A Trip to the Zoo +some other random photos

Tani-san and friends

This fellow's Japanese name translates (roughly)
to: delicious leg creature.


This little fellow reminds me of Scratch.





Crazy eyes!

Crazy lips..

Crazy Japanese.


The Japanese says, 'Cape Penguin.' I have no idea
what's up with the translation ;^_^

Tani-san is tired from too much aquarium.

The Kyushu-daigaku architecture lab ant aquarium.
For unreasonably in depth coverage of the 'ant situation',
go to this blog that Quarter made: arigato3.blogspot.com

I honestly don't know where he finds the time.

Ah, my own personal wellspring of caffeine. So
beautiful, so beautiful..

My old Kanji professor gave me an omiyage from
Kyoto. It was delicious.

Rasmus

今

Daft Hands

This is like a thing that the world's most awesome middle schooler ever would think to do.

addiction

Chicken Toast

You try to make one 'chicken butt' joke and the whole morning gets shot to hell. This is the beginning of what transpired between Micah and I.

11:04 AM me: chicken butt

11:05 AM Micah: butt head

11:06 AM me: chicken stead

11:07 AM Micah: butt tread

11:09 AM me: chicken meds!

11:10 AM medically induced seizure

11:11 AM chicken pleasure!

pleasure palace

shicken salad!

salad greens

chicken means!

means of assurance

chicken observance!

11:12 AM observance of proper procedures

chicken entreaters!

11:13 AM Micah: chicken entendre

trippple entannte

me: chicken enfante

enfante terrible

Micah: chicken alliance

me: holy alliance

11:14 AM chicken silence

Micah: terrible chicken Mc Mac-a-Man

Mac daddly chicken mastuohrbarer

me: chicken tic-tac flavorin

Micah: flava chicken flavah

me: chicken bandolier

11:15 AM flavah flav

chicken rave

Micah: daddly duck wings strap

me: chicken cap

Micah: rave of wings

bring it back again

funny ole

chicken things

Mc-Cracker-Smack

11:16 AM Chicken Wing Bitch Slap

me: chicken wing

chicken rack

rack of lamb

chicken scam

shicken strap

strap on

chicken don

dontaku matsuri

11:17 AM chicken philharmony

11:18 AM Micah patrimony

11:19 AM also known as boats

chicken floats

like a duck

chicken is stuck

chicken ruckus

bufkus

chicken cous cous

chicken on moose

hot chicken on moose action

Micah: whats that?

11:20 AM me: big antlers, tiny beaks

Micah: a whilrl a girl

someone got the keyboard

strapped on

and its

time for some no pen

of touch screen

hot and heavy

keyboard poetry

slam

in brians

me: chicken beavy

Micah: face action

as fast

me: of hot action

Micah: as I can

deal it

s fast as

me: chicken blast

Micah: he can

feel it

me: chicken tan

Micah: chicken blast

me: impossible

Micah: up yo ass

impossible

me: chicken fast

Micah: feat of nature like a chicken wing breathing

me: (that menas eating no chicken)

11:21 AM chicken teasing

Micah: so hard it flows my mind to touch and go it blows

like a flowing

heaving

hunk a gema gema star chicken loving ness

me: chicken best

Micah: chickens so far

speak to me

peacefully

while i sleep

me: direct connection

Micah: dreams at best

me: to chicken heave

Micah: my dest in y rest

me: the eternal chicken rest

Micah: on the souls of these feet

11:22 AM crow ded streets

jumping

to the chicken flavored beat

of jappamanahattanian sauce

on creole beans and rice

11:23 AM suffix prefix object you wanna bet i fuck you up

so bad

that it hurts and bleeds

beyond the pain of sleepless chicken hazy dreams

These messages were sent while you were offline.

11:23 AM Micah: but where and when is up to you

11:24 AM so spin the wheel and realize

that a thousand deals

come with a side of fries

at yo' Magic kingdom

Popeyes

hahaha

11:21 AM Micah: that walk on these

11:25 AM me: I'm sorry. Internet is a douch bag

I'm sorry. Internet is a douch bag

This is where I left off:

Micah: beyond the pain of sleepless chicken hazy dreams
me: like chicken feet
after a hard day of workin
Micah did not receive your chat.
me: making chicken yarn
working down on the farm
dreams of chicken times to come
Micah did not receive your chat.
me: I'm sorry. Internet is a douch bag
I'm sorry. Internet is a douch bag

11:26 AM The point is, in chicken kingdom come

hard and fast chicken and moose get it on

11:27 AM all don juan chicken on

hot moose flank

Micah: brb

11:28 AM me: chicken tea

11:29 AM Micah

I'm leaving you

I'm sorry, it has to be this way

you see.

I have Japanese homework to do

Yes, I'm seeing another language

I'm sorry

11:30 AM No, I meant all that that just happened between us. THe rhyming. The alliteration. That was from the heart

but it's over now.. I'm with nihongo

watashi wa, macu desu. watasi wa, pasocon desu.

I finally caught them..

addendum: I guess I should explain, this is a photo that I caught while watching tv in a salary-man hotel of the Japanese version of the 'Hi I'm a Mac. Hi, I'm a PC' ads. They're a little strange because it's kind of hard to tell the two guys apart. Crazy Japanese!

Four Pictures of a New Temple in Tamana

Unparticle Stuff

Man, physics is the best. It's the only field where the people who make the most sense are simultaneously those who make the least. You crazy guys.

"Georgi says that, in his opinion, unparticle stuff would be a more striking discovery than supersymmetry or extra dimensions, both of which point to just more new particles."

Yeah, stupid boring new particles, nobody cares about you anymore.

They really are friendly

The Delicious, Half Eaten

Okonomiyaki-mura

Hiroshima is famous for its special okonomiyaki that includes either udon or soba, in addition to all the normal. Right now I`m eating in Okonomiyaki-mura, a four story building devoted solely to the delicious art of noodle/pancake combination.

addendum

You`re off the hook for now, Japan ..no more funny business ((-.-)zzZ3

40 yen dinner

This is what a 40 yen dinner looks like. Colorful, yes, but still, Japanese atms, I hate you so god damn much. I wish I could hate you so much that you died. What is with the most technologically advanced country in the world being backwards ludtes about credit cards/cash cards/atms? Why can I not walk into a restaurant and access one of my clandestine money hordes remotely (as if by magic！) in exchange for life giving food? srsly >_<

Cradle of Japanese Civilization

Lake Shinji

Lafacidio Hearn

I went to the house of Lafacidio Hearn (aka the patron saint of gaijin), and then had soba with raw quail egg.

Matsue-jo

Matsue-jo is one of only a handful of original Japanese castles still standing. all wood, and very pretty.

Matsue-jo

Onoes！

It`s the A-bomb dome.

to Hiroshima

Man, I love riding the Shinky. It`s so hypnotizing.

My Lord, cigarette in a bottle? That is it, this whole damn country is back on notice.

Ah, the exciting life of we who try new things in Japan. For those of you out there who aren't blessed with the nihongo, the third ingredient listed in this here vitamin drink is 20mg of nicotine (nicotine something something, actually, I don't know what that kanji means).

Needless to say, this bottle of toxic yellow loveliness took the express train from vending machine town to dumpster city, with only a brief stop in the little hamlet of 'oh god, what am I drinking.'

Why, Japan? (;_;)

On our way to Oita, there was an incident

Over which Kijima-sensei held court

about which Kida was unconcerned

..and reinforcements arrived

Culprit, adorably so

And then we all stood around..

Being bored

Bored

Hangai seemed to find it all amusing

Though I am afraid that Azioka did not

Dios mia! El Policia, do not let them catch me, for I will be sent back to the devil's land, America!

'ahem ..ladies'

'Oh, you know, just writing about it all in my journal.'

Man, this guy's boots are so awesome

Oh Architecture, it's just you and me forevar baby

You know I ain't never leave you

Everyone in Japan loves the purikura.

I've been putting together a cover graphic for the new Nippon Fulbright Fellows Handbook, a compilation of all of our purikura photos from the year. This one of Jukie and I is choice, and I've also uploaded the whole thing. Thus, you may bear witness to the sort with whom I am associating these days.