1) Does anyone want to go see Star Trek in IMAX? I saw it once already, but there's an IMAX theater right by me and the movie was boss, so I'd kinda like to see it again, but bigger.

2) Does anyone want to go to Great Adventure sometime soon? I has a roller coaster craving.

Last time we left our heroes, they were really, really jet-lagged.

( Day 2: Harajuku )

So I went to Japan.

I've been holding off from posting more than one-offs because I wanted to talk about the awesomest vacation of my life first, but I'm not sure what to say now! Maybe just that I had a wonderful time with utenatai, fanartist and elhermano, who was as cool as advertised. I'm not sorry I spent all that money and got laid off halfway through--I'm glad, ( Read more... )

Back from Japan and crashing after being up for about 32 hours.

This is what fanartist and I did yesterday. (No, they're not all mine. Shocking, I know.)

You could say I was drowning my sorrows, I suppose, but to be honest I think we would have bought them anyway. The salesladies at Mandarake totally wished they worked on commission.

We met Dougras! He was delightful.

This was not my idea.

But I fully endorsed it once it was suggested.

Anyone who thinks this wish was too frivolous for the shrine should check out some of the other stuff hung up there.

What also rules: running three miles through Ueno Park and then through the streets, watching people coming alive to start the day, and watching the kids heading off to school. (Adding a touch of Vienna Teng:s "Lullabye for a Stormy Night" only improves things.) My favorite was what appeared to be a high school boy on his bike, with his elementary ( Read more... )

...and my body has NO idea what time it is.

Tomorrow I'm headed to California. Saturday we're headed to Japan to meet up with fanartist. SHLDASGHHDJLSAGDKASGDKAJSGD. Sooooo yeah...I won't be around for a bit.