I went camping on Deer Island for the ALT Goodbye Party and found a fertility shrine by where the deer sleep. This rock indeed represents what it looks like; the grounds of the shrine were covered in stone penises and vaginas. It made Takashi angry with frustration. "This is so stupid! Why are there so many penises here!?"
Ramen lunch with the Manabes.
These are new. Alcohol vending machines have always been in Japan, but now they have ID scanners, and if you don't have an ID then the camera on the right will scan your face and tell if you are over 20 years old.
I went to Calebs crib last night and we watched Miike Takashi's film Visitor Q (2001), which blew me away. have you ever seen any of his films? Miike also made Audition.
Here are the deer with their fake friends in front of the fertility shrine.
And here I am walking by the water in my fundoshi.
with Murphy's Law.
On my friend Junya's dash the tantric buddhist vajra bell representing the primordial union of the masculine and feminine energies, ascending and decending paths, emptiness and form, and heaven and earth...nondual reality being punched by a character from One Piece, and anime which is really hot right now in Japan.
And what is really hot in Niihama right now is the Hand, foot, and mouth disease which I somehow caught last week. Red spots appeared all over my palms and the soles of my feet after a day of fevor and headaches. no problem though...it goes away in a few days.
2 comments:
omg, mya, email your mom.
Eek! Wish I would have seen this earlier...I could have told you benadryl helps if you have the mouth sores. Coco got that last year and it was the worst week ever. I think it is less severe in adults? Hope you're feeling better.
-Mandy
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