Bambi-san Loose in Miyajima Pt I

"Attention: The deer in Miyajima are wild. They may eat paper and cloth. Please pay attention and keep an eye on your personal belongings - especially tickets and souvenirs as the deer might eat them."

Duh.

Bambi-san Loose in Miyajima Pt II:

"Walt'll never miss me."

01/22/07. 17:35 Takasaki, Dusk

A Sure Thing?

Need a winning pony in the fifth? no problem. Say your alms, rub the palid equine's ghost snout, stare into its blood pool eyes, and collect . . .

. . . and go straight to hell!!

Photography for Idiots

Yes, now you too can take scenic, majestic pictures like this. Easy. Here's how:
Come to Japan!!!!!!!!!!!

In Japan--Dog Is God.

Thunder in Eden? Not Quite

At a local fire house, Sick helps the men mash some moshi, a local Japanese New Year rice dessert.

The Most "Loose" City in Japan . . . Let's Go!

In Osaka, the chocolate cakes are pretty good, as this candy box wrapper proclaims; however, I can't say the same for the prefecture's notorious virtue.

Coke, Please! Undies, Too.

After a 15 mile bicycle ride, there's nothing more rewarding than a bottle of Coke and a fresh pair of panties.

Just another day at the vendies.

Hiroshima's Atomic Dome

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Not Quite Coppertone

Here's a local Kyota okonomiyaki restaurant--that's a large pancake with seafood, meat , egg and veggies, guys.

Let's see who sues who first.

The Next Best Thing To A Giant

Oh, God . . . that frame, those lines, the precision . . .

. . .oh, she was sleek poetry in my quivering hands.

So sweet,

Oh, so nice . . .

Four "Kyoto Style" Girls

The First FIFA?

At a Kyoto temple, revered ol' timers play what appears to be an early form of soccer. Rules: A player can kick the ball up to three times only using his right leg, of which he cannot bend. Just like World Cup, the place was packed to capacity. Alas, no head-butts to the chest.

Dammit.

"Kind Captain, I've Got Useless Information..."

The classic gear jammin', truckin' movie "Smokey and the Bandit," is affectionatly known as "Trans-Am 7000."

Licence to Repose: Kinkaku-ji Temple

Kyoto, "the prefecture with the golden temple."

Snow Falling in Hiroshima

Lovin' the jacket more and more, Pops.

Memoirs of a Maiko

Gion. Future geishas -to- be just before an intensive English lesson with Eden-sensei.

Just Follow the Arrows

Sick in Eden, the sixth renegade Power Ranger, on the town with his boyz.

Hiroshima's Floating Torrii

Miyajima Shrine, one of Japans's three best views, quoth Lonley Planet.

Hai.

008 1/2 : "Eden. Sick in Eden."

The best foreign flick now showing in Japan.

Seriously.

Sake, Weib, and Gesang

A "Rum Raisin" killing time during intermission at Takasaki's Strauss New Year's Day Concert.

Love Hotels, Revisited

Hotel Besse, a sexual haven for your "meek and huddled masses" yearning to . . . well, . . . you know the rest.

Italian/Japanese Restaurant Hopping, So Post-Modern , Baby

1. Fresh Crab Tomato Pasta

2. Seafood Pizza

3. Assorted Sushi

There are many restaurants at the fish market all promising the freshest fish possible all for under 20 bucks!

Moonlighting in Eden

After helping a a local vendor close shop at the fish market, we gladly ham it up for the cameras.

"Ya C'll Tha 'ah Knife?": Tools of the Trade at the Fish Market

Tokyo Fish Market--Serving Good Head Daily