Museum of Ridiculous Boring Things
June 08, 2003
Today was the first date like day for Eri and I in a long time. We woke up and had a quick lunch at this Japanese fast food restaurant. They serve mostly beef ricebowls but we ended up having some cold udon dish too. It was the first time I tried it and it was fuggin good. They serve it on a bamboo platter along with a dish with a soysauce/udon soup mixture along with generous amounts of green onion and some ginger. You dip the udon into this soup and then enjoy. It was fuggin hot today, probably hotter than you Vancouverians complaining about your dry, hot weather. Try it with humidity.
We then took a nice subway ride to Tanimachi and went to the Osaka History Museum. From the outside, the place is mindblowingly beautiful. It’s a fabulous work of architecture. Inside, the place was just as nice. It was definitely the newest museum I’ve been to in Japan. There was an impressive view of Osaka Castle on every floor. The content of the museum itself was ok but there wasn’t anything I didn’t see in the Tokyo National Museum a few weeks ago. It was just newer today. They had a sword collection too but katana and tachi are only interesting when you see professionals slice shit up with them. When they’re laying on white cloth behind layers of glass, it’s as interesting as broken glassware. Still, it gave us a reason to get out of the apartment instead of just waste it watching rented movies and variety shows
We got back around 7 and went to this 100 yen kaiten sushi shop. Kaiten means revolving – it’s nothing new to your Vancouverians. The place is quite near my house but I’ve never been there because it looked really small. Boy I wish I had gone earlier. The stuff was really fresh for cheap sushi and the rice was not made by robots and machines like at the other place we usually go. The staff seemed really friendly and wanting to fulfill our every needs. Eri said one dude was constantly asking customers if they were ok or if they wanted some special orders as they weren’t eating much. That’s cool. I took a couple pictures today but then found out the museum was not camera-friendly. Poo on them.
Seems Justin had a harrowing adventure with an arsonist or someone with a grudge. If you want to be careful dude, I’d go drench your yard and bushes with the garden hose for awhile. Get them soaked up with water so that it’d be harder to set on fire later. Or maybe coat it with really toxic chemicals that once burned will form poison clouds, killing everything in its vicinity. Oh yeah, airtight your house first.
I’m still working on stuff around this site. Right now I’m using the same layout for every page but the grand plan will be for each section to have its own unique look. I’m not into the whole uniformity thing.
