Oh wow, I am still alive. Yes, this last month has gone by at sonic speeds. The weekdays are full of school, and the weekends have been jam packed. So why not throw a whole bunch of pictures at you? Sure, sounds good to me. Enjoy....



I hate cute rabbits. Taken at the Tokyo Museam of Modern Art. So postmodern it hurts. Okay okay, I just wanted to use the word postmodern. Because I am pretencious. Moving right along...









The end of an era. I was lucky enough to catch this guy losing his bachlor card. Poor guy, I mean seriously, this girl has horrible taste in hats and he is still going for it. More power to you bro.







Note the sheer composite that this situation represents. You have an ancient temple/shrine whatever, and semi-religous relics are availible for purchase through this shrine maiden, obviously a serious, time honored tradition that has not changed for hundreds of years. Until she whiped out the Dell flat screen and fired up Windows or Linux to process my order. So much for tradition. At least she looks the part.








School Time! The festival at Koga 1st High School resulted in me going into each classroom and well.. acting like an idiot. So this of course resulted in a lot of fun. School girls love pictures on their camera phones. They took some. I took some. Everyone was happy.









More school girls. I actually took this picture a while ago, but I taught their class today. I sang the Fugees "Killing Me Softly" while they filled in the words. This is my job. They give me money to do this.











Taken at the Festival again. I was taking pictures of the randomness, and of course the girls spotted me. Obligitory school girls shot. Promise its the last one.





This dude was the acting pimp in the bar the kids set up. He basically acted like a ganster the whole time. He of course is a cool kid, so I posed with him at the crazy festival. That or he would beat me up. I ask no questions.














Okay, it's no secret that I love anime and manga. Behold Eva Volume 10 and Bersek volume 31. Bask in it's all powerful and ephermieral glow. I made up a word yes, but how can one not when faced with such powerful dorkdom. All those who covet these things, kneel before me, I am your new dork master. MUHAHAHAHA






I asked kids to write me questions. This is from one of the girls. I have no words. Enjoy.
















At least the kid is up to date on his world news.























Stole this kid's school uniform top after Judo practice, or should I call it "Young kids throwing Rick around like a bitch" practice. I think I could blend in...





This is an Udon shop right where you wait for the train. I mean, literally right where you wait for it. Not outside the station, but like, 4 feet from the train. I love it. I ate there. Good stuff.















Tsuchiura Fireworks show. Easily the greatest fireworks of my life, and I missed half the show too. It was amazing. My camera takes crappy shots, but please enjoy this.



More boom










Tokyo, Toyosu, the "Urban Dock" Super Mall. It's huge. I mean, huge. It had a cocert area, a place to a ferry, three floors and hundreds of stores. I am not sure, but I think it is one of the if not the biggest mall in the world. All hail consumerizim in it's puritanic form. All hail my inability to spell.










All hail Urban Dock. It is not even finished, and people come and buy things. I was one. Nice place though.























Inside the core of Urban Dock is a giant store of Gundam toy robots. I of course love Gundam. There was a 3 meter tall Gundam in there. I almost did not leave. I mean, I was escorted out, granted, after hugging the giant Gundam in my underware, but I mean, things happen. Moving right along...



So yes, Dinosaur Jr. is a kick ass band that recently got back together. They are pretty much rock gods, and I saw them in concert. I saw this kid with this shirt from their tour and almost acosted him. He then told me that he had no idea it was a band. Turns out fake, copied Dinosaur Jr. shirts are all the rage, I saw about 5 more the next day. I then did acoste him. Note his looking towards the floor. He is wwatching as I kick him in the nuts for disrespecting the band. Oh well. Sorry folks, put the kids to bed, I said nuts.















I have figured out why the birthrate in Japan is declining. It's easy to figure out when looking at these guys. Please analyse these young gentlemen, who are most likely High School seniors. No car, they have white matching mopeds, with helmets that compliment eachother. They have flowered licease plates. They have flowers adorn on the front of their kick ass rides. Imagine now you are a cute young Japanese girl and these guys roll up hitting on you. If you don't die from laughter I am assuming you just tell them to get lost. It all makes sense now.



So here we are at Nikko, a beautiful World Heritage site with some other JETs. We are all pretty badass if you could not tell. As you can also see, my abs have become so awesome they actually produce their own light source.



Dan and I posing in front of the most ornate gate in everdom. The other guy has a name, but I forget it. He is background boy. You know, that guy who is in your group but no one really cares about. He is there, looking confused, and of course no one cares. Which is fine. I think we may have left him there. Oh well, I'm in the picture, and that is the important thing.




A blurry picture of the largest club in Asia from the inside. The name of the place was "Ageha." It was freaking huge and we went for a Halloween party. I wasa cowboy. I danced with many a fine woman that night. Of course it was all thanks to my friends face abscuring darkness and alcohal, who have been helping me aproach women since college. Right, at least that wasn't awkward... moving right along...






Ah yes, Kyoto, a crazy trip if there ever was one. This was last weekend. This is at a temple er... Gin something or other. Very beautiul. See that kind of stripey, diagonal gray on the ground? Thats a rock garden; all that is sand that is raked everyday. Beautiful. I would hate to be the dude who has to do that though. What a crappy job. Well, I am glad he does it, he makes my pictures look great.















Why not end this with a stoic picture of yours truly? Me under a Kitsune (Fox) statue looking into the distance, obviously thinking things very important. You know like, "When the hell am I going to cut my hair? I look like a dirty hippy..."

Anyways, I hope you enjoy. If there is a place you think looked in particularly cool, let me know and I'll post more from it. This is more like a popori. Or Popouri. Or err... whatever, you can read it phonically. Thats what this is.

But seriously, things are great. Sorry I've been inconsitent, it's tough lately. I'd love to say I will post more consistantly, but this is a lie, I am still super busy. But when get time, I will through up more stuff for you. Hope you are all well.

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