The First of Many Daily Photos That Will Fail to Be Daily

Believe it or not, I haven't given up blogging. The pure exhastion that comes with teaching preschool (not English, but all subjects) has been keeping me down. But I have resolved to try and blog one picture each day at least. Because I have thousands. I'll just work my way up chronologically. Our first entry comes from a town in Nagasaki that borders my old haunt in south Saga-ken. I can't recall the town's name at the moment, but it had weird bus stands. Near the coast, they were all shaped like giant fruit, and in the mountains they had odd murals like the above one.  I can't explain what is happening. Do you know? In any case, this was kinda close to the random amusement park in the mountains with a herb theme and be-statued fountains that nobody but me ever visited. That's Japan for ya.

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Narita's Interesting Station Architecture

I was sitting just outside Narita station, noting the shrine/temple style exterior.


Narita is quite far from Yokohama, but I'm here for my first payed acting gig in Japan: being an extra. Most of my fellow thespians seem to be Russian women. They are quite pretty and tall.
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Tentacle Lunch

This betenticled, canned, whole-squid lunch could be something out of Naked Lunch, but it's par for the course for your hapless ¥100 store adventurer of a blogger.



And no, I don't recommend this. There's still beak chunks in it.
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Hopeless Romantic Album Now Accessible

You may have noticed if you tried to click-zoom on any of the recent mobile posts' images that the functionality was locked. This was a necessary step to give me time to remove my dwarf porn*. Now it's cleaned up and ready for the public. You can even see images from post I removed, like my failed tries at the 200 bad comics challenge and comment on them.

The Hopeless Romantic

*: Dwarf porn is the last refuge of a D&D scoundrel.

J Life Pic: Fiber Cola

I got a surprise the other night at the 7-11: Diet Coke with fiber added. It's not regular coke, but it keeps you regular. Oh, that was bad. I promise I won't dump such a crappy joke on you again.


In case you missed it, I vlogged a taste test of Coke's last special flavor.
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Pics from Japan: Halloween Lesson

This scary devil is me. I'm with about 30 kids (+parents) and we are trick or treating at a few designated spots. It made for a fun, one time gig. More pics to come in a video on my youtubes.



Wat? Tinsel is teh scary yos.

Pic of the Moment: Spida

I'm currently sitting under Ropongi Hill's famous spider sculpture. I think it's pregnant, 'cause those white things seem to be eggs.



If you want to see a more natural Japanse spider, albiet with an accent, be sure to check my recent YouTube videos (link on the upper-right of this blog).

I'm off to see the Tokyo Film fest (that's why I'm in the hills)!
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Pic of the Moment: Macha: Green McFlurry

Not too long ago--er, maybe a year ago, knowing how long it takes me to blog some things-- Makku (that's McD's for those of you outside of Japan) had macha McFlurries. I love macha in my food. Greeny catechin goodness.

Related: Catechin Coke.