When writing a blog, it’s important to consider the tough questions, one of which is “How do you return after a long break?” You can make jokes about how little you update, to get everyone loose and ready to read something fun and funky, you can completely redesign the page to look all snappy and attractive as if you’ve actually done something with the time you’ve been away, or you can do what I’m going to do, which is follow the advice of Larry David’s real-life next door neighbor, given to Larry when he made a scene after quitting a writing job at Saturday Night Live: “Just walk in on Monday and act like it never happened.” On with the show…
So let’s see, the last post was October 10th, but I didn’t even get the chance to talk about my (non) trip to the Monkey Park from the weekend before, so let’s recap the month, shall we? Saturday the 6th I set out for the Monkey Park in Higashiyama Kouen, but upon my arrival I couldn’t find the park (turns out it’s another bus ride away), so I changed plans and went to the Higashiyama Kouen Doubutsuen (Higashiyama Park Zoo). At any rate, I got to see some monkeys, even if they weren’t free-range! First, however, we have to take care of an important bit of funny business which is animal-related. I bought my first bar of Japanese soap this month, and I enjoyed the name and package so much I took a picture:
That’s right. Cow Beauty Soap. It actually has milk in it, too, so Cow isn’t a totally random name. Only in Japan.
Just to qualify that a little bit, the Japanese do not (so far as I know) have a history of thinking cows are particularly beautiful. Only the cow’s milk is beautiful, I suppose. (more…)
