Goodnight, O honorable Sir Moon

Still in the afterglow of President Obama’s Inauguration, I spent the afternoon window shopping in Osaka yesterday. Walking through Kinokuniya – one of Japan’s largest bookstore chains – I paused by the DVD section to enjoy the clips of Obama’s Inauguration Day speech that was playing on loop. Beautiful, baby; beautiful. Did I feel the […]

Brush, Baby

This is my computer lint brush. It was an impulse buy from Loft; super cute, ostensibly handy and, perhaps, so quirky that, like my mugen edamame keychain, it risked falling into the “perfectly good waste of several hundred yen” category. And yet, I’ve used it several times a day since I bought it 2 apartments […]