I will be on vacation here in the snows of the Rocky Mountains till November 25.

My favorite blogger-megababe, Geisha Asobi (aka geisha fun), has a great photo of herself decked as a samuri warrior of the Japanese kitchen. (Since Japanese junk kitchens are the worst in the developed world it is no wonder she has to be a warrior just to survive.)

Embiggen.
Starting from the top and moving clockwise, the Japanese kitchen gagets she is wearing are:

The 3Yen’s 30-day “REAL WORLD” ROAD TOUR is presently snowbound in Bear Creek, Colorado USA where it has not stopped snowing for two days. It’s almost Japanese snow, that is wet, heavy snow…about 80 cm has fallen so far…which thanks to our Globally Warmer World never falls anymore in Tokyo (20 years ago Tokyo would have at least a couple of snow storms each winter, which would melt in a day or two).

I think my getting “cabin fever” and they are going to strangle each other… but my dogs love it.

I think I will throw my black Halloweenesque cat out of the backdoor and into a 1.5 m snow drift to see how much he “appreciates” the snow, muhahaha.

The 3Yen is on a road trip from now till the end of November…

I wasn’t really hip to this Japanese band, “Sour,” but this music video of their song “Hibi no Neiro” that they created from webcam clips submitted by their fanbase* is fun in its own funky aesthetic.

Idea thanks to Mathias Crawford and Boing².

I really can’t endorse Sour’s music as much as I can praise the creativity of their video.

*Apologies for the hideously ugly
Wapanese girl in the video.

For your enjoyment, Japanese flying panties, tastefully done of course.

Link thanks to Mulboyne.

The video is the ED theme to Sora no Otoshimono episode 2, Misaki Meguri by Sohara Mitsuki’s seiyuu Mina. If you want to learn the “secret” of flying pantsu, start at episode 1 on Youtube (English subtitles).

Following the tradition here on the 3Yen of the past 12 months of Tokyo Metro Manners posters, please enjoy the creative efforts of AK47.tumblr.com.

Click to view full-size version on AK47.tumblr.com
–Further explanation about “Yuri play (Wiki)”–

Here’s an outfit by Japanese designer Dai Fujiwara for Issey Miyake fashion house that sadly I am sure to see many times on the streets of Tokyo in the coming months, meh.

via Yahoo! News Photos Oct. 2, 2009.

The always charming Mari diary (blog) is something, “worse than Azuki Pepsi(red bean Pepsi), SOY SAUCE SODA.”

(Demented machine translation)

*‘Oishi’ aka “delicious” is a delightfully trite expression Japanese use every five minutes in order to drive gaijin/foriegners crazy when they are offered Surging Eel soda (3Yen).

Over on the A Rinkya Blog, I noticed they are selling “brewski” for dogs.
See for yourself …more…

If you look carefully at the labels, they read “wan-wan” (Japanese for ‘bow-wow’). As for other languages…