michael lambe

At the weekend I went to the National Museum of Art in Osaka to see an exhibition by Hiroshi Sugimoto entitled “The History of History“. If you’re interested this is what the museum looks like (I don’t know why it has rabbit ears):
And here is a close up entitled “Girl Eating a Sandwich”.
But anyway, back [...]

I just tried out this GenderAnalyzer thingy. It uses artificial intelligence to find out if a blog is written by a man or a woman and apparently it usually works pretty well. So I tapped in urls for both this blog and for deepkyoto and do you know, in both cases, I’m a lass. Who [...]

Baby Rowan
Congratulations to old pal Rik Abel and Adrienne Copithorne on the birth of their new baby Rowan Alexander on March 19th, which coincidentally also happens to be Rik’s birthday. Hurrah!
Deep Kyoto is back!
It’s spring and time to bring Deep Kyoto out of hibernation with a new article on Cafe Proverbs [15:17], the new vegan [...]

There’s a fresh posting up on you know what which is not so much a review this time as just a guide to stores in Kyoto supplying organic food and other eco-friendly products: Natural Food!
Kotake-san is currently serving piping hot pots of tasty tasty nabe at Little Bamboo right now. And no-one is ordering it! [...]

This has to be the most uncomfortable summer I’ve had yet; too hot at night to sleep, and too hot in the day to eat… I spend all day indoors sitting in my underwear in front of my fan. But perhaps you don’t want to picture that. (Email me if you do). And of course, [...]

A fresh review up on Deep Kyoto today of the restaurant/gallery Neutron Cafe.
Yesterday, Kageyama-san, Betty and I went on a little day trip to Kobe. Kageyama-san is an excellent guide to Kobe as he often “escapes from Kyoto” to enjoy the more cosmopolitan atmosphere there and also – the good food. The first place he [...]

What is the correct spelling for “kworr”? You know, “kworr” a la Sid James, as in “Kworr! She’s a bit of alright…”. Cwor? Kwaurgh? Quor? Anyway…
Two fresh reviews up on Deep Kyoto today. In one I check out the hype around Café Opal and find it somewhat lacking… In the other I find love at [...]

School’s out for summer! Yay-hey-hoo-hoo-ha!
Ahem. There’s a fresh review up on Deep Kyoto of Café Bibliotic Hello! today. I first went there three years ago on the recommendation of one Duncan Flett, and then somehow forgot all about it until my colleague Helen Bisset reminded me of it today. In the intervening years the Palm [...]

There’s a fresh review of Chikyuya up on Deep Kyoto. Check it out here: Chikyuya
And erm… that’s about it. Tired. Going to drink beer and watch Life On Mars instead.

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Well, I’ve decided to name and shame yesterday’s rat-infested restaurant. Apparently, all restaurants are required by law to get thoroughly cleaned out once a year, so they are obviously cutting corners there. They have a problem, they are aware of it and clearly are not taking any steps to do anything about it. So, the [...]