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88 slide!!

2:45pm JST Monday 7 August 2006

Yay 88 Slide! Jesse braved the heat and recorded about 7 takes of me doing my first guest spot on 88 Slide today in Shibuya. (That be the answer to the question, by the way.) (shhhhhh!!!)

I plan to import the video into my machine and send to Noah, so he can do a pre-screening. I will actually mail him the tape if he says it is good enough for the show. Unless he has a big ftp server somewhere...

Thanks, Rachel!

I'm in the middle of Tokyo, a metropolis of over 12 million people!

Actually Tokyo is made up of 23 smaller cities called ku.

My question for you today:

In which ku am I standing?

A. Kookoorookoo ku
B. Shibuya ku
C. Shinjuku, or
D. Harlem ku

Okay, back to you Rachel!

Bike to Shibuya

2:51pm JST Monday 7 August 2006

Rode Jesse's bike to Shibuya today. 40 minutes with little worries. He's going to ride it (most of the way) back to his house.

good ol tokyo

##18:47 Monday 07 August 2006

Yoshio Kushida, a scientist who grew up in Tokyo said: "It's the most dangerous city in the world. There is just no way I would live there."

Belfast Telegraph

Article about the horrific nightmare that Tokyo will become when it is leveled by a monster earthquake sometime between now and the next 70 years.

Of course no one considers it a real threat: these things happen elsewhere, and only to other people.  We see more because video cameras have proliferated, but the threat is just as minor as ever.

And I have even less to worry about.  I know my angels will continue to take care of me, providing me with just enough danger for some fantastic stories, but not enough to put an end to it all.

technorati tags:tokyo, earthquake, future, threat

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zzz chat with Laura

4:50am JST Tuesday 8 August 2006

Chatted with Laura for two hours. Mostly we whined about our lives not going anywhere and sent some google earth links back and forth. I am tired.