had to buy one of those little guys when my fam was there last summer. shop owner showed me a list of common symbols in tanuki statues

i have felt this way since grad school. at this point i don’t even pay attention to them.

i NEEDED an overpriced 808 tshirt!

still hilarious and all too accurate every time

it appears that one of the trial locations is just a couple blocks from the hotel my family and i will stay at in shinjuku later this week. daughters will go crazy over this. thanks!

any record stores that cannot be missed in tokyo, nagoya, kyoto, or osaka?

she was originally a so-cal girl. here she is back in pasadena in 2008.

have to give them a pass on this…

that could have gone on for an hour or so…

we just did this for a box turtle on the highway near our neighborhood a couple weeks ago. no pee thankfully!