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Always texting

December 29, 2011fetish, men, Public spaceangel, bigger, garbage, hair, male host, Moe, night, texting, Tori no Ichitokyo moe Leave a comment

This young man has an obvious talent for two things: making his hair bigger, and texting on his telephone. The festival is ending, and the street is full of garbage. Yet, our angel of the night is in another world.

Name this plant

March 14, 2009Nakano, plantscost, craigslist, English-language, flast screen TV, garbage, humidifier, husband, name, plant, recycling, sayonara saletokyo moe View all 2 comments

Does anyone know the name of this plant? I thought it looked so good that at first I thought it was plastic. As much as I love gardening, I am slow at learning the names of plants. .

The plant was a free gift with purchase from my second sayonara sale. Basically, foreigners in Japan who are leaving try to unload their stuff on English-language websites. I went to buy our first flat screen HD TV (only $300), and also left with this gorgeous plant, a humidifier for the husband, and a bike pump.

Because it’s costly to dispose of garbage, sayonara sales feature deeply discounted items and often free stuff. True recycling. Thanks, Brit guy in the neighborhood, and good luck with your next adventure!

Mount Fuji, from our apartment balcony

November 20, 2008Nakano, Public spacecrevice, garbage, incinerator, Mount Fuji, sacred, smoke-stack, snow, volcanotokyo moe View all 3 comments

I was awake early yesterday, and was surprised to see Mount Fuji with no cloud cover from our balcony. You can see the snow cover, and even the crevice running down the right side. Below is a cropped version of the photo.

Now I know that the sacred volcano is just to the left of the garbage incinerator smoke-stack.

Tokyo recycling

October 20, 2008Nakano, Public spacealuminum, プラ, burnables, cap, clothes-line, frugal, garbage, glass, grapefruit, juice carton, label, m(_ _)m, milk carton, Nakano, neat, night-sky, pet bottles, plastic, recycling, separating, Suginamitokyo moe Leave a comment

Juice carton on clothes line, against night sky

I just hung up my flattened carton on the clothes line. It makes me reflect on just how complex our reclycing is here. In the apartment building, we separate burnables from plastic (プラ）, paper from cardboard, plastic containers from plastic bottles, and aluminum cans from glass bottles. I still have trouble remembering that for soda bottles you must take off the label and the cap so that the main container goes with “pet” bottles, and the label and cap with plastics.

To recycle milk and juice cartons, we rinse the container, slice it open and hang it on the clothes-line. The apartment building doesn’t have a separate recycling area for this, so we walk it over to the supermarket about 25 yards from the front door. The only other thing missing from Nakano recycling is compost. (Suginami has that!).

I probably should have cut the juice carton with scissors. This is one neat and frugal city m(_ _)m