So it's a bird fetus, with Diamonds for eyes? Yes.
Welcome to the DalaranJ multimedia extravaganza!
First by no means should you go to this site, or buy anything from this woman. I'm not being sarcastic, seriously.
http://www.juliadeville.com/
Nextly, please enjoy this project type work of my good friend David Needham featuring a delightful commercial written and acted by myself and a certain Jon Davidson. If you want to find out which Jon Davidson you'll have to read the book, *reading rainbow noise*. By which I mean download the audio project.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P2F24VST
Thricely, I'm quite sure I haven't been evangelistic enough about my love of this webcomic. Alright, I know no one actually ever starts reading new web comics, but I'm doing it anyway.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20050221
And to preemptively answer the question you won't have, yes, it IS those Foglios who write it.
Endingly, please enjoy these annotated and very many pictures of my trip to Japan. (Warning, full size pictures.)
Chris' elementary and jr. high where he teaches. I'm not sure which is which, ask him.
I don't remember why I took this one. This is an area up the hill (the hill being in the picture...) of Chris' house. Also, tangerine tree or something. Hooray.
I don't understand the stoplights! They are wrong ways about! The activity of travel in Japan was fun and filled with amazing new things to discover. Example: You may notice the mirrors at the intersection, this is because the walls so high on the T-junction side that you need them in order to make a turn. EVERY INTERSECTION IN CHRIS' TOWN WAS LIKE THIS.
Speaking of things that happen everywhere in Japan, vending machines! If you didn't see a soda/sports drink vending machine on the block you were on that was because it had a cigarette vending machine, or an ice cream vending machine, or a ramen noodle cup vending machine.
This is some money. It has people that are unidentifiable on it. Me: "Emperors?" Chris: "Nope."
It is vital for me to prove to you that Chris' famous 'loft' actually exists. Like the elusive bigfoot, no one had ever offered photomographic proof of the fact, until today.
*excitement and joy!* Rice fields! There are totally rice fields in Japan, all the time! Another mundane picture, I guess. It's probably impossible to tell but the rice had recently been planted in this picture.
The traffic was so bad, (How bad was it?) that there were walk over paths over some intersections.
Another obvious one. OSFMG! Islands have palm trees on them!
The department store where Chris buys all of his hats, or something.
We were fearful that this would be our only chance to get a good picture of Cherry trees before I left. We were also wrong.
This is the other ocean from the one I saw before... Why does it look the same as that one?
The bullet train is fast, serves good food, and has plenty of leg room. If it was an airline I would fly on it.
My meal on board the bullet train. I suppose I should have opened my bento up so you could see what was inside. My drink is a sports drink called Pocari Sweat. I don't know what Pocari means... Dave: "Mountain?" Josh: "Old man?"
This is a blurry shot of the bathroom within our hotel room. It was small and made entirely of one type of plastic.
A view of Kyoto from the window of the hotel. The builidings are all very squarish and huddled up together. Chris says this is because of World War 2. World War 2 makes buildings square and close together.
7-11 is also located everywhere. I-holdings is the ATM company that puts their ATMs in 7-11s.
A gate before the Shogun's palace. Regrettably the palace itself disallowed picture taking within. Also, ask me about nightingale floors.
This is some of the Shogun's garden. That's mostly all I got to see from my wheelchair in the pouring rain...
The Shogun's actual living palace is not the same as his meeting palace. The living palace is inside these walls.
This is the outer entrance of the Shogun's palace type environs. I have stolen the soul of that poor woman. Oh, dear.
The hotel room was hilariously small. The TV is on top of the fridge there. The fridge won't open all the way without hitting the bed.
Here are some pictures of the temple of way too many stairs. I didn't get to go to this place for obvious reasons.
Next comes our visit to beautiful Heian Shrine. Their motto is "The shrine Daniel actually went to."
This torii is two blocks away from the shrine and around 100 feet tall. (I think?) The vehicle passing through it there is a bus.
This is the entrance to the shrine.
On the left in the further away picture you can see the cleansing area which is in the picture below.
Here is the area for cleansing before you enter the shrine. You are supposed to wash your' hands with water from the pool gathered in one of those wooden scoops. If you are feeling adventurous you can also cleanse your' mouth by gargling the water.
This shrine is one of the only shrines in the Kyoto area built around a lake.
This is a better picture of a cherry tree.
Experience my photogenicness!
This is the inner area of the shrine. The lake is beyond the building in the back, and the icons are inside said building. (Chris, remind me what Shinto icons are called.)
This is a shot I took closer up to the building. You can see the paper wishes tied onto that small tree.
This is a mall toliet. It had a warm seat. The 'arm' of the toliet was for activating its other amenities which I will leave to your' vivid imagination.
This is a gilded building appropriately known as the golden pavilion.
It has a phoenix on top.
Everybody at the golden pavilion stopped to take a picture of this spring. Presumably it was inhabited by a kami.
Huge Buddhist bell hut.
Finally, I would like to close by saying "curly hair bad, straight hair good".
First by no means should you go to this site, or buy anything from this woman. I'm not being sarcastic, seriously.
http://www.juliadeville.com/
Nextly, please enjoy this project type work of my good friend David Needham featuring a delightful commercial written and acted by myself and a certain Jon Davidson. If you want to find out which Jon Davidson you'll have to read the book, *reading rainbow noise*. By which I mean download the audio project.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P2F24VST
Thricely, I'm quite sure I haven't been evangelistic enough about my love of this webcomic. Alright, I know no one actually ever starts reading new web comics, but I'm doing it anyway.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/gg101.cgi?date=20050221
And to preemptively answer the question you won't have, yes, it IS those Foglios who write it.
Endingly, please enjoy these annotated and very many pictures of my trip to Japan. (Warning, full size pictures.)
Chris' elementary and jr. high where he teaches. I'm not sure which is which, ask him.
I don't remember why I took this one. This is an area up the hill (the hill being in the picture...) of Chris' house. Also, tangerine tree or something. Hooray.
I don't understand the stoplights! They are wrong ways about! The activity of travel in Japan was fun and filled with amazing new things to discover. Example: You may notice the mirrors at the intersection, this is because the walls so high on the T-junction side that you need them in order to make a turn. EVERY INTERSECTION IN CHRIS' TOWN WAS LIKE THIS.
Speaking of things that happen everywhere in Japan, vending machines! If you didn't see a soda/sports drink vending machine on the block you were on that was because it had a cigarette vending machine, or an ice cream vending machine, or a ramen noodle cup vending machine.
This is some money. It has people that are unidentifiable on it. Me: "Emperors?" Chris: "Nope."
It is vital for me to prove to you that Chris' famous 'loft' actually exists. Like the elusive bigfoot, no one had ever offered photomographic proof of the fact, until today.
*excitement and joy!* Rice fields! There are totally rice fields in Japan, all the time! Another mundane picture, I guess. It's probably impossible to tell but the rice had recently been planted in this picture.
The traffic was so bad, (How bad was it?) that there were walk over paths over some intersections.
Another obvious one. OSFMG! Islands have palm trees on them!
The department store where Chris buys all of his hats, or something.
We were fearful that this would be our only chance to get a good picture of Cherry trees before I left. We were also wrong.
This is the other ocean from the one I saw before... Why does it look the same as that one?
The bullet train is fast, serves good food, and has plenty of leg room. If it was an airline I would fly on it.
My meal on board the bullet train. I suppose I should have opened my bento up so you could see what was inside. My drink is a sports drink called Pocari Sweat. I don't know what Pocari means... Dave: "Mountain?" Josh: "Old man?"
This is a blurry shot of the bathroom within our hotel room. It was small and made entirely of one type of plastic.
A view of Kyoto from the window of the hotel. The builidings are all very squarish and huddled up together. Chris says this is because of World War 2. World War 2 makes buildings square and close together.
7-11 is also located everywhere. I-holdings is the ATM company that puts their ATMs in 7-11s.
A gate before the Shogun's palace. Regrettably the palace itself disallowed picture taking within. Also, ask me about nightingale floors.
This is some of the Shogun's garden. That's mostly all I got to see from my wheelchair in the pouring rain...
The Shogun's actual living palace is not the same as his meeting palace. The living palace is inside these walls.
This is the outer entrance of the Shogun's palace type environs. I have stolen the soul of that poor woman. Oh, dear.
The hotel room was hilariously small. The TV is on top of the fridge there. The fridge won't open all the way without hitting the bed.
Here are some pictures of the temple of way too many stairs. I didn't get to go to this place for obvious reasons.
Next comes our visit to beautiful Heian Shrine. Their motto is "The shrine Daniel actually went to."
This torii is two blocks away from the shrine and around 100 feet tall. (I think?) The vehicle passing through it there is a bus.
This is the entrance to the shrine.
On the left in the further away picture you can see the cleansing area which is in the picture below.
Here is the area for cleansing before you enter the shrine. You are supposed to wash your' hands with water from the pool gathered in one of those wooden scoops. If you are feeling adventurous you can also cleanse your' mouth by gargling the water.
This shrine is one of the only shrines in the Kyoto area built around a lake.
This is a better picture of a cherry tree.
Experience my photogenicness!
This is the inner area of the shrine. The lake is beyond the building in the back, and the icons are inside said building. (Chris, remind me what Shinto icons are called.)
This is a shot I took closer up to the building. You can see the paper wishes tied onto that small tree.
This is a mall toliet. It had a warm seat. The 'arm' of the toliet was for activating its other amenities which I will leave to your' vivid imagination.
This is a gilded building appropriately known as the golden pavilion.
It has a phoenix on top.
Everybody at the golden pavilion stopped to take a picture of this spring. Presumably it was inhabited by a kami.
Huge Buddhist bell hut.
Finally, I would like to close by saying "curly hair bad, straight hair good".