{"id":137,"date":"2008-02-07T03:04:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T02:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-02-07T03:05:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T02:05:41","slug":"harajuku-and-kabukicho-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2008\/harajuku-and-kabukicho-pictures","title":{"rendered":"Harajuku and Kabukicho pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll have to say I get distracted in Harajuku by all the Engrish.\u00c2\u00a0 My battery gave out somewhere in there and cost me the photo of the “Rich\u00c3\u00a4rd” boutique (imagine gothic lettering for the logo).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Fashion
\nI’m sure it’s a\u00c2\u00a0clever reference\u00c2\u00a0to some bygone decade.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Dragon
\nOur shop is seriously cool!\u00c2\u00a0 So is my job!\u00c2\u00a0 Just look at me! \u00c2\u00a0(I wish I’d gotten the disbelieving stare of a foreigner who passed shortly thereafter.)<\/p>\n

\"Bruce-Pee\"
\nClothing for the more\u00c2\u00a0cowardly martial artists.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Out
\nWait – is it okay for me to stop and read this sign?\u00c2\u00a0 And is that why the shop looks empty?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Change
\nNot your typical Harajuku house.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, actually, that makes it sort of typical.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"nano-universe\"
\nWow, we only try to measure it.\u00c2\u00a0 They got in at the ground floor.\u00c2\u00a0 Or did they mis-translate microcosm?<\/p>\n

\"Bourgeois
\nEmancipation\u00c2\u00a0killed the chauvinist pig.<\/p>\n

\"Design
\nThe Design Festa Gallery building.<\/p>\n

\"Design
\nThe gallery rooms are former one-room apartments, hence the gas meters.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Tralala\"
\nThe staircase to mindless happiness.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Natty
\nNatty hair or Glitzy Chest?\u00c2\u00a0 Your choice!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Used
\nNot just Panama Boy -\u00c2\u00a0Used Panama Boy.\u00c2\u00a0 They serve cocktails of colonial supremacy inside.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Nudy
\nFor\u00c2\u00a0conscientious objectors to Used Panama Boy.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

We now move to Kabukicho, where sleaze and exploitation meet, of all things, Korean cuisine.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Honky
\nNice Badonkadonk.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Casanova\"
\nPart of the menu at Casanova.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Casanova\"
\nMore options at Casanova.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"surrounded
\nIt’s like the cheese counter at Wal-Mart: they all look the same to me, vaguely artificial, and not terribly appealing.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"The
\nAnd always in the midst of it: Mr. Moustachio.\u00c2\u00a0 (The bottom right sign says “Crime won’t be overlooked.”)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Hotel
\nStill my favorite name for a love hotel: Hotel Speck.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll have to say I get distracted in Harajuku by all the Engrish.\u00c2\u00a0 My battery gave out somewhere in there and cost me the photo of the “Rich\u00c3\u00a4rd” boutique (imagine gothic lettering for the logo).\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure it’s a\u00c2\u00a0clever reference\u00c2\u00a0to some bygone decade.\u00c2\u00a0 Our shop is seriously cool!\u00c2\u00a0 So is my job!\u00c2\u00a0 Just look at me! \u00c2\u00a0(I wish I’d gotten the disbelieving stare of a foreigner who passed shortly thereafter.) Clothing for the more\u00c2\u00a0cowardly martial artists.\u00c2\u00a0 Wait – is it okay for me to stop and read this sign?\u00c2\u00a0 And is that why the shop looks empty?\u00c2\u00a0 Not your typical Harajuku house.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, actually, that makes it sort of typical.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}