X-Radiation

I bought a few rather interesting toys in Japan. All of these were picked up at Kiddyland in Omotesando and many can also be found up on-line at Strapya World.

Aero Spider:

Bandai Company: Tuttuki Bako, Tangible Interactive Game 2008

Gun-O-Clock alarm clock

Please watch “The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief“. It’s a wonderful documentary about host boys in Osaka. It starts out kind of happy-go-lucky but spirals into a world of relative sadness as it turns out that most of the women customers of Stylish Club Ryakko are themselves hostesses and sex workers who need to buy the affections of host boys over thousand dollar champagne calls since their own attempts at normal relationships have gone the dysfuntional route.

Great Happiness Space

The pictures from our trip to Japan have begun sprouting on the web. Follow this link to Xray’s Santarchy Japan 2008 Pictures!

 

You can also follow this link to Mr. Tongodeon’s Flickr Pool for Japan 2008!

Last night was had one of the most interesting dinners I have ever tasted. We ate at an izakaya in Kyoto called Okariba. The taisho, Aoki-san, hunts his own wild game, forages his own mushrooms, grows his own vegetables and raises his own bees and locusts. On the menu last night:

Grilled Wild Boar Skewers

Steamed Bear Shoulder in lemon shoyu

Bear rump

Smoked goose

Misoyaki Vegetables

Grasshoppers

Bees and bee larvae

While shitake mushrooms

Grilled pan fried tofu

Black Snake Whisky

Red Snake Whisky

Okinanwa Snake Whisky

Giant Killer Bee Whisky

Wasabe Leaf Salad

If you ever make it to Kyoto and are a serious carnivore this is the place to go for a unique experience. Aoki-san was charming and welcommed us to try each dish with an explanation of it’s origin including when and where he bagged it. His hunting rifles are proudly on display in the restaurant.

If society ever falls apart, I have a feeling Aoki-san will be right at home.

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

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

 

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

 

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

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

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