Author: Drew

Now, I don’t mind the occasional complement, but this was just weird.

It seems like most every store/ business/ company in Japan has its own mascot character. “Create” (a drug store chain) is no exception. Their mascot, seen around the shop and on seasonal coloring pages kids can do at home and then bring back tithe store to have them displayed, is[…]

After ages of inactivity, I started posting again – and even went 5 days in a row. Then the weekend came and I didn’t write at all. So what happened? Two things. 1. I wasn’t feeling so hot. Not that I was actually sick or anything. I was just tired[…]

They’re very organized. There are days for burnable garbage, unburnable garbage, recyclables – even a special day for corrugated cardboard. But when should you toss out your old gorrilas?

You can use the computer after I’m done. ^.^

I don’t know that anybody other than me ever checks this site anymore (with less than 10 posts in all of 2007, I suspect that everybody considers it dead), but just in case somebody does, I’ll explain. When the iPhone came out in Japan this July I was crazy about[…]

I took this photo a few weeks ago while out for a walk. I have no clue as to what kind of flower it is, but it’s freaky enough that I considered it to be share-worthy.

Yes, it’s rather handy.

(Yeah, I stole this from Kotaku.)

But it turns out it is, after all.