tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2691895
BTW FYI SOS
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Toby has a renewed desire to finish writing up and posting our Japan travel blog since it's been a year. XD Be aware you might get posts raving about our time in Kyoto or whatever--yup, that was from a year ago, not now.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2691895" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2601965
telophase @ 2015-05-23T18:28:00
2015-05-23T23:30:23Z
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Taking a quick break from painting to post this picture. It's a bird, but one I shot (with a camera!) in Japan this winter.<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://telophase.dreamwidth.org/2601965.html#cutid1">pretty damn nice photo, if I do say so myself</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2601965" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2561302
Jet lag and Oji Inari Shrine
2015-01-17T05:38:04Z
2015-01-17T05:41:03Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/jet-lag-and-oji-inari-shrine/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>Still jet lagged; when we got home yesterday at 2PM or so, Toby managed to stay awake until 10PMish, while I crashed at 4, got up to eat dinner, crashed again, then got up to watch Toby play Assassin’s Creed for a while, then crashed when Toby went to bed. Toby got up about 6AM, while I got up at 8, then we both fell asleep at 1PM and got up at 6ish, and are now still awake at 11PM. So: yeah.</p>
<p>Anyway, a little about the final shrine of our journey. I found out about the Oji Inari shrine when Googling about for things to do. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inari_%C5%8Ckami">Inari</a> is the god of rice, agriculture, sake, business, and a few other things in Shinto, the Japanese traditional religion, and foxes are the messengers of Inari, so while they’re viewed with suspicion as tricksters in many other aspects of Japanese folklore, they are revered at, and act as guardians for, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inari_shrine">Inari shrines</a>.</p>
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2560816
Yay
2015-01-15T14:53:31Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/yay/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>Flight at 9:54; the 9:09 time printed in the boarding passes is actually boarding time. It’s now 8:53 and we’re sitting at the gate waiting.</p>
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2560601
Arg
2015-01-15T12:14:47Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/arg/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>Our plane is a little under an hour late to Chicago at the moment, which means instead of a decent 2-hour layover, we get a 1-hour layover to collect our bags, go through Customs, and get to our next flight, one terminal over.</p>
<p>Something tells me we’re probably not making it. Bah.</p>
<p>Sent from my Apple ][+</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2560601" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2560271
Security at Narita
2015-01-15T04:44:15Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/security-at-narita/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Toby.<p>- no requirement to take off your shoes<br />
– no one yelling instructions to everyone in line like we’re a group of distracted fourth graders<br />
– and when my belt set off the metal detector, the guy patting me down didn’t feel the need to touch my balls</p>
<p>Compared to the US, it’s civilized.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2560271" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2560063
Always, on takeoff
2015-01-15T03:10:00Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/always-on-takeoff/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Toby.<p>When the captain kicks it in the ass on the runway, I flash back to the Viper launch sequence from Battlestar Galactica.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2560063" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2559909
Waiting…
2015-01-15T01:13:04Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/waiting/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>Our tickets get us access to the Sakura Lounge at Narita Airport before our flight. Taking advantage of the power points and the free wifi to top up our devices while farting about on the intertubes. One hour before we take off for home!</p>
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2559638
Heh
2015-01-14T11:14:15Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/heh/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>Guy standing next to is waiting for the train is doing Tai Chi. I think he’s drunk.</p>
<p>Sent from my TRS-80</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2559638" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2559449
Note to Self
2015-01-14T11:03:42Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/note-to-self-2/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Toby.<p>The various Japanese people carrying large long luggage around the station are lugging instruments, not katana.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2559449" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2559149
Escalator etiquette
2015-01-14T10:15:48Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/escalator-etiquette/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>I knew from my previous trip to Japan that you stand on the left side of the escalator, leaving the right side free for people who want to walk up. Except for Osaka, in which the standing and walking sides are flipped, which leads to rousing games of Spot the Osakan in Tokyo Station and elsewhere.</p>
<p>I also engage in another game when on the escalator, this one titled I’m Not With Those Asshole Gaijin Blocking The Entire Escalator.</p>
<p>Something I hadn’t noticed about Japanese escalator etiquette on my previous trip is one person = one stair. I have only seen one Japanese (I assume) person standing with one foot on the step in front of them, which is common in the USA,</p>
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2558826
At a German restaurant in Daimaru
2015-01-14T10:09:40Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/at-a-german-restaurant-in-daimaru/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Toby.<p>Having 500ml (essentially a US pint) of Erdinger Weissbrau (hefe). Tasty!</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2558826" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2558515
Japan: Still largely a cash economy
2015-01-14T06:31:00Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/japan-still-largely-a-cash-economy/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Toby.<p>Japan Post clerk’s reply when I tried to use my credit card to pay to send our souvenirs home:</p>
<p>“No. Money.” (said with a smile)</p>
<p>I apologized, walked 20′ to the ATM, got some cash, and paid the man.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2558515" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2558389
Unwritten Rule
2015-01-14T05:29:14Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/unwritten-rule/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Toby.<p>Seems like a Japanese woman’s skirt is not allowed to be longer than her coat.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2558389" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2557964
Huh
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/huh/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>At fox shrine in Oji, Tokyo. Apparently holes into the hill are a fox shrine thing.</p><br /><p>(At Oji Inari Shrine.)</p><br /><p>Sent from my TRS-80</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2557964" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2557717
Tokyo Photo Tour: Toby’s Take
2015-01-13T09:47:43Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/tokyo-photo-tour-tobys-take/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Toby.<p>Despite not being much of a photographer, I accompanied Stephanie on the tour a few days back. It was still pretty fun, even if occasionally our guide tried to direct my photo taking attention in some direction, only for me to find little inspiration that way.</p>
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2557623
Baumkuchen
2015-01-13T07:46:47Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/baumkuchen/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>Some of you may remember a couple of months ago, when I was looking for cake recipes for Thanksgiving. I discovered the existence of Baumkuchen then, a cake traditionally cooked on a spit, where you coat it with layers of batter so you end up, when you remove the spit, with a cylindrical cake composed of layers of cake like tree rings.</p>
<p>I had never heard of it before…and it turns out it’s a very popular thing in Japan.<br />
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2557380
Visited the Japanese Sword Museum
2015-01-13T05:06:34Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/visited-the-japanese-sword-museum/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Toby.<p>They have a Masamune.</p>
<p>Fucking. Awesome.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2557380" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2557091
After going up some stairs at the station
2015-01-13T02:11:49Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/after-going-up-some-stairs-at-the-station/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Toby.<p>Stephanie: “Two more days of this, then I can sit on my ass and drive around like God intended.”</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2557091" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2556786
Akihabara
2015-01-12T13:36:04Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/akihabara/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>We wandered around part of Akihabara today. That’s the nerd/geek/gamer Mecca district of Tokyo, full of electronics stores, arcades, maid cafés, and every fannish thing under the sun.</p>
<p>(Speaking of maid cafés, the girls out on the streets in their frilly uniforms shilling for their cafés looked so cold and unhappy! They had coats and scarves on over their uniforms, but most of them had short skirts and thin stockings on in the Arctic winds. We felt so sorry for them!)</p>
<p>At one point we stopped for Toby to check his phone for the map to the gachapon store we were heading for, and I looked up to see the sun hitting these buildings in a nice way, and snapped a picture with my phone.<br />
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2556468
YOUR ARGUMENT IS STILL INVALID
2015-01-12T11:21:00Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/your-argument-is-still-invalid/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID…I HAVE A PAIR OF HATTIFATTENER TONGS.</p>
<p><a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0388.jpg"><img src="http://travel.mushtee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0388.jpg" alt="IMG_0388.JPG" class="alignnone size-full" /></a></p>
<p>I also have a plushie Too-Ticky, which is totally awesome.</p>
<p><a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0389.jpg"><img src="http://travel.mushtee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0389.jpg" alt="IMG_0389.JPG" class="alignnone size-full" /></a><br />
Yes, I went all the way to Japan and bought a bunch of Finnish childrens’ book swag, but I am quite pleased at how popular the Moomins are over here. We happened upon the Moomin Mini shop in a Tokyo Station and of course I had to stop.</p>
<p>I could have got a bag of pasta shaped like Moomin characters, but I’m not sure we could have got it through Customs.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2556468" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2556396
The Force is strong with this one…
2015-01-12T06:37:40Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/the-force-is-strong-with-this-one/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>We keep running into Star Wars stuff as we travel. There are two especially cool things I want to tell you about, though.</p>
<p>Near our hotel is a historic doll maker that mostly makes traditional collectible dolls. And some collectible dolls that are not so traditional. I give you the Dark Side Samurai displays: <a href="http://www.yoshitoku.co.jp/list/10/">http://www.yoshitoku.co.jp/list/10/</a></p>
<p>Those are awesome but, as you can tell from the prices (118 yen/dollar at the moment), not exactly in our impulse purchase price range.</p>
<p>Today, in a store in Akihabara, I spotted the <a href="http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOGDS-120421">Samurai Taisho Darth Vader</a>. Now that’s a bit more affordable! Alas, the places I’ve checked online are either out or selling them at a markup I’m not willing to pay.</p>
<p>Bah.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2556396" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2556040
COPS
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/cops/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>We’re watching the Japanese version of COPS at the moment, and the segment that just aired consisted of pulling a guy over because he had a headlight out, then searching the trunk and finding a kitchen knife, then administering a breathalyzer test and finding the guy was over the legal limit.</p>
<p>And now they’ve pulled a guy over who has a load of vegetables in his passenger seat. Apparently this is suspicious. He’s just led them to a cornfield. The officers are now stuffing ears of corn in an evidence bag. Oh, I think they just busted him for stealing corn from the field.</p>
<p>Man, they claimed Japan was safe. I’m afraid to step out of the hotel now.</p>
<p>Sent from my TRS-80</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2556040" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2555726
Your argument is invalid
2015-01-11T10:53:22Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/your-argument-is-invalid/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Stephanie.<p>Your argument is invalid; I have Snufkin socks.</p>
<p><a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0378.jpg"><img src="http://travel.mushtee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0378.jpg" alt="IMG_0378.JPG" class="alignnone size-full" /></a></p>
<p>Because Snufkin. (If you are unaware of The Moomins, then I am sorry for you and your deprived childhood.)</p>
<p>On the back, just above the heel, is either The Mymble’s Daughter or Little My. I’m inclined towards the former because she looks pleasanter than Little My tends to be.</p>
<p><a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0379.jpg"><img src="http://travel.mushtee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0379.jpg" alt="IMG_0379.JPG" class="alignnone size-full" /></a></p>
<p>Edit: I forgot to add this–the little toe clip holding the socks together had a Hattifattener on it!!</p>
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:99252:2555558
Pacific Rim: The Unboxening
2015-01-11T08:04:07Z
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Crossposted from <a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/2015/01/pacific-rim-the-unboxening/">Glamorous in Retrospect</a>. Author: Toby.<p>As Stephanie said, I picked up a Pacific Rim gachapon for myself, because hell yes I did. What did I get? Well here’s the orb, unopened:</p>
<p><a href="http://travel.mushtee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0166.jpg"><img src="http://travel.mushtee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0166.jpg" alt="IMG_0166.JPG" class="alignnone size-full" /></a></p>
<p>And opened and assembled:</p>
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<p>Yep, Gipsy Danger! The machine said it was vending toys from Vol. 1 of the PR set. From the manual inside, looks like other possibilities are:</p>
<p>– Gipsy Danger, with sword<br />
– Cherno Alpha<br />
– Crimson Typhoon<br />
– Coyote Tango<br />
– Striker Eureka<br />
– Knifehead<br />
– Leatherback</p>
<p>…or pretty much what you see in the film. I need to dig up some more info, because if Vol. 2 includes Tacit Ronin, I’ll have to track it down.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=telophase&ditemid=2555558" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments