It smells like a bonfire made from burning tires on a New Jersey beach at low tide on a hot summer day.
Guess which family resturant. Easy question for anyone who’s lived in Japan.
Squid Ink Spaghetti
Tag: photo
Fetish Bar
Every time I pass this sign, I can’t help wondering what exactly a “fetish bar” is and what people do there. Can you order a Tom Collins with a stiletto-heeled kick in the nuts chaser? If you ask for a bottle of beer does the waitress ram it up your ass? Alas, I will never find out. My only fetish is for brainy geek chicks who wear wire rim glasses and can code in languages I’ve barely heard of.
Stunning HDR photos of Japan, mostly Okinawa
HDR Japan is a relatively new website featuring High Dynamic Range photos of Okinawa and other parts of Japan taken by some very talented photographers. I hope they don’t mind me using one of the photos to show off their work.
It’s a very professional-looking website, built with the Joomla content management system.
kinda dumb.
A glasses retail chain in Japan made a splash on various blogs and news sites lately with a new mobile site that lets you try on specs using your camphone. In reality, all you do is download an overlay and put it over a photo. Hardly very innovative or convenient. Here I’m using a random mugshot from The Smoking Gun. Framesdirect.com is a much more quick and convenient way to see how you look wearing different glasses.
Sony Rolly at Gizmodo meetup
It’s too dark to take a picture of anything else.
This is the dumbest product in the $300-400 range I’ve ever seen. Basically, it blinks, rolls around and plays music via Bluetooth. That’s all.
Old what’s his name
I can’t think of this actor’s name, but he must have gotten paid a fortune to lend his curmudgeonly rugged looks to hawking canned coffee. I think this photo needs a thought balloon added to it.
Sembei with holy frikkin’ WASPS in them!
This is the kind of news from Japan I suspect is the norm. Am I right or wrong? I’ll admit that it’s a fact, as reported a few days ago by the Asahi Shimbun, that that a town called Omachi in Nagano Prefecture is selling rice crackers with wholesome waspy goodness baked right in.
But if you come away with only one new bit of knowledge after reading my blog, I hope it’s the realization that this kind of stuff makes the news because it’s not normal.
All the weird, zany, wacky news from Japan like this you read on blogs? Most of it is considered weird here too. I’ve seen and eaten all kinds of sembei throughout my 18 years of living here, but you could live out your whole life in this country and never come across any kind of food with bugs in it on purpose. The thing is, I bet if I started posting news like this more often, my readership and Google ranking (currently 4, which is pretty darn good) would increase. I refuse to do that. In fact, I try my best to do the opposite: show you what daily life is really like (i.e. kinda boring, really).
But I have to admit, I’d love to try jibachi sembei. If it passes for “food” somewhere in the world, I’ll eat it. Whenever there’s something on a menu that’s outrageous or I don’t know what exactly it is, that’s what I order.
And please, call them “sembei,” not “rice crackers.” It irks me it when people call food by its description instead of its real name.
More wrecking fun
I wish I could stand here all day and watch that claw machine take huge bites out of cement and rebar.
Testing a theory
Sometimes I wonder if I could blog about damn near anything and you sorry-ass, no-life-having suckers would just eat it up.
P.S. I installed a disemvowlization plugin a few minutes ago and I’m just raring to use it.
P.P.S. Screw you.