Archive for February, 2007

mission complete

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Christopher Noss: 1869-1934: Kitayama Reien, Sendai. 1447h 15 Feb. I can go home now.
Oh and the other ones kind of stand for themselves. Matt wrestled sumo. I shot a flock of seagulls (just a sniper LENS, though). We went snow tubing at a willy-wonka-esque chocolate factory at the end of the subway in […]

敦賀, here i come!

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

It’s off to Tsuruga (kanji i just learned, 敦賀). 1445 rapid on the kosei line… then 15 minutes on some bus with no romaji signs, but a woman working at the Kyoto TIC wrote out a Japanese phrase that i can show people to find it (thank you TIC woman!!)… and then 20 hours […]

i ate octopus balls

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

well, imean, takoyaki really is little balls with octopus inside. 300yen for eight of `em.

(oh, and i`m still alive and well! and having a fantastic adventure that will make it online sooner or later) (with photographic proof that i ran into colin the guy with my mtn hardware jacket again in kyoto this […]

off into the wild kansai yonder, tonight!

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

tis not quite the wild blue, rather, its the so-called cultural
capital of japan… and i suppose they probably ‘have the same shit
they got here, it’s just a little different.’ But any way it goes, it
should bring me back with some good stories and maybe a couple
pictures… there is a 20 hour ferry ride up […]

el mundo es un panuelo

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

up 0430. eat can of boiled eggs in soy sauce (improvised breakfast) 0440. jog to musashi-kosugi 0500. ride the tokyu corporation’s toyoko line to naka-meguro, arr 0534. catch tokyo metro’s hibiya line 0537. switch to toei corporation’s oedo line at roppongi station 0551. 0602h, after that snapshot of tokyo train confusion (each company’s […]