At Nazo no Paradaisu (Paradise of Mysteries) attraction on my island, Awajishima. My main blog will feature a photo essay on the strange exhibits we found there.

I think the sky came out quite nicely in this photo. It’s funny to me how small pictures can show so much detail.

On stairs leading up to the plateau from which I took the pic above, at Nijo-Jo in Kyoto.

18-inch 5-stars on a jet black, pimp-ass AMG. Shit, this company must be owned by Suge Knight.

An actual raincoat for dogs, seen at Jusco in Tenri. I guess this would come in handy if you’ve shaved your pooch in preparation for eating or whatever.

This is an evil flavor of tea provided for us for free at work. On the syrup box shown here it says that it is a combination of two common…

This is one of the more interesting views of the factory where I work. Depressing, that.

These are decent as Japanese chocolate bars go, but my absolute favorite was a product called Woody, “Made with Corn”.

Taken at Chibo Okonomiyaki at Itoya Kado in Nara after gigantic lunch with the Sheahans.

Copping a feel at the new Itoya Kado department store in Nara. The NuBra is constantly hyped on SkyPerfect TV in between shows. Ah, the joys of television shopping!

The most meaningless lemon art I have ever seen (yes, there is meaningful lemon art). The 400 yen I paid for this coke somehow seems even less justified with this…

Display window of Sony Store in Hep 5, Umeda.