned Reader, it is true: The Humpbacked Obachan is on the verge of becoming an endangered species. On my island, at least. And seeing how Awajishima is basically a giant, floating retirement community for aoriika longliners and graying mobsters alike, I am an eminent expert on, for lack of a better term, old people. The subject in question, humpticulous spinstrisis, or, “Humpy” for short, is, simply, an ancient, stooped-over (sometimes more than 90 degrees!) lady (some of who sport humps on their backs – duh!). And I say “lady” in the female sense…
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Pic o’ the Day
I beat anorexia! I so want that shirt. Update: Dave found a link where I can get one: LINK
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My high school dean was right
Link found somewhere (just before my browser crashed): 20 Questions to a Better Personality …. You are a WRDL–Wacky Rational Destructive Leader. This makes you a Enemy of the State. You are charismatic and winning and a very dangerous enemy. You favor justice over compassion, and would almost rather see your opponent fail than you succeed. You impact the lives of those around you more than any other personality. People remember your name and respect you. You are a tremendous amount of fun to be around and astonishing to watch. You are generally abstinent in your habits, and you like things tidy and ordered. When picking teams, it is smartest…
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Dumplings and Roadkill
Two good links today: One for the Road: West Virginia’s Roadkill Cookoff Bitter cold spurs dumpling madness
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Mongolian Mustard-seed Antagonism
I’m back, after a five-day stretch being tortured by Koga ninjas in their secret lair under Lake Biwa. Fortunately, I survived by using my wits and took them all out with my killer combos: whooping peony-blossom punch explosive hawk flip double star thrust laughing taoist penetration invincible eagle wall resplendent sage knee yellow emperor’s secret charge burning fox-woman defense abominable goldfish jab unfathomable secret scratch venerable sky elbow illusory scorpion technique fire of the eunuch penetration innocent willow heel When you’re time comes, will your kung fu be good enough?
