Coffee, Halloween, Jidai Matsuri, Nabe

Finding out that a cafe (insert all-too-brief plug for Kiln here) I regular is open until midnight on Sundays was a pleasant surprise, so I decided to kick back after a long-ish week and put some words on the screen. This city keeps finding ways to impress me and I’ve only barely scraped the surface….

Notebooks, Elysium and more Seijun Suzuki

For the first time in my life, I purchased some notebooks that weren’t very cheap. By no means am I any sort of stationery snob, nor would I ever want to be considered one. The odd thing is, I already have several notebooks in rotation as it is. But they’re full of nonsense and all…

An Abridged Version of Recent Events

A blow-by-blow account of the past few weeks of my life… a week spent in Melbourne with family stand-up comedy in Osaka eating all sorts of stuff that I probably shouldn’t drinking (but not as much as usual) watching Shingeki no Kyojin So I’ll start with something I completed recently – Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan)…

Yuru Kyara Grand Prix – Part 3 of 3

UMMM… is the best I could do for this third entry. The reasons will become apparent as each mascot is unveiled. おぐにん (Ogunin) Trust me when I say that Ogunin is the most palatable of this batch of mascots, it’s not a joke based on the fact that Ogunin is a garlic clove walking around. Apparently,…

Yuru Kyara Grand Prix – Part 2 of 3

 To bring you all up to speed, I spent the last week of September in Melbourne hanging out with family. After the passing of my grandfather, I made plans to travel back to Australia on the quiet so I could spend some quality time with my father and family. If you didn’t see me, or…