Safari hat: Check
Ear muffs in June: Check
Everything in my closet, including hot pink pants: Check

She's ready for the wilds of Toyama.

(Sorry for the late posts, folks. Obligations tend to get in the way of updating.)

I think most of these fathers owe their children HUGE APOLOGIES for inspiring this kind of artwork.

Guide to political douchebaggery, rule 3: Standing alone on the busy street corner is all well and good, but why not employ the desperately bored housewives that make up 90% of your constituency to help you?
Pro-tip: Gloves for everyone!

Screw you, father figure, it's just your LOVE that I'm thanking!

Guide to political douchebaggery, rule 2: Hiring a loudspeaker truck is a good start, but to make yourself more "accessible to the people" (ha!), you should make sure to be seen beside the truck on busy street corners.
Pro-tip: People love it when you use a bullhorn to talk at them while they're stuck at the light. If you have no bullhorn, just wave your hand (gloved, of course) and look like you care about the peons as they drive by.

Guide to political douchebaggery, rule 1: Hire one of these loudspeaker trucks to shout bullshit for your campaign.
Pro-tip: People are most susceptible to political announcements at 6am on weekends.

The juxtaposition of the road cone, daisies and douche bag strikes me as somewhat poignant.

I doubt this was inspired by someone who saw that Jim Carrey movie, so I'mma chalk it up to stupidity/ Enlish Fail.

Japanese road blocks. Yeah.

Contradiction?

Toyama, Mountains in the sky.

Ricelets!

Your wall uh...well, it's not very wall-like anymore.

The ghostly Buddha of Takaoka. Once he was shiny copper, like a new penny, but...

Jesus and Buddha be chillin' together on a train.

OMG guys, the Fantastic (09) Twilight "Wizards" were here!
Is this some kind of retarded homage to that stupid sparkly vampire book?

Gorgeous shop shutter art.

Apparently the Tatami (traditional woven rice straw flooring) Makers in Tokyo are more hardcore than your average tatami maker. You can tell by the smarmy look.

This section of road was blocked off at 6am so that old folks could do their 「ラジオ体操」, or "radio calisthenics".

Interesting tidbit (as related to me by a co-worker): Apparently one way the Japanese gub'ment could tell citizens from Korean spies was by asking them to do radio taisou. "Only a true Japanese can do radio taiso." I call shenanigans, but it's kind of funny to think about what an interrogation of that sort might entail.

Come to my shitty little lottery shack/booth and get rich quick!