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…but it’s better than drinking alone.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

which is still actually better than a lot of things, IMHO.

 

This is in one of the bars along the Takasegawa as it runs between Shijo and Gojo.  Oh, man, if THOSE walls could talk.


“I keep having this recurring* dream, Dr Fleud…

Friday, January 21st, 2011

cute japanese college girl with really big white daikon

…and it’s in English, which even though I’ve studied for like ever, I don’t know what it’s saying…and I’m out at school and all my classmate boys are behind me and so small…and I’m holding this gigantic tuber, and it’s long, and hard, and white…”

(This poster hangs in many a JR train along the Kyoto / Kobe line.  It is recruiting (?) for a decent University in the hils of Kyoto, which has the rep of paying its gaijin teachers the most of all the area universities & colleges.  The theme of the ad, as best I can make out, is power (chikara).  Meaning…?  Campaign angle…?  Increased enrollment or just blood flow…???

Smart readers are what we get here at japandemic, and smart readers, much better than they can be lectured to, can figure out things for themselves, so that is what I shall let you do.

* Yes, as a bona fide college instructor myself, I’m aware “keep having” and “recurring” are redundant, but come on, English isn’t her first language…so we cut her big slack.