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Benson, yes, those are the shops I was referring to. And there are some cool restaurants too. Also UENO has the National Art Museum which is fabulous and a Modern art museum too. I like Akihabara but it is definately tacky.
Etson, I think it is that they speak softly. Also like a deaf person, I have to watch them to hear them. (i.e. I can’t be walking around cleaning my kitchen or something).
CMU, I actually attempted to watch the week before and found the same thing. So maybe it was the writing as well.
I have heard every kind of English accent I think – plenty of cockney too (metal traders big time). In Kansas City, I started the company with a Brit who became one of my best friends. He said it is going to be a contest to see who has more culture shock there in KC — him or me. When we both left, we both agreed it was me.
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At one point, one of our elected reps whose name I could / can not recall (thin, beard, glasses), tried to stick a flyer in my hand, and I automatically shoo people away who are trying to hand me things, only to realize after he walked by who he was, which, had I realized it sooner, I still would’ve shooed him away and not taken his pamphlet.
LOL i flicked my cigarette at some a-hole who was trying to hand out flyers a few weeks ago at the R union station stop.
I walked through the Atlantic Antic to DUMBO, to check out the DUMBO Arts Festival. The Atlantic Antic got a bit tiresome — it’s too big, too crowded, and too populated by the fried-sausage-and-tube-socks kind of vendors. Going around DUMBO was fun, though. Walking through those streets on a normal day, it’s not evident how many buildings house dozens if not hundreds of artists’ studios. While real estate prices are quickly turning DUMBO into SoHo (i.e., into a neighborhood too expensive for the artists who originally revived it), there is still a lot of great art being created there.
etson and lechacal,
I’ve always liked all things English,
from Churchill to James Bond to the Rolling Stones
…oh, and that very pretty English woman who put
her leg out to trip me on a cruise long ago…..
At one point, one of our elected reps whose name I could / can not recall (thin, beard, glasses), tried to stick a flyer in my hand, and I automatically shoo people away who are trying to hand me things, only to realize after he walked by who he was, which, had I realized it sooner, I still would’ve shooed him away and not taken his pamphlet.
Ah, yes, I remember very well the Hachiko statue outside the Shibuya station in Tokyo. I was back in Tokyo a couple of years ago after an absence of nearly 25 years (having lived there for a couple of years in the early 1980s), and it was as popular a meeting spot as ever.
I love Ueno, and the other older areas of Tokyo. I also like some of trendy areas on the western edge of Tokyo, like Shimo-Kitazawa and Kichijoji.
i think british is the ONLY european accent that is even remotely tolerable. i think one of the reasons there are so many terrorists and bombers in europe IS cuz of the horrible accents.
Benson, yes, those are the shops I was referring to. And there are some cool restaurants too. Also UENO has the National Art Museum which is fabulous and a Modern art museum too. I like Akihabara but it is definately tacky.
Etson, I think it is that they speak softly. Also like a deaf person, I have to watch them to hear them. (i.e. I can’t be walking around cleaning my kitchen or something).
CMU, I actually attempted to watch the week before and found the same thing. So maybe it was the writing as well.
I have heard every kind of English accent I think – plenty of cockney too (metal traders big time). In Kansas City, I started the company with a Brit who became one of my best friends. He said it is going to be a contest to see who has more culture shock there in KC — him or me. When we both left, we both agreed it was me.
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At one point, one of our elected reps whose name I could / can not recall (thin, beard, glasses), tried to stick a flyer in my hand, and I automatically shoo people away who are trying to hand me things, only to realize after he walked by who he was, which, had I realized it sooner, I still would’ve shooed him away and not taken his pamphlet.
LOL i flicked my cigarette at some a-hole who was trying to hand out flyers a few weeks ago at the R union station stop.
*rob*
I walked through the Atlantic Antic to DUMBO, to check out the DUMBO Arts Festival. The Atlantic Antic got a bit tiresome — it’s too big, too crowded, and too populated by the fried-sausage-and-tube-socks kind of vendors. Going around DUMBO was fun, though. Walking through those streets on a normal day, it’s not evident how many buildings house dozens if not hundreds of artists’ studios. While real estate prices are quickly turning DUMBO into SoHo (i.e., into a neighborhood too expensive for the artists who originally revived it), there is still a lot of great art being created there.
cgar!
I thought you appreciated my Haiku style. ;(
etson and lechacal,
I’ve always liked all things English,
from Churchill to James Bond to the Rolling Stones
…oh, and that very pretty English woman who put
her leg out to trip me on a cruise long ago…..
Damn I wish I was still 20! 🙁
Check out the Gowanus video link above^^^^^^
Absolutely incredible…like the third world!!!!!
Anyone go to the Atlantic Antic yesterday?
At one point, one of our elected reps whose name I could / can not recall (thin, beard, glasses), tried to stick a flyer in my hand, and I automatically shoo people away who are trying to hand me things, only to realize after he walked by who he was, which, had I realized it sooner, I still would’ve shooed him away and not taken his pamphlet.
Ah, yes, I remember very well the Hachiko statue outside the Shibuya station in Tokyo. I was back in Tokyo a couple of years ago after an absence of nearly 25 years (having lived there for a couple of years in the early 1980s), and it was as popular a meeting spot as ever.
I love Ueno, and the other older areas of Tokyo. I also like some of trendy areas on the western edge of Tokyo, like Shimo-Kitazawa and Kichijoji.
i think british is the ONLY european accent that is even remotely tolerable. i think one of the reasons there are so many terrorists and bombers in europe IS cuz of the horrible accents.
*rob*
oops, loud *shirts* and ties.
Loud shorts would just accentuate our pasty legs.