A sign specifically forbidding standing urination in the parking lot of Ms. K’s, a funky cafe in Nara where T plays gigs every week.

I took my camera to work last Thursday so I could snap some photos on the way home. This is a construction barge that’s been scooping mud from the river…

(click to open larger popup) This is a photo I found from a couple months ago. It was taken at a flower park called hanasajiki that I try and visit…

Anybody know offhand what this bad boy is? (click on image to enlarge) I found him crawling on my car last month. When I tried to touch him, he flew…

Some photos Nam took with her new Coolpix S6 when we passed under the longest suspension bridge in the world (4km) last month on the Taco Ferry (this “taco” means…

Chinchin! One of the photos Nam took today, her last full day in Japan for the foreseeable future. We went on a drive out to Akashi to look for a…

My sister Mika has started a volunteer gig at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, one day a week, at the penguin exhibit. MY SISTER IS A PENGUIN WRANGLER! AT THE MONTEREY…

“The Kaen is the oldest form of the free reed family, the great great grandaddy of the harmonica and accordion. This type of instrument goes back to at least 1100BC…

WANKO – “Sweet life with precious dogs” That’s just wrong.

(Thx to XY)

Someone sent this to me with the caption, “CANON 30D.” It is immediately apparent that I was wrong in recommending a Nikon to my little brother last week. Maybe they’ll…