My Freezer/A Quick Trip to Italy

OK Player Haters... stop hating on my freezer art.

So, today, the very hip GenArt (an organization whose mission is to bring to light the most cutting edge, up and coming, cream of the crop talent in fashion, music, design, and film) sent out an email about Japanese anime figures. I have wanted some of these figures for a long time and waited for the opportunity to buy them here. They direct people to a site called Kid Robot that sells such stuff. And WHAT does this site sell?
FREEZER ART

You mocked my 10 Farrah Fawcett heads neatly lined up in my NY freezer. You mocked my Luke and Leah swinging across the freezer. Well... now who is mockable?!

OK. Enough of that. Let's talk about Italy!
For those of you that don't know this... we were lucky enough to take a quick trip to Italy a few weeks ago. Not only was it quick (it took only 30 minutes to get there), it was really small... and filled with Japanese people.

Here are some lovely photos of our trip.







One of the more bizarro tourist destinations in Nagoya (probably in Japan), is this mini-Venice at the port of Nagoya. There are canals, a miniature David sculpture, bridges, and Italian market (which is actually great), and lots of Japanese people dressed up taking photos, "artists" with their easels painting the scenery. Italian gondoliers paddle (is that what they do?) and an Italian orchestra plays. The whole experience was quite strange, especially being a foreigner to begin with and having all of the faces be Japanese. Not sure we'll go back, until we run out of fresh Parmesan, that is.