election time

hello gang.

barely a day goes past without me being amused by something ridiculous. recently, there have been a swag of local elections going on. stupidly i expected elections, a supposed demonstration of an individuals suitably to govern, to be free of the absurd kitsch that japan festoons upon us. but, when i was woken up to the coarse blurting of a megaphone one morning and discovered a horde of white-gloved morons marching outside my apartment i realised that i was sadly mistaken. the following photos are a uniform example of election campaigning, these groups keep popping up all over the place. u seriously have to question the credibility of a party that invites stupid foreigners to pose in photos with them. after our brief moment of political shenanigans, the lady with the microphone came up to us and shook our hands and bowed 17000 times and thanked us. considering neither of us had any idea which party they were representing let alone any concept of their manifesto and ideals i am baffled as to what we did to deserve such warm thanks.

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this was bizarre. this is in a museum in tokyo. a bunch of schoolkids came up to us and asked us to be in a photo. but strangely, they had no camera, they just wanted to be in our photos. so we let them


this was the opulent clubhouse at a golf course i played the other week. this place is a little more complicated then just rocking up at the local course in the dale to play. we were met at the carpark by some ladies who took our clubs. then we walked through the clubhouse which was like some 19th century mansion and then walked out the other side to a golf cart all set up with our cart in a cue of carts according to tee time. it was also compulsory to have lunch in between nines. it was super fun though, if a little expensive, but extraordinarily, the girl i played with (the ex-pro i mentioned in another post) gave me a set of 'old' clubs. i actually have her husbands old driver and a putter cover with his autograph. what an amazing gesture. i have known this girl for like 2 months and she has already shouted us to golf once, lunch twice and has now given me a set of clubs. party time.