What a fantastic time in Japan. Paraphrasing J. Ramirez-Escudero it’s the memetic equivalent of the Galapagos Islands.

Turn a ramen shop into a pasta bar
In which I go to Japan, fall in love with small ramen shops and think of adapting the model to Italian food. …
Notes from Japan: use your camera to text and walk.

Notes from Japan: there is no need for trashcans in a clean country.
Notes from Japan: ancient wisdom still applies.

Poor Twitter, only getting bad press lately.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-new-twitter-replies-are-giving-me-an-ulcer Trying out Mastodon, looks fantastic.
Notes from Japan: purikura

Notes from Japan: Akihabara is the Gomorrah of geeks. You will never find a more wretched hive of anime and arcades.
Global investment firm uses an advertising firm to create a faux work of guerrilla art to subvert real guerrilla art
https://gregfallis.com/2017/04/14/seriously-the-guy-has-a-point/
That is so Hollywood
[Citation not needed] Sandra Zober Sandra Zober was an actress. She was the first wife of actor Leonard Nimoy, with whom she had two children. […] She eventually joined a support group for women divorced from Hollywood stars that was initially called Life After Divorce Is Eventually Sane (LADIES), but was soon renamed the Hollywood Dumpettes. …