Was talking to my neighborhood friend who is the same height as my younger son & just as genki at 86 about her pet turtle when this random lady bends down to her & sorta shouts お・ば・あ・さ・ん・だ・い・じょ・う・ぶ・で・す・か and she was like wut & I laughed cuz this was even worse than the way ppl talk to me sometimes 😂

狛犬 is all ready to see your Bahama Mama

Ok this is the year I really learn the bon odori moves as I am not getting any younger but all the choreography at once will confuse me so I’m starting with that “Tokyo, Tokyo~” one and of course the Skytree dance.

I accidentally told a cab driver to turn down 曳舟通り instead of 曳舟川通り & earned myself a lecture on how it used to be a canal between Arakawa & the Sumida & the water under 曳舟橋was too shallow so u had to pull the boats through hence the name ＆　normal ppl don’t know this but he is Edokko so yeah. 10/10

the allure of the hawk

Hello New York winter ah yes hi this is Tokyo summer calling about the 8:20am sunrises. We need them. Give them to us.

Is it weird that I want to round up all my neighborhood octogenarian friends and put them in my tatami room with the aircon on full blast and a box of お〜いお茶 for safe keeping?

You read the news again, didn’t you.

Goddamn men just keep thinking up new ways to be creepy…

Season 14.5: laundry 🧺 !

a dream within a dream

Today’s もったいない ゲットs were a lot heavier and harder to move along the sidewalk than I had initially imagined (especially with bicycles flying at us from all directions) but we’ve safely arrived at our new forever home now to be reincarnated as spinning bumper cars. Obviously 😜

floating in color

I see you.

Child: Look mom, a 2-headed dragonfly! Me: そっか

PSA: this is good

Ok I may be biased because I’d only just escaped The Melting when it came into view, but is this cooling mist display at the entrance to my local Muji not somehow beautiful?

Good morning Japan! This water lily would like to remind you that Mecca lies southwest of Shinjuku.

I can’t take this timeline so I’ll post something pretty that I hope might make everything less awful for 5 seconds this was last night.

this was somehow real

So I got new glasses which means I can see way too well which means I’ll be cleaning 4 the foreseeable future so I’m listening 2 The Housemaid while I do & we’d better be going somewhere with this gardener cuz an off the boat Italian landscaper on Long Island is about as likely as non-kosher bagels.

I caught a dragonfly for a split second and then let it go.

J to E translation quiz, wrong answers only!

Iriya Morning Glory Festival にて 目に優しいお兄さん, seeing I am already carrying a plant: もう一個だったら？ Me: それはそれは Him: Wow, 日本語ぜんぜん喋るね! Me: ✨うん✨✌️ Epilogue: Stepping back to observe, I realize that pretty boy is exclusively targeting all passing おばさんs Moral: who cares I’m officially a Japanese おばさん now 🎉

Ok which one of us has been smuggling あやしい shit over the gates of Mikawashima station?

That feeling when you realize that @paularcurtis.bsky.social must have passed through your neighborhood recently, and she didn’t even call…

七 vs 夕

My tanabata wish for you is that you go to kappabashi doori and see these crazy colors for yourself before tomorrow ends.

Make a wish fast, before these too become colorless as a Calbee bag of chips.

another white person just sat down way too close to me on the only remaining seat on the bus. this is way too awkward plz send help.

ひとりぼっち

Do you want to talk about what happened?

wayward lotus conducts symphony

Sounds “OSOROSHII”

There was this packed event at The Railway Museum today where visitors sat down in a retro Shinkansen model and someone dressed as a conductor moved down the row punching people’s tickets to their great excitement and it was just like we were in olden times or on the Long Island Railroad.

Send. Help.

Resurrection

the bridge wears diamonds

I woke up this morning and recalled this silly graphic I once made because we have now unmistakably entered season 14.

crossing the abyss

Nothing says senzoku 4 like your favorite sento needing to clarify that it is a regular bath 😂

もう”kaizen“できん

holding up the moon

With special thanks to all the hot glue, someone else’s 粗大ゴミ, a sick kid keeping me home, and a husband who won’t care that I didn’t clean the house, my Makeshift Lego Table Dream Lives!!!

久しぶりの rail porn

what the raindrop saw

I finished reading Butter last night cuz @mortabasi.bsky.social said I’d like it and I did but wow roasting a turkey is really complicated and never having actually adulted in gaikoku I’m kinda impressed that my people know how to do this.

Real talk I’ve been thinking about this poor guy all weekend.

An app wants me to mark myself safe, but I don’t know what from anymore. Besides, seeing as we’ll be home all day, the only pair of typhoons I’d ever need to mark myself safe from are my own children.