Japan, In Short

I have much to write about. Unfortunately, there's no time. It's been a day and a half since I returned from Japan, but I still haven't had a chance to write about the trip. So, here's a bulleted list, as a reminder of things to come:

• A front-row, in-your-face, sword-waving experience at a robot restaurant
• Alleys full of Japanese bars that felt like Burning Man camps
• Walking like Moses, parting Red seas of people at the most crowded crosswalk in the world
• Taking nearly eighty forms of public transit over the course of ten days
• Mastering said public transit within our first 24-hours
• A pilgrimage to Mt Koya, and the serendipitous witnessing of a Buddhist ceremony
• Staying at Benny Benesse's House in Naoshima
• A museum curated by the ghost of Stanley Kubrick
• The best ramen ever
• The best sushi ever
• The best bidet ever
• The best bakery ever
• The best soft-serve ice-cream ever
• A lone Geisha
• Weird, octopus-ball street food, and eating the bastard lovechild of a pancake and a quesadilla
• A broken toe in Tokyo
• The best whiskey jazz bar, with the best Moscow-mule ever
• A morning full of thousands of red gates
• A morning in a forest full of thousands of stalks of bamboo
• An untold number of NYT crosswords
• The best steak ever - made by Kobe Bryant!
• More whiskey, this time paired with 1920's silent movies
• Not enough sleep
• Shitting like a disgraced dog inside a subway station bathroom
• An unfulfilled blowjob

More on these tomorrow, I hope.