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Lindsay Nelson-Santos
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Japanese cinema (especially horror), Japanese popular culture. Book: Circulating Fear. Film reviews at eigafile.com, CV at lindsaynelson.jp. she/her
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More pretty leaves in Tamagawa and near Waseda.
Image shows bright red leaves framing a tall stone staircase. Image shows the top of a long stone staircase with red leaves on the right. Image shows a mix of red, yellow, and green autumn leaves. Image shows bright yellow ginkgo leaves and a sign for the Waseda Sports Museum.
November 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving, or as I call it Day When It's Officially Okay to Start Eating the Panettone I Bought Two Weeks Ago.
Image shows a red box of Panettone on a table.
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Pretty early morning light and leaves on campus today.
Image shows a blue sky, university buildings, and a few trees with orange-red leaves.
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Rewatched Parasite for an upcoming class and now I have to make ramdon for dinner (minus the fancy beef).
Image shows two packages of Nongshim Korean instant noodles, jjapagetti and neoguri.
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The 'From a Distant Window' exhibit at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is just wonderful. TOP might be my favorite Tokyo museum, they just always knock it out of the park with their very accessible and well-designed exhibits.
Image shows a clock in darkness with an image of a hallway bounded by brightly lit shoji screens beneath the clock face. Image shows colorful blue and white textiles hanging from wires and a large image of a map projected on the back wall of a dark room. Image shows two photos on top of each other, each of an elderly person's hand reaching out to grasp the hand of a small child. Image shows a tiny photo of a man and a chair surrounded by a very large photo frame.
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Sunday with my beloved yautja. ❤️
Image shows the author standing next to a cardboard standee of the main character from Predator: Badlands.
November 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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RIP Alice Wong. ❤️
Image shows a statement penned by disability activist and writer Alice Wong, posted by her friend Sandy Ho, on the day of her passing.
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Made vegetarian soondubu for dinner, it was good (and also cleared out my sinuses nicely).
Image shows a bowl of rice next to a bowl of soondubu (Korean soup made with red pepper powder, tofu, onions, garlic, and a poached egg).
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Tried out a new hole in the wall place for lunch and WOW this was good, everything super fresh and flavorful. #washoku #teishoku
Image shows a teishoku that includes three different kinds of pickled vegetables, miso soup, salad, shredded daikon, and grilled fish (rice and fruit yogurt dessert not pictured).
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Sadly no time to do anything for Halloween this year so here's a short parade of costumes past.
Image shows the author in white face paint that resembles a cracked porcelain doll with human skin emerging from the cracks. Image shows the author in a black leotard and tutu, with makeup and feathered gloves inspired by Black Swan. Image shows the author dressed as "reviewer 2," with a comment bubble that reads "This paper should be shredded, burned, and buried in consecrated ground." Image shows the author and her sister circa 1985--the author is dressed in a handmade She-Ra costume, while her sister is dressed as a UT cheerleader with orange pompoms.
October 31, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Sigh, it was kinda lame, a collection of generic 'spooky' models and sets that weren't really connected to specific films. Took some fun photos, though.
Image shows a small window covered in wooden slats shrouded in shadow. Image shows a pale hand creeping around the edge of a partially open metal door. Image shows the view from a dark room through a window looking out on a tree and a wind chime. Image shows two bloody handprints on a white curtain, the bottom half of which is covered in mud.
October 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Post a vampire that's not Dracula.
Black-and-white image shows a woman with her hair pulled back and her lips parted, the title character from the 1994 film Nadja.
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Took the zemisei on a field trip to the Museum of Contemporary Art to see the 日常のコレオ/Choreographies of the Everyday exhibit, which was very cool.
Image shows the giant glass and concrete corridor at the entrance of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Image shows a canvas painting of a tatami mat that looks exactly like an actual tatami mat. Image shows a large poster of a man in green sunglasses and a bright green suit holding a durian, with the label 'Thorniture, by FAMEME.' Image shows a giant, neon green-yellow inflated object that resembles a durian.
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Let's GO, baby!!!
Image shows the purchase page for the game Strange Antiquities, with two women and a man dressed in Victorian clothing and a magnifying glass containing a skull superimposed over a gold flower.
October 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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First time being served by a robot waiter (at Jonathan's, where I haven't eaten in like 15 years).
October 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Boosted, baby! See you on the other side of the delirium and sore arm.
Image shows half of the author's face and a small square bandaid on her shoulder.
October 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Seen in the faculty office common area.
Image shows a collection of looseleaf tea tins and cylinders on a wooden table with a typewritten sign that reads "For display only. DO NOT REMOVE THE CADDIES AND TINS." In red ink under this someone has written WHY?
October 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Rafael brought one of these home from My Basket and it was so insanely good that I immediately went back to the store and bought four more. Only 110 yen each and I think they might be vegan?!!
Image shows a green cup of instant noodles labeled Vietnam Pho.
October 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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If you happen to pass by the digital billboard on top of the Eggslut/Luke's Lobster Roll building at the edge of Shinjuku Southern Terrace and catch a very brief ad for Takashimaya that plays every five minutes or so you might hear a familiar voice. 😀
October 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Soup curry after a ten hour day, so good. Still doing spiciness level one but maybe I'll up it to two next time. #LivingOnTheEdge
Image shows a bowl of soup curry with carrot, lotus root, bell peppers, broccoli, and a chicken leg next to a bowl of bright yellow saffron rice.
September 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Watching the latest Fake Documentary Q and this cat has definitely seen some things.
Image shows a woman holding a cat that looks terrified.
September 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Unique Japanese desserts, September edition.
Image shows an ice cream dessert package with a drawing of corn on the cob on the outside, the word とうきび, and drawing of Hokkaido. Image shows the ice cream dessert package opened, revealing a wafer shell shaped and colored like corn on the cob.
September 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Didn't make it to the 万博 but a sweet grad student brought me these Myaku Myaku-themed matcha cookies.
Image shows a paper bag with red and blue lettering that reads 'Osaka Expo Official Store.' Image shows an open tin of cookies, revealing plastic wrapped cookies with a green Myaku Myaku drawing on the plastic.
September 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Prepping some day 1 slides, credit to Ted Chiang for the forklift analogy.
Image shows a picture of a weightlifter, a forklift, and a car, with text "Please review the ChatGPT policy! If you're an athlete, you lift weights and exercise so that your muscles stay strong. But a forklift could lift weights much better than you. A car could drive faster than you can run." Image shows a weightlifter and an image of a forklift and sports car (the latter with a red "X" over them). Text reads "But no coach will ever recommend using a forklift or a car instead of lifting weights and exercising! Why? Because your brain is a muscle. And if you don't use your brain, it gets weak and soft." Image shows a weightlifter, a forklift, and a sports car, the latter two with a red "X" over them. Text reads: "Using ChatGPT or AI to do university assignments is like using a forklift or a car to train as an athlete. Please...just don't do it. Part of my job as a professor is to help you learn how to use your brain, and if you use ChatGPT or AI to do your assignments, you aren't using your brain."
September 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Final tea and scone before takeoff.
Image shows a cup of tea and scone on a table with large windows and airport runways in the background.
September 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM