I've been
here a while. Not "I've lived here since I was
born" kind of a while, but long enough that I stopped trying to
understand some things. Case in point:
Or this:
This next one may not be particularly bizarre until you think about the juxtaposition of the images.
Basically, it seems to say "if you throw your litter on big dogs, teenage girls will think you're cute."
Or this one, where a cute puppy with a brain of rice tries to persuade you to crack open his skull and have lunch:
POSTED: No aluminum sneezing elephants allowed.
Here's yet another example of that hoary old clichÈ: "nothing sells vacations like an old man's butt."
No wonder things are so bizarre. Even the animal life likes to indulge in recreational pharmaceuticals.
DUDE! I can so totally see God right now!
Here, a frog with a bad haircut stands on two legs and warns you that improper disposal of your trash may cause fish to fly.
Despite the fact I'm about to have my four month anniversary, I still walk down the street and get caught off guard by stuff like this:
...because Americans are naturally drawn to King Kong in patriotic boxers.
Some of the less reputable nightclubs are pretty straightforward about their theme, like the one on the top of this particular sign:
...which explains why Kong is climbing that building, I guess.
The rules of etiquette can be a bit confusing to non-natives:
Is that a crayon in his pants, or is Pikachu just happy to see me?
Nice to see they're taking a stand against all that mock transportation:
They're running out of ideas for theme restaurants.
Yeah, dream on, buddy.
Some of the signs are the result of bad translations, spellings, etc. This one...I dunno.
ANYWAY.
We had an 5.2 earthquake here. If you've never experienced an earthquake, it looks like this:
It was a rather odd experience. You could tell who the foreigners were (not that you'd have a hard time distinguishing in the first place) by the fact that they were freaking out. The Japanese people I saw just kind of sat there. If the guy across from me hadn't chuckled to himself a little after it was over, I would have thought he failed to notice.
Twinkie Man was too busy picking up chicks to worry about earthquakes.
His Japanese stinks, however. Looks like his invitation to dinner could have been phrased a little better.
Which is just as well, since he's a notoriously cheap date.
OK, enough of that. Here's Surugi and I letting the guy at open mic night what we think of his rendition of "I Write The Songs."
I managed to squeeze a bit of sightseeing in when I wasn't busy putting the DVD together (which takes forever, by the way.)
This is the most visited spot in the world (I think.) This statue is of a dog that waited something like seven years for its master to return (the master had died.) Somebody made the sculpture to honor the dog, and now it's the most popular meeting place in the World.
"Yeah, meet me by the patient dog at 4:30."
One more thing: I'm slowly improving my Gothic Lolita photography skills.
Gothic Lolitas scare easily, and have been known to invoke magical powers to blur any photographs that somehow manage to get taken. Fortunately, they seem to believe that if they can't see you, you can't see them.
(OK, so she just happened to be brushing her hair from her face when I took this. The posed shots didn't come out.)
OK, back to the DVD authoring program. Looks like the thing might be a little over an hour or so (although that's just a guess.) It's taking longer than I anticipated, so I'm shooting (realistically) for a mass-mailing in two weeks or so. If you haven't yet sent me your address, email it to me here. Until next time...
Or this:
This next one may not be particularly bizarre until you think about the juxtaposition of the images.
Basically, it seems to say "if you throw your litter on big dogs, teenage girls will think you're cute."
Or this one, where a cute puppy with a brain of rice tries to persuade you to crack open his skull and have lunch:
POSTED: No aluminum sneezing elephants allowed.
Here's yet another example of that hoary old clichÈ: "nothing sells vacations like an old man's butt."
No wonder things are so bizarre. Even the animal life likes to indulge in recreational pharmaceuticals.
DUDE! I can so totally see God right now!
Here, a frog with a bad haircut stands on two legs and warns you that improper disposal of your trash may cause fish to fly.
Despite the fact I'm about to have my four month anniversary, I still walk down the street and get caught off guard by stuff like this:
...because Americans are naturally drawn to King Kong in patriotic boxers.
Some of the less reputable nightclubs are pretty straightforward about their theme, like the one on the top of this particular sign:
...which explains why Kong is climbing that building, I guess.
The rules of etiquette can be a bit confusing to non-natives:
Is that a crayon in his pants, or is Pikachu just happy to see me?
Nice to see they're taking a stand against all that mock transportation:
They're running out of ideas for theme restaurants.
Yeah, dream on, buddy.
Some of the signs are the result of bad translations, spellings, etc. This one...I dunno.
ANYWAY.
We had an 5.2 earthquake here. If you've never experienced an earthquake, it looks like this:
It was a rather odd experience. You could tell who the foreigners were (not that you'd have a hard time distinguishing in the first place) by the fact that they were freaking out. The Japanese people I saw just kind of sat there. If the guy across from me hadn't chuckled to himself a little after it was over, I would have thought he failed to notice.
Twinkie Man was too busy picking up chicks to worry about earthquakes.
His Japanese stinks, however. Looks like his invitation to dinner could have been phrased a little better.
Which is just as well, since he's a notoriously cheap date.
OK, enough of that. Here's Surugi and I letting the guy at open mic night what we think of his rendition of "I Write The Songs."
I managed to squeeze a bit of sightseeing in when I wasn't busy putting the DVD together (which takes forever, by the way.)
This is the most visited spot in the world (I think.) This statue is of a dog that waited something like seven years for its master to return (the master had died.) Somebody made the sculpture to honor the dog, and now it's the most popular meeting place in the World.
"Yeah, meet me by the patient dog at 4:30."
One more thing: I'm slowly improving my Gothic Lolita photography skills.
Gothic Lolitas scare easily, and have been known to invoke magical powers to blur any photographs that somehow manage to get taken. Fortunately, they seem to believe that if they can't see you, you can't see them.
(OK, so she just happened to be brushing her hair from her face when I took this. The posed shots didn't come out.)
OK, back to the DVD authoring program. Looks like the thing might be a little over an hour or so (although that's just a guess.) It's taking longer than I anticipated, so I'm shooting (realistically) for a mass-mailing in two weeks or so. If you haven't yet sent me your address, email it to me here. Until next time...