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Tokyo swim club friends

September 2, 2014men15th Tokyo Rainbow Festival, allowed, friends, no photos, Shinjuku Nichome, sign, swim clubtokyo moe Leave a comment

Notice the sign behind them. No photos or videos allowed. At Rainbow Festival.

Sliding into the surf

September 23, 2013men, Public spacebeach, Chiba, friends, Onjuku, reaction, sideway, sliding, summer, surftokyo moe Leave a comment

I am not sure why I find this so funny. Maybe it’s the sideways motion, or his friends’ reactions. I guess the ocean is not safe, but is there a better place in the hot summer?

Very excited boys wrestle with light saber in early morning Shibuya

December 30, 2012fetish, menbusy, Call Me Baby, crotch, early morning, excited, friends, hand signal, light saber, Moe, new, open, posed, Shibuya, suggestive, weekend, wrestletokyo moe Leave a comment

We discovered these boys rolling around the street in Shibuya with a light saber suggestively posed, crotch adjacent. I love the “call me baby” hand signal, suggesting he’s busy but open to new friends too. I cannot recommend highly enough an early morning visit to Shibuya on the weekend.

Where I’ll be this holiday? At home watching HBO’s Girls

December 17, 2012New slang, Public spaceactor, bohemian, character, director, friends, geek, girls, HBO, holiday, husband, Jewish, Lena Dunham, mother, nerdy, NYC, parents, review, unsympathetic, virgin, writertokyo moe View all 6 comments

As the serious world of enterprise slows down at year end, I’m delighted to discover HBO’s Girls, a downwardly mobile Sex and the City set in Brooklyn. Think much much more unsatisfying sex, more existential angst, and many more Jewish characters.

The author, lead actress, and director Lena Dunham creates an often unsympathetic main character, who somehow manages to befriend a conservative girl, a bohemian girl, and a super painful virgin. But my secret pleasure is how she gave herself a disgusting boyfriend who is hot in a large nose and geeky fashion.

To share my mother’s characterization of this amazing talent: “I don’t like Lena Dunham, think she is a slob, painful to look at what she does with herself and how she wants/allows herself to be photographed.” I guess I agree with everything, except that I would delete the second word! I love it!

Is this what my college-age NYC nieces are watching? What is their review? I hope their parents, and frankly any parents, are *not* watching! And of course my husband has no interest since, as he says, “there are no zombies or werewolves.”

Sunday is Rainbow Pride Parade

April 28, 2012men, Public spacefriends, parade, Rainbow Pridetokyo moe One comment

Weather should be good for Sunday’s Rainbow Pride parade starting in Yoyogi Park. Hope to meet many friends there.

More Wentz: making dim-witted hot!

May 13, 2010fetish, food, male fashion, men, Public spacecry, dim, Eiji Wentz, feed, friends, hot, Keanu, Moe, wasabi, witted, youngtokyo moe One comment

The husband and M both pointed me to this video. Worth watching! First Wentz’ (male) friends feed him as he shouts “umai” (tasty), then one friend gives him food with so much wasabi his jaw goes slack, you can see the food in his mouth, and he cries. OMG! Dim-witted hasn’t looked this good since Keanu stopped being young!

Waiting at JR Nakano Station

May 1, 2010fetish, JR & Tokyo Metro, male fashion, men, Public spacebonus, boots, day, fashion, friend, friends, man bag, mod, Moe, Naknao, night, regular, retro, salaryman, style, suburban, unique, waiting, watchedtokyo moe View all 3 comments

Last week I was waiting for a friend at the Nakano JR station. He was late, but it didn’t matter. That station is one of my favorite people watching spots. At any time of day or night, there are always people waiting at the North Exit for friends to show up. Nakano has none of the desperate fashion extremes of Shibuya or Harajuku (fueled largely by suburban visitors, no doubt), but always a fun mix of mod, retro, regular and unique styles. I like this young guy’s studied indifference to being watched and photographed. Not sure about the 70s shark skin jacket, but I love the over-sized man-bag and boots. Plus the photo includes a bonus salaryman’s back side.

Young internet friends

September 20, 2009Public spaceappropriate, blog, boys, friends, girls, obsession, online, pop culture, uncletokyo moe View all 2 comments

Sometimes I have to be careful when speaking to people face-to-face about my internet friends. There is no way that it is appropriate to mention my “high school girl” friend I met online, but sometimes I forget. Still, getting to know several expat girls in Asia in their late teens and 20s has been an unexpected result of this blog.

For the record, I have met none of them in person, and being 100% gay I am only interested in friendship and reading their blogs. If anything, I feel mostly like a protective uncle, particularly to the teenager. And I am thrilled to learn about pop culture, boy-obsessions, and male misbehavior from them. We have a surprising amount of common interests!

I just noticed that two of my young online friends have mentioned me recently in their blogs: Marius Mink and MISA from Satellite of Love. I am also a big fan of 20s Canadian professional in Tokyo Green Eyed Geisha.

This used to be Shu’s playground

April 13, 2008Public spacefriends, Jennifer & John, Shu, Suginamitokyo moe One comment

We took a long walk by the park near Shu’s parents’ studio with Jennifer and John. We came across this cool rocket play structure, which Shu recalled playing on as a child.