Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
10 Sep 2004, 5:19 a.m.
Fast Facts
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2004 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
- 13 Going On 30 is actually a fun movie. I cried several times during the 3 or 4 times I watched it over the Pacific. Man, I am so dehydrated.
- The mayor of Hiroshima has sent a telegram of protest every time some country has performed an official nuclear test for the past 50 or 60 years. It is hard to avoid repeating yourself in that sort of situation.
- Kappabashi, the district in Tokyo best known for fake food (got a fake daikon and an octopus keychain for Leonard), also sells chef's hats (got one for Leonard), stoves, dishes, signs, basically everything you need for a restaurant in Tokyo aside from the U-Bribe form pad. Maybe I did not look hard enough.
- During my two weeks in Tokyo, I received two separate emails from people who are virtual strangers to me and yet read this journal. Hello, Laura and Dara! I had to explain to Steve that this frequency was highly anomalous. Steve gets these kinds of emails every week, but then again he writes about Japanese fetish punk clothes and gets linked by BoingBoing.
