Comments | emmling: noteworthy things. maybe.

emmling

noteworthy things. maybe.

Mar 14, 2005 21:14

You know, Nara certainly has an unhealty obsession with fire for a city full of ANCIENT WOODEN BUILDINGS. There was the whole "let's burn down a mountain, yay!" thing in January, and the first two weeks of March are spent waving flaming torches from the balcony of Toudaiji's Nigatsudo, to the delight of the thousands of people watching below ( Read more... )

matsuri, photos, nova, insanity

Comments 7

benefitz March 16 2005, 00:07:04 UTC

Silly old ladies. They should vaccinate against jadedness.

zizz March 16 2005, 06:04:37 UTC

They should vaccinate against jadedness.

and intolerance and stupidity. nice phrase btw.

emmling March 16 2005, 17:15:25 UTC

Indeed.

zizz March 16 2005, 06:08:08 UTC

GOODBYE FRYING PAN, HELLO FIRE.

also nice. or not really nice, but you know...

good for you to persist in heading her off. ouch. it seems rather unfair that experiences that suck to go through often make the best stories. as a post, this is highly amusing. but i feel for ya.

emmling March 16 2005, 17:13:39 UTC

Yeah, the story's hilarious now, but I spent about a day and a half alternately fuming and shaking my head in disbelief.

bad pics anonymous March 17 2005, 01:18:54 UTC

hey emma lee... my pics suck from omizutori. the police came around and were shouting at me and 2 men with our tripods out and ready. "put it away, put your tripods away!!!" as the crowds got bigger, one man left and the other put it out again, this time in a "don't cross this rope" area. not that he could have gotten good pics since there was a big tree in the way. ones i've posted are the non-blurry, public viewable ones.

elaine
www.pbase.com/ginneyl/

Re: bad pics emmling March 17 2005, 02:44:09 UTC

Bad pictures are better than none, at least. I really need to go out this month and get a digital camera, so I can start taking photos again. I miss it.