Some Small Gifts came out back in the early days of summer, when temperatures rest at their most comfortable and ice cream seemed like a wise daily purchase post work. Now my walk home features leaves caught between yellow and red, and stops at convenience stores where they’ve already set up Christmas aisles next to…
Special Sunday post to help close out a busy weekend…not sure what you did, but hope it was fun. I went to an Outback Steakhouse and took 12 years off my life before watching college football into the wee hours of the morning. Productive! Anyway, let’s spotlight what appears to be three snippets of new…
I’ve been in Tokyo all week, just sort of loafing about, and on one of my random walks I ended up in Harajuku. Amongst the waves of garish-pink fabric and whipped-cream-heavy crepes, I spied the official AKB48 store, Harajuku branch. I almost went in, except 1.) you had to wait in line with 2.) a…
Here’s something I’ll never type again…reader, have mercy on the songs featured here this week. Due to a combination of moving woes (“what do you mean I’m out of boxes?????? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN’T FIND MY APARTMENT??????”) and the [REDACTED] (this sounded way more melodramatic when I wrote it Wednesday, let’s just move…
In May, I found myself spending a rainy weekend in Tokyo. Somewhere between trips to Denny’s and the official NHK store to buy gifts for friends, I ended up in Shibuya’s club district, a vast stretch of nightclubs and love hotels staring each other down, intoxicated folks spilling out of both. This district, the name…