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Friday, December 26, 2008

Snowing in Kyoto

posted by Xray at 7:09 am  

Friday, December 26, 2008

Wild boar

Last night we went to a hunters izakaya in Kyoto. The taisho, Aoki-
san, hunts the game himself, picks the mushrooms and grows the
vegetables. It was an amazing dinner.

Here is the menu:

Wild boar
Steamed bear shoulder
Bear rump
Smoked goose
Miso yaki veg
Grasshopper
Bees and bee larvae
Wild shitake mushrooms
Grilled tofu
Black snake whisky
Red snake whisky
Okinawa snake whisky
Giant killer bee whisky
Wasabe leaf salad

posted by Xray at 5:31 am  

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Streaming Santas

Someone was streaming live video of Santa from Tokyo! The captured streams and some more pictures are on-line here:

http://blog.jibunya.com/?eid=1126484

posted by Xray at 11:26 pm  

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Not My Pics, but…

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My friend Santa Trevor has posted his pictures for your enjoyment! You can see the rest of his pictures at Trevor`s  gallerylittliebig

 

There`s something special about little girls drinking big bottles of booze.

posted by Xray at 4:56 pm  

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Picture coming… Eventually

Santacon Tokyo was great! I didn’t bring a laptop so there is a delay
posting pictures while I wait to get on one.

Cheers,
-X

posted by Xray at 2:14 pm  

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Smiled upon

Somehow, after all the rerouting and a two hour delay in the Tarmac,
possibly caused by security cocern over my bag tags that didn’t match my itinerary and the fact that they tried to stop me boarding because even though I had a boarding pass it wasn’t in their system, I and my luggage arrived at the same time. Oyabun Santas luggage arrived a few hours later, having made a short side trip to Australia.

Cheers,
-X

posted by Xray at 1:52 pm  

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Pray to the Baggage Gods!

Due to booking with frequent flyer miles, my original itinerary flew to
from SFO to FAT to LAX to NRT with no padding for late flights. The
first leg got pushed back 30 minutes after I had checked in so they
booked me on a direct flight to LAX and need to transfer my bags. Now I
can only pray that the Baggage Gods smile kindly upon my travels. I
don’t know what Oyabun Santa did to piss them off but his bags were lost
enroute to NRT yesterday.

posted by Xray at 1:07 pm  

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Santarchy Tokyo 2008

20071222-Santarchy-Tokyo-F30-010 by cabcab.

I just booked my tickets for Santacon Tokyo 2008. I’ll be in Tokyo from Dec. 19th-31st. Join us for the 6th annual Santacon Tokyo on Saturday, Dec. 20th. Santacon Tokyo is always the last Saturday before Christmas. Santa meets at noon at the Hatchiko statue in Shibuya Station. There are sure to be lots of other fun things going on after that as well. If you’re in Tokyo let me know. 

Japanese readers can find the link here- http://www.magarisugi.net/santa/

or see the google translated version here- http://tinyurl.com/6apdmn

posted by Xray at 3:08 am  

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Pink Lady and Jeff

The 1980 show from Sid and Marty Krofft defies explanation.

Well, actually, there is a pretty good explanation on Wikipedia.

(more…)

posted by Xray at 5:44 pm  

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Natto

This morning I went down for breakfast at the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel,
where I’m staying in Jakarta. Of my own free will I chose to eat a bowl
of soba noodles with natto from the Japanese portion of the buffet. I
liked it. Rie must really be rubbing off on me.

posted by Xray at 4:49 pm  
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