Frying tonight
Jan. 8th, 2005 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusOn Monday I fly to Japan. A week in Tokyo followed by six in Hakodate, Hokkaido.
Every trip to Japan is precious to me. The weeks are reeled out to me like a festive ribbon; a delight, an opportunity, a privilege.
I live, wherever I am, in a kind of ersatz Japan, a kind of ex-pat's club, a fan club, a semi-secret society. Tonight, for instance, I ate tonkotsu ramen at Cocolo Ramen, a semi-secret weekends-only 'Japanese eating event' on the Rosa-Luxembourg Strasse, a room transformed into a noodle bar by the simple addition of red lanterns, pump-up tables, and a kitchen that packs away into flight cases. The waitress wore geta and a kimono. She told me this was her last night; next week she'll fly back to Japan and start a new job in Tokyo.
Since I'll just be in Tokyo for a few days at the beginning and end of my Hokkaido stint, I ought to be planning the time carefully. But I expect I'll just follow my nose. The first thing I have to do is take my G4 iBook to the Apple Store at Ginza; the logic board just fried, a mere six months into the machine's life. The next thing I'll do, depending on jet lag, is visit the show Archilab: New experiments in architecture, art and the city, 1950-2005.
I wonder what Topo, the little rabbit we've just added to the Momus household, will look like when I get back at the end of February? I certainly hope he's scattering fewer fecal pellets on the sofa by then.
Every trip to Japan is precious to me. The weeks are reeled out to me like a festive ribbon; a delight, an opportunity, a privilege.
I live, wherever I am, in a kind of ersatz Japan, a kind of ex-pat's club, a fan club, a semi-secret society. Tonight, for instance, I ate tonkotsu ramen at Cocolo Ramen, a semi-secret weekends-only 'Japanese eating event' on the Rosa-Luxembourg Strasse, a room transformed into a noodle bar by the simple addition of red lanterns, pump-up tables, and a kitchen that packs away into flight cases. The waitress wore geta and a kimono. She told me this was her last night; next week she'll fly back to Japan and start a new job in Tokyo.
Since I'll just be in Tokyo for a few days at the beginning and end of my Hokkaido stint, I ought to be planning the time carefully. But I expect I'll just follow my nose. The first thing I have to do is take my G4 iBook to the Apple Store at Ginza; the logic board just fried, a mere six months into the machine's life. The next thing I'll do, depending on jet lag, is visit the show Archilab: New experiments in architecture, art and the city, 1950-2005.
I wonder what Topo, the little rabbit we've just added to the Momus household, will look like when I get back at the end of February? I certainly hope he's scattering fewer fecal pellets on the sofa by then.
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Date: 2005-01-08 10:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-01-08 11:41 pm (UTC)Would be kind of ironic as Jodorowsky (he claims) killed 100 rabbits with his bare hands for that film!
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Date: 2005-01-08 11:45 pm (UTC)A cautionary word about the rabbit if it is living indoors: mind that it stays clear of any carpeting or anything with artificial fibers--they sometimes have a tendency to graze on them. Since they cannot digest the carpet fibers, they can cause a blockage and the rabbit can die.
W
oh yes...
Date: 2005-01-08 11:49 pm (UTC)W
Re: oh yes...
Date: 2005-01-09 12:11 am (UTC)El Topo is caged at night. So far no cable or sofa chewing has been observed.
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Date: 2005-01-09 12:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-09 12:19 am (UTC)Anyway, your bunny looks cute, keep it away from mystical cowboys!
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Date: 2005-01-09 12:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-09 12:23 am (UTC)Damn those evil scientists......
Go Jerry Go Jerry Go jerry.
Topo Grande
Date: 2005-01-09 12:44 am (UTC)relevance
Date: 2005-01-09 12:51 am (UTC)Re: relevance
Date: 2005-01-09 01:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-09 01:15 am (UTC)Was the Eraserhead baby a bunny as well?
Date: 2005-01-09 01:20 am (UTC)I'm doing a film with him soon. I think he would be quite flattered you named your bunny after him.
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Date: 2005-01-09 01:21 am (UTC)Re: relevance
Date: 2005-01-09 01:32 am (UTC)and may i also take the opportunity to thank you for all the great reading material. and thank you lots for expressing your appriciation for my favorite group in the world, alejandra & aeron.
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Date: 2005-01-09 03:50 am (UTC)how i want one. but
allergies.
Re: oh yes...
Date: 2005-01-09 06:47 am (UTC)A safe journey,
W
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Date: 2005-01-09 07:42 am (UTC)i think it is very charming that rabbits leave around inoffensive "pellets" that are not that gross and easily cleaned up. if any animal was going to have cute feces, it would be bunny rabbits.
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Date: 2005-01-09 08:09 am (UTC)http://www.geocities.com/lionheadrabbits/lionheads.htm
Almost painfully cute. You ought to post his picture in
Re: Was the Eraserhead baby a bunny as well?
Date: 2005-01-09 08:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-09 06:30 pm (UTC)high-five,
r.
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Date: 2005-01-10 04:40 am (UTC)have a good flight.
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Date: 2005-01-10 08:35 am (UTC)We used to have a white rabbit. Be sure s/he (are you sure which?) gets plenty of petting every day. I've heard that they can get sick if they don't receive enough physical contact.
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Date: 2005-01-10 02:22 pm (UTC)I read guinea pigs do not provoke allergies to people.
Maybe im wrong?
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Date: 2005-01-10 02:24 pm (UTC)Oh missed you by a day!good trip to you!
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Date: 2005-01-10 02:54 pm (UTC):(
i can't be around bunnies at all, my face swells and i can't breathe
the only pet i could have would be a poodle because they have hair and not fur and one could put them in teacups
ArchiLab
Date: 2005-01-10 05:24 pm (UTC)Last time I was in Tokyo, the Mori was closed. I went up to the top of Roppongi Hills anyway, only to discover that all the revolving doors were verboten due to a tragic accident. So I was unfortunately able to appreciate neither the art nor the fresh air. Admittedly, I didn't suffer any tragic accidents.
Looking forward to getting back to Tokyo!
-K.
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Date: 2005-01-11 01:27 am (UTC)Beware, though, I hear there's a thriving black-market trade for lionhead rabbit critters.
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Date: 2005-01-11 06:37 pm (UTC)