And after six years I’d like to say this: I have been listening to this podcast called Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend the last couple days and passing something called a “Buddy Bench” at the park sometimes. It’s apparently a bench you go to when you are on recess and you have no one to […]
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I’ve noticed people are walking away from me while I’m talking lately. Example: Me: You know what I was thinking? My Brother: I’m listening, I just have to give this cat a pill. (my brother gets up from his chair and walks out of the room to (presumably) feed a cat some dry and urgently […]
The night after I came back from Japan I was offered a job in Saudi Arabia. How to explain how this came about? It’s not entirely clear. Internet job boards are very dangerous things for me in combination with a glass of white wine, a little free time, and anxiety about poverty. I will just […]
I’m back in the You Es of Aeyyyy! And this weekend is so damn Americaney. Sometimes I have little shocks about how not like Japan things are i.e. I reached into my mom’s purse to get a pen when I got back, and there was just a whole raw apple in there. You don’t come […]
Each edition of d design travel is devoted to a prefecture. The print edition is know for its beautiful covers, and to me anyway, its awesomely formal side by side English translations of the Japanese text. i.e. this one’s from the bilingual app description of the store Mitate: “The culmination of Setsuko Yamada’s work in directing Japanese and Tokyo […]
I don’t usually do helpful content. It’s not my thing: helpful. Now, if you’re looking for lightly edited anecdotes about one woman’s opinion on Japanese dog hair arrangement magazines at the supermarket–and who isn’t?– I’m your blog. If you want to read about one woman’s general ennui and specific troubled incidents with bicycle ownership and parking […]
I’ve had an idea for a long time that there ought to be a social worker, a little table, and two chairs on every train platform in the Tokyo area. I’d visit, probably just to talk out why I was missing this one train connection about three days a week and to sit down, but […]
In the group home recently we had a party. Someone brought Jagermeister because it’s getting closer to Christmas, but we didn’t open it because we had enough alcohol. Someone asked what it tasted like and I said tastes like sweat from a reindeer’s balls, but I only know the word for deer so really I […]
Americans tend to think they’re the only consumers who use food choices as a means for self-harm, but I’ve got news for them, there’s an international market of tired hungry people interested in fatty absurdest food creations. May I present to you some rolls filled with stew, among other things, that I saw at a […]
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) I don’t know anything about business, but I have some undeniably good ideas, and I suspect the way the business world works is that if you write about them on a lightly viewed and poorly edited blog, that’s like calling dibs on them, and then they’re yours and no one can take […]
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