Sublight Monster

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Former paid liar. Advisor/ghostwriter to Japan PMs Abe, Suga and Kishida, speechwriter for Tokyo Gov. Koike. Now a TV star. Still deciding whether I’m retired or just a bum. Born🇺🇸, living🇯🇵, speaking🇫🇷🇲🇽🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Have the same name pretty much everywhere. He/him

Ending scene of Hunt for Red October where the Russian Ambassador tells the president another submarine has gone missing
Former mayor and current fascist sex pest Rudy Giuliani looking shocked.
Scene from The Muppet Movie, in which a giant Animal terrifies a town.
Gray-black crab on hard ground. Sumida River, Tokyo
Little crabs hiding in the seam between concrete blocks. Found by the Sumida in Tokyo
A small crab with a reddish body and white claws, hiding between some gray rocks.
Entrance to Toho Studios in Tokyo, wall with a black and white painting of Godzilla
Sign in a Tokyo park that says “園内では、服を着てください。 Please wear clothing inside the park.”
Poster at a Japan Burger King advertising a “Baby Body Burger”. This is an actual, unedited photo taken by me.
Cover of Atari Age magazine from 1982, announcing the upcoming Swordquest game series.
TMNT style logo reading “Vintage 80s Plastic Lunchbox”
A fat gaijin in kimono
Cartoon rabbit with a number 1 on its chest. Still from the music video “Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me”
Former Japan Times columnist, after someone helpfully updated his Wikipedia page
GIF from Throw Momma From the Train. Danny DeVito smacks Billy Crystal in the head with a frying pan.
Wrestler Yoshihiro Takayama.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino together with Mar A Lago member and sex trafficker Li Yang.
Panel from The Watchmen. “Nov 14: A partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing.”
X post from Laura Loomer: “So tired of people blaming all of their issues on Jews. I am so bored. Every time I log on it’s like Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew. It kills the user experience here at X.
Logo of the Toyama Grouses pro basketball team. The name is written in red heavy metal font above a row of long white fangs.
Driver’s compartment in a JR East Joban Line train. Pocket watch slot is in front of the driver’s seat.
Oklahoma senator Markwayne Mullin in a television debate. Photo from the side reveals he's standing on a box hidden behind his lectern in order to appear taller.
Debit charge of $5.81 (¥900) for Tabelog after making a reservation (not a cancellation or no-show)
Me, standing at an altar in minister’s robes. Photo was taken by me well before the ceremony when the hall was empty.
Photo of a chili dog
Canon Eos rebel S film camera, 35-70mm lens
Pencil drawing of a woman’s face in profile, cartoonishly exaggerated nose and lips.
Results of a foods vs social class survey, displayed as a radial chart. Lower, lower-middle and middle class are all over 4 of 5. Upper-middle and upper class are 2.5 - 3 out of 5. The caption reads “your food choices could not be tied to any one social class.”
Glados, from Portal.
White smoke billowing from the Vatican chimney, signaling that the conclave has chosen a new pope.
Luxembourg headline: De Poopst François ass dout
Not James Carville, but the dying alien from the 80s film Coccoon, to whom he bears a striking resemblance.
Headlines from Fox Business, BBC, Financial Times, yahoo finance, CNN and Axios all announcing that stocks are soaring, ignoring that they’ve crashed three times as much in the past week.
Still from the film Top Secret. Val Kilmer in a blue tuxedo with his hands up.
Two photos of Usha and JD Vance. Above, during the 2024 campaign. Below, March 2025 during the recent Greenland visit. She is 39.
Lawyer Ted Landsmark being attacked in Boston’s Government Center by a group of racist students in 1976. While one holds him from behind, another is attempting to impale him with an American flag on a pole. The students were protesting against black students being bused to white schools and attacked Landsmark as he walked to work.
A can of Two Rabbits Aussie Pale Ale next to a glass from 上野遊戯倶楽部: Ueno Leisure Club. A tiny little shop with lots of beer, gin, and whiskey.
Exterior of Afuri Karakurenai, at Shinjuku Subnade. I did not need to wait outside.
Ringo Starr in the 1981 film Caveman, dressed in furs and leather.
Karashibi Kikanbo in Kanda. Ramen covered in a thick layer of togarashi and sansho powder.
Debut comic of the British Dennis the Menace, March 12, 1951
Sen-shiro 川城 Chinese restaurant, located at 7-21-14 Takashimadaira, Itabashi-ku. Open at lunch, lunch sets ¥1000
A diagram from a scientific report showing the density and distribution of particles that are emitted during a fart. The farting person is standing, while a second seated person is taking the full brunt of the fart to the face.
Photo of an orca, head out of the water, facing camera with mouth open.
Photo of a magazine stand. Caption says “So many issues here”.
Promotional still for Probe, a 1988 series starring Parker Stevenson and Ashley Crowe about a socially awkward genius who solves impossible-seeming science-related mysteries.
The mother from Dexter’s Lab, wearing apron and kitchen gloves.
Sign at local Family Mart: [ガムシロップ•ミルク] コーヒーお買い上げの際 レジにてお渡しします (1つにつき2ヶまで) ご入用の際はお申し付け下さい For gum syrup and milk Let us know if you need any We will give them to you at the register when you buy coffee. (Up to 2 each) Previously these had all been in an open rack to take as needed.
Egg display at my local supermarket in Tokyo. Price is 280 yen for ten, or $1.85. Photo taken on Feb 6, 2025
Display at my local supermarket in Tokyo advertising eggs at 280 yen for 10. Photo taken on Feb. 6, 2025.
A store display of eggs. The sign is in Japanese, but the price is 280 yen for 10 medium-size eggs.
Exterior of Karashibi Miso Ramen Kikanbo in Kanda. People are lining up outside
A pan of my new recipe, a buta kimchi/pasta fagioli fusion, at high boil
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Exterior of Choya 張家, 3F of Atago Green hills, about 10min from Kamiyacho and Onariomon stations. Open for lunch, all lunch options are less than ¥1000. ¥500 takeout bentos.
Exterior of Stand By Me in Kita Senju. About 5 minutes from Kita Senju station. Interior is *very* tight, seats maybe 6-7. Payment is by ticket machine. Open for lunch, takeout available.
Photo of full moon and mars. Lens effects make the moon look like beams of light are shooting from each side
Still from Yoko Ono’s video for “Hell in Paradise”. A row of 5 people with Ono in the middle. From left, they start extremely small and become taller. They are in suits and sunglasses as they pose and sing.
Panel from the xkcd comic “negging” “You look like you’re going to spend your life having one epiphany after another, always thinking you’ve finally figured out what’s holding you back, and how you can finally be productive and creative and turn your life around. But nothing will ever change. That cycle of mediocrity isn’t due to some obstacle. It’s who you are. The thing standing in the way of your dreams is that the person having them is you.”
Panel from “Comic Artist” by Angus McKie. Man loudly and angrily shouting “Fuck the state, Fuck society, Fuck everybody, An what’s more, I’m not your fuckin comrade”