michael lambe

Just a few snapshots from last Sunday. We were too late for the antiques market but we had a bit of a stroll around Toji’s temple grounds anyway.

Then on into town for a light meal at Vanilla (which you can read more about here).

We stayed there for a while and had a bit of a [...]

Great party the other night. The most memorable thing though was discovering that Massun is in fact Edward Furlong. Here are a couple of pictures for your perusal. I won’t even bother labeling them because they are so clearly the same person.

This is my favorite picture of the evening though.

You can see the rest here:

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Ha! Ghastly November is finally over! Actually I realised that part of my gloom last month was simply down to a lack of exercise. Catching a cold and feeling terrible kept me out of the gym for almost 3 weeks. When I got back in there I did exactly 6 squats and then immediately felt [...]

I don’t like November. The sudden sharp shift from warm blue October skies to day after day of grey cold drear (and my school’s refusal to turn on the heating) leads me to one inevitable conclusion: this is the long dark dentist’s waiting room of the soul. And on top of my seasonal gloom add [...]

I know this is traditionally the time of year when people complain about how early the Christmas decorations have gone up, but this Brooks Brothers Xmas tree made us laugh when we saw it yesterday.

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Back in October Mewby and I spent a day at Universal Studios Japan. And we had a very nice day there. And I completely neglected to post the pictures until now. Here they are (you can of course also view them properly on flickr).

So yeah, we had a lot of fun. I enjoyed the 3D [...]

For some time now Ted has been doing a thirty-three temple pilgrimage round Kansai. He only had one more left to do, on an island in Lake Biwa named Chikubujima and he invited us to join him for the occasion. I’m sure he’ll write up his own thoughts on the day but here’s a pictorial [...]

Here’s a nice picture of Mewby in Kobe last night before I get down to having a good old whinge and whine fest. I’ll write about Kobe further down if you want to scroll past the complaining.

PL Fireworks – A big old-fashioned whinge.
We’d heard that this fireworks display courtesy of the religious sect Perfect Liberty [...]

Saturday night was Joao’s 15th anniversary party. This party was much like other Joao parties. Riki and Nana were jumping about behind the bar.

Koji took his shirt off.

And I stole someone’s hat.

There was one notable difference this time though. After a long absence, Kageyan was back behind a bar.

Yutaka was snapping away with my camera [...]

Behold the cakeness: I had a really mellow birthday on Sunday. Went to see the Avant Garde Kyoto exhibition at MOMAK. And after feasting my eyes on beautiful things we went to Pontocho and feasted our bellies on beautiful eats at a Pontocho balcony restaurant. Then after the necessary karaoke revelry it was home [...]