Igirisu gin

Its been a while since I posted, mostly due to post-alcohol numbness but also a lot to do with boredom.

I needed a quest, and now with the zest of a freshly squeezed lime, I have one. Its started to reinvigour my whole banal existence, instead of mincing around in a general malaise I have a purpose: to do what a million others have done before me, take pictures of silly Japanese things, point and say "freaky! How strange are Japanese people!"

I feel like I'm turning into Chris Tarrant. For those of you not aware of how mind-boggingly stupid, ignorant, middle of the road, and just plain boring this man is take a look at this:


His hobby is fishing. I think you get the idea.

So after buying a ridiculously healthy lunch; cabbage and tomato salad, onigiri and an apple I waded through the hoarded isles of the shopping mall I work in. What luck! A true gem on my first hunt, behold the campest shaving foam I have ever beholden:


"Buy this and look like the Joker!"

" A quick shave, an inch of make up and some botched plastic surgery later, you too can look like me!"

Sweet holy Jimini Crickets Batman who the fuck is going to buy this!

While western men are falling over each other to prove just how big their balls are Japanese men are somewhat different. There's the old stereotype which I see far too often, just the other week I was at the yatai and some 50year old prick was busy giving his paid for girlfriend little slaps on the head whenever he was displeased with something she did, like speaking. Japanese people will call the police if you play your stereo too loud, but they'll quietly ignore some blatant wife beater because they don't want to cause a scene. Hypocracy? The other extreme is the emasculated male, which is every school girls' wet dream I hear. The high school girls' manga comics are filled with these stick thin waiflike characters who are supposed to be the height of attractiveness. I hear its a reaction that started in the 1960s when people began to turn away from the traditional ideas of masculinity after what happened in WW2. Good idea/bad idea? I think its about time men stopped measuring themselves by how big their pecs are, but looking like the Joker ain't exactly my style.

Now please excuse me while I go and stalk some effeminite looking men to put up here in digital form.