Comments on: I went out on the balcony / With your photograph

By: Mark Alger

Mark Alger — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:49:06 +0000

Hey, no big. But thanks.

M

By: Sean Kinsell

Sean Kinsell — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:20:05 +0000

Oh, damn. Sorry! I knew I was going to do that someday. I mixed up Kyoto and Kobe a few months back–I have this real alliterative-city problem, apparently. I’ll fix it.

By: Mark Alger

Mark Alger — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:17:08 +0000

Sean, dear Sean;

While Dolly and I deeply appreciate the link and mention, and I understand that the cities may look the same from 10,000 miles away, BTB posts from Cincinnati, not Cleveland. Kind of like the difference between San Francisco and the OC. ::grin::

M

By: Sean Kinsell

Sean Kinsell — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:48:29 +0000

I don’t trust anyone who isn’t snippety on occasion, my dear. No worries.

And no, I’m not into the combination of sweater and shorts. The proportions are all off–unless you choose either a very snug sweater or balloon-y shorts, neither of which is all that flattering. If I had to choose summer or fall clothes as sexier, I’d choose fall. The unwrapping is part of the fun.

By: Portia

Portia — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 05:57:08 +0000

So, your ideal guy wears that veddy Bwitish uniform of sweater and shorts?

Not-that-there-is-anything-wrong-with-that.

Sorry -- I didn't mean to be snippety on thread above. Just bad joke. I'm in a WEIRD mood today.

Yay on weather getting more bearable. Here too.

P.

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:23:10 +0000

I actually enjoyed sitting outside in the sun each week after playing the salaryman for five days - I caught up on Japanese people watching and reading.

I agree that wears on you is the after-show slow procession to get squeezed into railway cars that are crowded even by rush hour standards. In a couple of instances, I was actually hoping someone would grab my wife's ass so she could castrate him right there, and in the melee give us a little breathing room.

Oh yes, Taipei is worse in the summer, and that black jungle-funk that makes all the concrete turn black smells like a huge, dank basement at 38 C and 95% humidity.

By: Sean Kinsell

Sean Kinsell — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 03:29:41 +0000

I will take your word for it.

I've heard Taipei is worse, though when I went, it wasn't summer, so thankfully I can't verify that. Atsushi and I went to see the fireworks here along the Tama-gawa a few years ago. We got there early enough to get a pretty good seat, and I didn't really mind the sitting. I was with Atsushi, after all.

What I minded was the leaving--at the exact same time as the combined population of three wards of Tokyo. That was not fun.

By: John

John — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:34:37 +0000

Mmmmmm. Kirin Milk Tea. My own talisman against Tokyo summers. My wife dragged me to every Hanabi Taikai in Tokyo one summer so that she could perfect the art of firework photography (which she did). Did you know that there is a Hanabi Taikai every freaking weekend somewhere in Tokyo from late June until the Sumidagawa one in late August / Early September? There is, take my word for it.

Sitting on a tarp for 6 hours (so that we could secure a good picture-taking spot, dontchaknow) in the Tokyo heat made me give thanks for one thing: we weren't living in Taipei.

I liked the OT reference. Took me back to listening to an old black preacher on a hot Sunday afternoon down South.