Big in Japan?

31 07 2008

An “XL” fire is just a little bigger than a car? Where was this system of fire measurement in 1923?

A questionable entry.





All I’m askin’

30 07 2008

Is for a little neglect baby, just a little bit.
Otis Redding can attest to that…

63 more people neglected and I’d have to work in a gratuitous Nat King Cole reference.





Tobacco Mon Amour

29 07 2008

Ore mo, ore mo.





Liberté Egalité Ashtré

24 07 2008

Phoque the guillotine! Those sans-cullotes could have bought some ridiculously awesome knee-breeches after spending only $5.99 on a portable ashtray at Tokyu Hands instead of padding the coffre-fort of rich ol’ Dr. Guillotin.





Utilitarianism, green and white

23 07 2008

Again with the philosophy… I don’t know how doing something in one’s own interest matters when it comes to inhaling buring leaves while failing to recognize its impact on others and how that would translate into a catchy sign affixed to outdoor ashtrays. Oh wait, you meant egotism not egoism? A socially cognisant sign created by a multi-billion dollar tobacco corporation with its main focus on egoism? RANDom as a run-on sentence.





He wasn’t just a vacuum salesman

10 07 2008

So with Japan incinerating 80% of their garbage and cities like Yokohama having instructions on how to dispose of such garbage items like “lipstick tubes” and “mis-matched socks” this seems like an easy way to eliminate bureaucracy for the garbage collection yakuza. A chicken in every pot and a stand ashtray in every garage indeed.





Mmmmm… tomacco

3 07 2008

The most popular man in Tokyo.





Waiting for Cancer

2 07 2008

And here is why so many salarymen decide to cause “Human Accidents” on the subways and trains of Japan. After a stressful 13 hours at the office they head out for a cigarette only to be confronted by some existentialist question that would make Camus wish he’d have written about Japanese signwriters instead of Algerian brothers. Hakuin Ekaku applauds; single handedly.





Sideways umbrella

30 06 2008

You’re doing it wrong.





Where’s the blue box?

24 06 2008

And here I thought the kind of litter I probably, maybe, kinda, almost, usually, sometimes, see most often in Japan are half burnt little Japanese Archipelagos outside building entrances and high schools. Touché, JTI.