Rainy season is officially over. Bring on the fancy shoes!

The husband reminded me that it is “not OK” to photograph strangers’ shoes on the Tokyo Metro. I couldn’t resist.

US Representative Weiner’s Twitter photo

Since I regularly watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, maybe I thought everyone knew about US Rep Weiner’s underwear shot that was tweeted from his account to a young woman who is not his wife. Well, the hubb hadn’t heard yet.

Weiner denies sending the Tweet, but cannot say with certainty if that is his underwear and member, or not. By sexting standards, this is pretty vanilla. While seemingly large and suggestive, his wiener is concealed, draped, and less explicit than most ads for men’s undies.

Do you agree with my mom that Rep Weiner’s career is “over”?

Melting older ladies’ hearts is enka heart-throb Hikawa Kiyoshi

I discovered enka heart-throb Hikawa Kiyoshi (氷川きよし) on the New Year’s Eve Kouhaku show. He did a big enka ballad in an over-sexed Arabian Nights production with gyrating belly-dancers. I love how in this image above he’s in front of a (very not gay) rainbow. It’s good to see that some youths are willing to entertain the nation’s growing population of elderly.

Over America?

As Guy Trebay wrote in the New York Times in reference to the Whitney biennial’s party, “Who could sincerely be “over” an America that includes Justin Bond?”