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I am in Tokyo, where I have not been in a long time, and I have spent far, far too much money buying doujinshi. Years of careful restraint went out the window in a single weekend. It's entirely possible that I doubled my collection, I'm not 100% sure.
Tokyo has been great fun, too. I managed to tour the grounds of the Imperial Palace, visited a couple of doujin stores, had ice cream, ate at a Japanese vegan restaurant, asked a somewhat bemused porn-pusher for directions to the 7-11, and went to Nekobukuro. Nekobukuro is a place where you pay them 600 yen and you get to come in and pet their cats for as long as you like. I also took a ton of pictures of the Thunder Gate and felt hugely nostalgic because I once wrote a paper on a Hiroshige print depicting it (and won money for it, too!).
There were several great conversations, too, some real, some in my head. Examples:
(talking about the toilets on the trains in China)
me: Actually it was kind of exciting, because the toilet was just a hole in the train. You could watch the ground passing by between your feet.
misspaulette: That would scare the crap out of me.
me: ::dies::
misspaulette: And then there was a picture, and it said, "would Meatloaf do That for a Klondike bar?"
The Strange: But what would a Klondike bar do for Meatloaf?
me: ::visualizes a picture of a meatloaf. visualizes a Klondike bar. wonders what meatloaf would do for a Klondike bar, taste-wise. wonders what a Klondike bar would do for meatloaf, taste-wise. thinks that sweet and salty go well together because they contrast, but has never heard of those two getting paired up. realizes that Meatloaf is a person and visualizes him holding a Klondike bar. wonders what Meatloaf could possibly do for a Klondike bar. remembers the lyrics of an infamous Meatloaf song::
me: ::three minutes later in the conversation:: OH! I GET IT!
(wandering during Super Comic City and talking with Band AU Ryuuki in my head)
Ryuuki: ::randomly:: I want a nipple ring!
me: wha-- NO!
Ryuuki: Well, how about a bellybutton piercing?
me: gods no.
Ryuuki: Eyebrow?
me: no no nooooooo.
Ryuuki: Come on, you like piercings!
me: That's why you can't have one!
Ryuuki: Please? I bet Shuurei would like it too . . .
me: ::runs away::
Hilariously, while wandering the homemade goods section of Comic City, I bought myself an overpriced black armband with a print of a butterfly in a cage on it. Which means that I now own hypothetical merchandise for a Visual K band that ONLY EXISTS IN MY HEAD.
Oh, and technically Band AU Ryuuki has several ear piercings already.
And my fellow tourists are annoying, so I'm going to bed.
Tokyo has been great fun, too. I managed to tour the grounds of the Imperial Palace, visited a couple of doujin stores, had ice cream, ate at a Japanese vegan restaurant, asked a somewhat bemused porn-pusher for directions to the 7-11, and went to Nekobukuro. Nekobukuro is a place where you pay them 600 yen and you get to come in and pet their cats for as long as you like. I also took a ton of pictures of the Thunder Gate and felt hugely nostalgic because I once wrote a paper on a Hiroshige print depicting it (and won money for it, too!).
There were several great conversations, too, some real, some in my head. Examples:
(talking about the toilets on the trains in China)
me: Actually it was kind of exciting, because the toilet was just a hole in the train. You could watch the ground passing by between your feet.
misspaulette: That would scare the crap out of me.
me: ::dies::
misspaulette: And then there was a picture, and it said, "would Meatloaf do That for a Klondike bar?"
The Strange: But what would a Klondike bar do for Meatloaf?
me: ::visualizes a picture of a meatloaf. visualizes a Klondike bar. wonders what meatloaf would do for a Klondike bar, taste-wise. wonders what a Klondike bar would do for meatloaf, taste-wise. thinks that sweet and salty go well together because they contrast, but has never heard of those two getting paired up. realizes that Meatloaf is a person and visualizes him holding a Klondike bar. wonders what Meatloaf could possibly do for a Klondike bar. remembers the lyrics of an infamous Meatloaf song::
me: ::three minutes later in the conversation:: OH! I GET IT!
(wandering during Super Comic City and talking with Band AU Ryuuki in my head)
Ryuuki: ::randomly:: I want a nipple ring!
me: wha-- NO!
Ryuuki: Well, how about a bellybutton piercing?
me: gods no.
Ryuuki: Eyebrow?
me: no no nooooooo.
Ryuuki: Come on, you like piercings!
me: That's why you can't have one!
Ryuuki: Please? I bet Shuurei would like it too . . .
me: ::runs away::
Hilariously, while wandering the homemade goods section of Comic City, I bought myself an overpriced black armband with a print of a butterfly in a cage on it. Which means that I now own hypothetical merchandise for a Visual K band that ONLY EXISTS IN MY HEAD.
Oh, and technically Band AU Ryuuki has several ear piercings already.
And my fellow tourists are annoying, so I'm going to bed.