So it's been like

....two weeks since I last posted.  I'm not sure what I did in those past two weeks, but maybe some of these photos will shed some light on that:

Mister Donut is a popular donut chain shop similar to Dunkin Donuts except for the fact that it doesn't suck and by that i mean dunkin is aight it's aight but at mister donut they'll give you the five-star service if you order a donut to go like they wrap up napkins in wax paper and put the donuts in a bag and tape the bag shut then they give you a plastic bag to put that pretty bag into; also, they have these cool fuggin bear donuts

pooh had it coming

this a food court where u eat off of tree stumps.  if only.  no, it's just a food court

if(osaka_best == 1)

yeah japan you go get that tan.  dude's some kinda famous member of a famous stupid boyband group

your usual old summer festivals.  let me tell you a little about the dance that these women are doing.  they dress in white and dance on the street.

he whispered bacon wrapped sweet nothings into her ear

it was blurry when i was there, too.

takeshi's friend, kiyo.  he's my friend too.

that's takeshi in the back, posing with someone else's family.  i love these kids... that one day i met them.

that's a bouncer with a hand on my shoulder

I AM DETECTIVE and i will find the culprit who spits on the stairwell of my place every morning.  EVERY MORNING and probably EVERY EVENING.  EVERY and i will track him down and tell him that that's not the right way to be japanese.

So rather than talk about what I've actually been doing, I'm just going to post pictures and caption them til I exhaust them all.  Hopefully that'll give you some insight into what I'm trying to hide from you guys.

But really, I've been pretty busy just hanging with people lately and whatnot.  The first day I got internet, I uploaded more than 30 GB of... STUFF and got a letter in the mail saying they'd cut my interwebs if I didn't call them or fill out some online form.  Good thing I got someone to do it for me whew.

In some of the pictures above, there was a festival (aka Matsuri)... there are a lot of festivals in the summer over here, usually around train stations, from my understanding.  The one in the above pictures was at Ageo, and it was a lot of fun.  There are a bunch of stalls along the street with lots of food and a few games (though they all tend to look similar as you walk around the festival).  There are dudes and chicks dancing and they carry portable shrines or whatever and yeah it's pretty fun pretty fun.

Also, the day of Ageo Matsuri was the day I decided to become a crime fighter.  I know I joke a lot on this blog, but I'm really not joking about this part.