Weekly Japan Links 2

Still in Japan, still logged all the way on

皆さん今晩は！私はSlackのブルックと申します。I’ve said some variance of that phrase quite a bit this week. It’s been a fun trip, and I’m really enjoying the weird feeling of pseudo living here. I also deeply miss Snorri. It’s really a shame he can’t just always travel with me.

Let’s get to the links!

• なめ猫! Thanks to Kaz and Tomomi for telling me about this frankly amazing Japanese meme from the Showa era. Bless these kitties.

• Oddly, I never made my way to Shinsekai on this trip, but it’s a strange area of Osaka that never really caught up with the times—trapped forever in a glorious dream of an unrecognized future.

• Since I’m traveling, I wanted to share a post that shares my own ethos on traveling. Don’t @ me.

• Old, but delightful parody of NPR from the Merlin Mann.

• I really and truly hope that one day we’ll join the world in using Celsius and the metric system. Truly.

  

• Finally, I leave you with an interview with my favorite hot sauce-related interviewer.