I trust you also have a 風呂！

deals still exist in Tokyo

same in Japanese .... パンツ

this summer's gunna be hot #nohampa

if you happen to be in Kyoto later this month and want to hear my spiel in Japanese...

seems like gas prices have gone *down* here in Kyoto -- saw a few in the mid-150s today

still disappointed that The Get Up Kids schtick wasn't wearing interesting get ups

first green pheasant I’ve run into in Kyoto

y‘all hep to the new guinea pig trend?

glad they’re keeping this one though

seems like a bad thing to demolish, but what I do I know? I’m not the governor of Kagawa

speaking of which, I haven’t noticed much jump in gas prices here at all. in the U.S. a few weeks back and everywhere shot up fast

a little road-tripping before the term gears up

they're practically living in the park and still barely make ends meet

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

who gave him an orange tie for the Takaichi chat?

not an explicit filter, but a de facto one

I had friends whose MA was the filter en route to PhD, but I think people *could* pop in laterally. Most didn't. I had an external MA and then another local one first from my doctoral institution but neither were required. Like others said, though, coming directly from a BA was very very rare

Tokyo report: Haneda and the Keikyu train still grossly warm

Trump administration to slash fee to renounce US citizenship from $2,350 to $450 White House will take a financial loss to make it easier for Americans to walk away from citizenship starting in April

👀

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

**Postdoc positions**

Kyoto University has opened up applications for the Hakubi Project, due May 17, 2026.

This is a cream of the crop postdoc ("all fields, from basic to applied"), 5 (FIVE!) years, great research budget.

Please apply or let others know!

www.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/recruitme...

thanks UCSB, the talk was a blast. now off (after a few short hours of sleep) to Vancouver!

and/or working in Japanese academia

What do you wish you knew about the Japanese academic job market? (future or past tense)

I’ll be giving the grad crew at UCSB a talk on that topic on Tuesday and would love to add more than my own musings.

was supposed to be redone the day after I took the photo...but I won't be back to check for a while....

Beastie Boys - B-Boy Bouillabaisse (1989) YouTube video by Borunzio

perhaps this?
youtu.be/EwGjVsCSOsU

this was indeed good (and yep, very packed today). the rest of the NGA was wonderful as well

that place is famously associated with anti-racist activism and gets regularly trolled by fans of racism

still sad that Mosquito disappeared (but also amazed at how long the clutch of ramshackle squatted bars lasted)