Santa Claus seems to have fallen on hard times in the dry season after Christmas. I spotted Old Saint Nick, covered in filth, rummaging through dustbins in Maedai-Mae in Tokyo. Clearly desperate for cash, Santa has taken to busking with a saxophone.
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Drinking Adventures in Japan
Gaijin Tonic- Little in Japan: Private Lessons April 9, 2012Hello there! I’ve posted another web-comic on Little in Japan about the perils of dating students. Check it out here.Roaf
- Groovy Tokyo Bars February 22, 2012The Guardian have printed a list of trendy bars and clubs to check out in Tokyo. A nice variety of watering holes are featured in the article, and I can vouch for most of them, especially the brew pubs and whiskey bars, although I have yet to try Stand S’s “mojito beer”, which sounds like [...]Roaf
- Japanese Booze News: Feb 2012 February 9, 2012A nicely-named bar in Sannomiya, Kobe. Hi, pals. Since this blog seems to get more traffic now than when I was actually writing it, I may as well start posting again. One afternoon a couple of weeks ago, 63,000 people checked out a story I wrote 3 years ago. It’s a bit like everyone buying [...]Roaf
- Little in Japan: Double Date January 19, 2012Greetings! Sorry for my recent inactivity- it’s a protest about SOPA (honestly). I’ve put a new comic strip up over on LittleinJapan.com This time it’s about a disastrous double-date. Read the rest of it here!Roaf
- Little in Japan: Up with the Cock October 4, 2011I’ve just posted another comic strip up on my other site, Little in Japan. These will be more frequent now that the beach bars, beer gardens, and outdoor festivals are over for another year. This time, more domestic disputes and hangovers. Read more here!Roaf
- Definitive List of Tokyo’s Beer Gardens July 20, 2011Tokyo’s balmy summer evenings are perfect for a bit of outdoor beer-imbibing (except when there’s a bloody typhoon like today.) Where better to enjoy it than on the top of a skyscraper, under the stars? (you can’t see actually any stars, but you can achieve the same effect by signing up for an all-you-can drink [...]Roaf
- Little in Japan: New Room-mate July 13, 2011I’ve finally put a new comic strip up on my other site, Little in Japan, after tons of slacking, procrastination, dealing with a high-maintenance woman, boozing, and hob-nobbing at parties. This time the disaster-prone, insecure English teacher, Dave, is horrified to discover he’s getting a new, young room-mate. Check it out at littleinjapan.com.Roaf
- Hilarious T-Shirts from T-Shitsu July 11, 2011Rainy season is officially over, and it’s time for me to stock up on some new threads to sweat all over during the “super cool biz” summer. I thought I’d check out T-shitsu, who always have lots of specially-designed T-shirts with funny Japan-themed prints. There are lots of rib-tickling T-shirts on there as usual! (by [...]Roaf
- Japan Booze News 6/29 June 28, 2011Hello, and thanks for reading another of my increasingly infrequent missives! If I’m not posting much, it generally means there are lots of fun drink-related activities going on in Tokyo, and this month’s no exception. Last week was father’s day, and numerous beer-related novelty products were flying off the shelves of shops such as Tokyu [ […]Roaf
- The Harpys: Crushed Cake May 23, 2011Here’s a video a friend and I made for my Japanese mates’ wacky band. Enjoy!Roaf
- Little in Japan: Private Lessons April 9, 2012
seasonal workers have it though during the rest of the year. He has a wife, reins and so many elves to feed all year long.
I saw a drunk salaryman pay him for a BJ in Ueno a couple of months back. I chased the guy off and gave Santa a 1000 yen.
Not for a BJ, mind you. Kind of like a tip for all the cool crap he got me when I was a kid.
Heheh!
I heard he just got some money by selling his reindeer to the glue factory.
For the love of _____!!! please help Santa!!!
He hooked me up somethin’ proper as a youth. I was real bad and he still gave me the goods.
Who was he trying to sound like? Paul Desmond, or John Coltrane?