Aquatic Inference Engine

For all the hometown heroes, a five-page thimbleful of the wonderfulness that is the city on the hill.† :ping!:::pong!::ping!:pong!:ping!pong!ping!pong!pi-BWOOOOOooooo…. . . some form of holodeck-esque gaming created by someone with shockingly good taste in first names. The fate of the NYC World’s Fairground sculptures, the setting for an awesome Beastie [...]

For all the stairs you’ve lead me down…

For all the tricks I played.

For all the times we’ve gone around…

The fairest feel of your embrace.

For all the sincere insincerity…

For all the mutual mistrust.

For all the spun glass fantasy…

And every time you blushed.

For waking up,

And looking back.

For every book of days.

For ev’ry feathr’d hope n’ dream…

Scattered cross [...]

Your kanji lesson for the day.

This is “tensai”, it means genius. It’s a compound of two kanji. A kanji picture-book I saw this afternoon translated the two roots as “devil talent”†. But this evening I looked it up in my kanji dictionary, published by one of the most respected japanese language houses [...]

So where do you want to go tonight? I dunno man, I’m up for whatever.
Continue for an hour or so, typical back-and-forth for two still-getting-to-know-each-other XYs trying to hit on a mutually agreeable destination.
You up for some korean barbecue? Cool man, let’s do it.
Loops, slips and stalls, the conversation [...]

no one needs to look far* for truths that are relentlessly stranger than faulkner…
* - reg. req’d…. :-/
Tokyo is different. It is a new experience to live in a city where you will routinely bop 60-90 mins (NYC-New Haven) for any given evening’s activity, and then bop back b/c you gotta sleep somewheres…
Many pictures [...]