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  1. Up at usual time. One of the dope things is that Adelaide and Tokyo are only ½ an hour apart so jet lag was nil. Our apartment was pretty bloody close to train tracks IMG_5916.mp4 Skatepark in this wicked spot under the train tracks for several blocks Took the train into town Graffiti at Ebisu as per usual. Shibuya scramble not as hectic as it used to be with one street closed off. Schnitzel with bandages to hide the tats/provide much-needed support to left knee. Fuck this was a nice coffee and so sorely needed. Hit up the Gashapon place. Big mistake because my daughter got so hyped about it and we spent a lot of money in these places throughout the trip. The Iceman MQUE Tower Records Good lord the older fatter me loved fried stuff on a stick so I was pretty hyped on this one. Takeshita street Harajuku Corn dogs or what I imagine corn dogs are. Some Korean hotdogs Animal café (very dubious animal welfare standards I suspect) Gigantic fairy floss is another big mistake from me. but the kids loved it and they crashed hardcore when they got home. then because the kids were cactus and Disneyland was tomorrow we headed back for some relaxation with the kids hitting the Ipad and schnitzel trying to convince mrs Schnitzel to add another stamp to our passport so to speak doradao day is a couple days in future
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  2. @Wyeast @cancelculttourist @SMdoubleXL @Joker @LUGR @mr.yuck @Dark_Knight @DETO @P O N Y R I D E R @Deine Mudder @Corpseinarug
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  3. Think it’s been far too long since we had a travel pic thread and since I’m all for generating new content on here and avoiding the “back in the days” nostalgia thought I’d put my photos where my mouth is. It was a gloomy rainy day last April when I looked at flights. And since I have the right combo of a bit of spare cash and a TOTAL lack of long term planning Ibooked some flights for last September to Japan. The plan was to fly to Tokyo, then to Okinawa for one week where we would drive around, and then to Osaka before flying home from Tokyo. This way we hoped to combine Japanes-y stuff ( for me) with tropical warmth (my wife), Japanese food (me), Disneyland/colossal aquariums (kids), bullet train (my son), and J-Pop and kooky fashion (my daughter), animal cafes (my kids). So, hope you enjoy. Had a crazy moment when my wife (for some reason I cannot fathom) packed my daughter’s old and new passports but forgot my son’s and we nearly had a big old argument. Had to fly to Sydney and overnight there. 7 years ago when I left Sydney I was stoked to see a tag on this wall but the scene has gotten way more hardcore. Flying over PNG Sunset ooks cool through the Polarised windows Landed. Japan really doesn’t trust gaijins you have to give some of your fingerprints before you even get to immigration. NOTE the stupid fucking sushi soft toy my daughter insisted we take Made it to the house. Kids to bed Schnitzel to 7/11 for beers
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  5. Alright. The fiction, architecture, gardening, bonsai, Graff, pin-up, half the art, tattoo, and misc other are mine. But well over half is the wife's, she also has another 8' of shelves upstairs and a bunch at her studio.... I only took a few highlight pics or author's collections I'm most proud to own. Do we all own Papillon?
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  6. The big day for the kids Tokyo Disney land Breakfast of champions Pork Buns and iced coffee. manhole cover shot because it was nice In our $150.00 Uber to Disneyland because where we were staying would have involved 4 trains to get there. Monorail from train station before we hit the queue. Fuck me it was like 5,000 people long and it was 25 minutes before opening time. But being Japanese it was fast to get in and no bad vibes. The same queue in Australia would be full of people complaining about it. Everybody was decked out which was really cool. I was 100% in the top 10 fattest people in the entire 20,000 people there that day. It's funny the Japanese seem to like nice, clean-to-eat food until you get to Disneyland in which case everybody is walking around chomping on a big ol greasy smoked Turkey leg good thing about riding the teacups was that the parade came out while we we in the queue right next to it Thicc? (mrs incredible haha) biting this tshirt for a piece one day. I thought it was pretty cool to wear some bootleg disney shit at disneyland Had to stay for the night time parade the exit was also mobbed as was the giftshop - this shit was like the last dry deck on the titanic. then we got outside and discovered that an uber was going to cost about $250.00 and would be a wait so I grabbed a taxi. The one taxi in Tokyo where the driver spoke not a word of English and could not read a word of English so I had to set up google maps and pray my phone didn't go dead on the 40 minute drive home. One thing is for sure. TOKYO by the freeway at night is a beautiful experience. it's just a sea of lights as far as the eye can see. would have taken photos but my phone was dying and I had to wave my arms to describe which way to go to the cabbie. Until we reached the home area and he understood what I meant by "OTA CITY" then we high-fived. more later Always. I always keep 12oz in mind when traveling.
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  8. Oh hai guyz, Long time no see. I’m still alive and well. Got tagged in this post so I figured I’d pop in. Glad to see y’all are still Oontzing. I’ll try to not be a stranger! if anyone wants to follow my art endeavors, check me out on instagram at bob_peck_art
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  9. Crazy you asked - a buddy last night asked me to send him some pics to show to a guy. So I have photos on hand looks a bit like this: there are about 6 more graff books around the house and another 500 odd mags in tubs in the shed. Literature books seem to be scattered elsewhere The shoeboxes are filled with small format zines the most premium mags in the collections are currently in a mess the worn out book on the left is a cookbook from the 1970's that was my mum's it's full of food stains from the kitchen and handwritten notes from her along with some notes about recipes so it's a little bit of her even though she's been dead 18 years.
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  10. @misteraven @Mercer @nicklesndimes @metronome @psm026 @MOOGLE? @Dark_Knight @6Pennies @KILZ FILLZ @LUGR @mr.yuck @SukiSukiNow @Hua Guofang @Hayabusa @T4M* @Schnitzel @fat ralphy
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  11. @Media One @ClownPrince @Dark_Knight @defyoner @Kults @DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER @misteraven @Dirty_habiT @nicklesndimes @rage @Ray40 @KILZ FILLZ @FaseIT @a beer with the pope @abrasivesaint @SMdoubleXL @SukiSukiNow @MOOGLE? @Fist 666
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  12. rapidsave.com_indians_dont_joke-sul1tu05xknc1.mp4 A classic
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  13. Dorado Day for @LUGR Morning snorkel with the boy - visibility was shit. found a wicked concrete pipeline I could walk along to get miles out in the water. Probably a sewage line but it meant we could walk out rather than swim out. An interesting thing from the US occupation was the rise of drive-in diners all over the island. we were told to go to Cape Zanpa Drive-in. So we did. Coffee and burgers and shakes went up the lighthouse and watched a guy frantically casting to take advantage of the Dorado kicking around the deep water cliffs (my wife's camera has a piece of dust stuck in the lens can you tell?)
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  14. Had to be up semi early the next day love all the train posters they have in japan my inner rail nerd wanted to steal it. Airport where we found out the robotic baggage check-in does not mess about with weights. We had to repack all the bags just right and eat all the snacks etc. Tokyo goes on forever from the air. Landed in Okinawa. can of coffee. Rental car The Toyota TANK lol! Then 37km drive along the main north-south freeway. Okinawa is the only Japanese prefecture with no rail at all. During WW2 the United States bombed the railways so heavily that it was eliminated and during the occupation, the US put in freeways instead of rebuilding. Driving in Okinawa is pretty fun. The top speed limit is 80 km/h but I was doing 100 km/h and still being overtaken by everyone. The apartment was fucking sweet was a bit scared it was gonna be a shithole but I needn’t have worried. Cool bus for a restaurant. The creatures are called Shisa and they came to Okinawa from China in the 14th century. Closed mouth – good spirits in Open mouth bad spirits out Love a good Asian restaurant. Eating would be so much more fun if Australian restaurants decked out like Las Vegas. The tank in all its glory. Looks like a piece of shit but was great for parking with sliding doors and the back was flush so you could park real close to a wall. went to American Village for dinner in Chatan. it's close to Kadena Airforce base and was packed with African American servicemen and their ultra tanned Japanese girlfriends.
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  15. This shits fun to navigate from my phone LOL Just kidding. Idk how tf it all works now… No more uploading pictures from my old camera.. haven’t done a Days in Pies in I don’t know how long 😞 was just mentioning @PITOFZOMBIESa few days ago.. It was his end of life anniversary 😥 I still wear my 12oz shirt with all our names on it! Anybody else? Hope you all have been well 🖤
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  16. bottom to top albums full of prints. All my horticulture notes. Boxes of prints. More boxes of prints. Magazines of CDs and Pookie the hoodrat Bottom to top paint and projects books brushes, canvases and a small easel -was intended to be a small paint corner that has been overcome/ covered by heating pads, shoulder massagers and shit like that books black books and bibles (I’ve had that Bible since I was 5 or so)
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  18. Well part time... As y'all know I'm a frequent movie goer. We have an art gallery/theater for plays, concerts, comedy shows, movies, etc... It's a non profit and for the last few years every Christmas my wife donates enough to make us members. Anyway, as a member you get discounted tickets to new artsy/indie movies and every month they do at least 2 throwback movies. The throwback movies are free for members. This was the main reason we would get the membership. This last year I got to see shit like the original Star Wars on the big screen. The Goonies, Jaws, My Neighbor Totoro. etc... (plus it's the biggest screen in town and Dolby 7.0 surround) Anyway, about a month ago I saw a listing for a Film Programs Coordinator for the center, only 10 hours a week and half of it is remote work. The remote work includes watching screeners for upcoming films, watching trailers, and coming up with ideas for throwbacks and promotions and heading up the film committee ... Anyway, after 3 interviews, I got the job. I'm two weeks in and am absolutely loving it. This is the most fun I've ever had at a job. I get to watch movies and talk movies with other cinephiles. [/pink!]
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  19. I remember these three signatures. “everyone has a plan until you punch em in the face” “keeping you on your toes, like a midget in a urinal” (I say those two lines at work ALL THE TIME) “what’s the point of being unemployed if I don’t have a bangin ass tan” I have no idea why those ones stuck with me hahah
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  20. Went to Madonna Didn’t wear my sweats New mural in Little Tokyo/Arts District (barf)… let’s go Giants! DimSum Dashi Kombu
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  21. Breakfast then off to town Largest city is Naha traffic sucks so they have a monorail that goes around town. Pokemon trains etc. Samurai mac but I can't recall what made it special. went through the centre of town to kokusai Dori coffee obviously didnt work on this dude 2000's era graff at Xlarge went to DonQuiote discount store. this shit is an institution in Japan. I love it for the bonkers signwriting in the store - all hand cut hand painted lettering. each store employs a full time sign painter to do their merchandising and it rules. found paint so I decided to go scope a spot out under the freeway near our apartment. Went back that night expecting it to be a ghost town and came face to face with a group of bus drivers eating noodles round a card table.
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  23. From a mural project 12ozProphet did back in 2010. Day 1, superintendent of NYC schools showed up randomly, and got heated with the crew for not using safety gear, mistakenly thinking we worked for him. Next day started playing it safe Even Marty donned the official AKA safety gear. Mr. Raven, Futura, Martha Cooper, and an anonymous 12oz legend in the back Futura turning $12 kicks into collectors items. Octavio taking a different approach to footwear. Martha Cooper & Henry Chalfont dropping in. Me giving an interview covering the virtues & downfalls of hostess snowballs Octavio & Gustavo taking an actual interview break Crew Taking a break in that hot NYC summer heat/humidity Back in the Lab AKA/12oz Headquarters Finishing up the job. Futura let me drive the whip that day, insane 1 of BMW, and I didn't scratch the rims. Finito. Originally the the school said it had to be an educational mural, so the Twins gave a B&W sketch showing all the flags and the school gave permission thinking at least the kids could learn the flags. Later, they did all the flags the wrong colors. Genius. My favorite is the Molotov Cocktail ancom flag where the left ball would rest.
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  24. anything can be a fleshlight if you're brave enough
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  25. Spring is here and I spent last weekend planting new fun greens, changing out soil, trimming, pruning, and cleaning… Would love any helpful tips. artichokes green beans aloe vera got water logged from the storm and I’m trying to save it avocado tree yields some fruit but the damn squirrels and birds get to them while they are too small and not ripe cilantro and green onions thyme, oregano, strawberry, beets, mint, basil, blackberry carolina reaper, ghost pepper, 7 pot, habanero, Trinidad scorpion, lots of pepper plants around the garden not sure why my Jasmin has t bloomed this year Meyer lemon, already yielded some yummy lemons guava tree where little creatures climb to feast usually one bite and wasting the rest sage isn’t doing so well more peppers hello jade plant, marjoram, and lemon grass had to trim neighbor’s lemon tree. Is it bad that I tossed some debris into their yard? more peppers air plants are starting to shrivel up
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  26. Yall , I am goin thru it.
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  27. To be fair, from what I’ve seen, the two posters that I had next to no constructive conversations with seem to be MIA. I realized it was time to step away from all that when dudes were deleting messages I had made and then responding to other messages so it looked like I was being flagrantly ridiculous; I started taking, and had screen shots to prove it at the time.. but at that point I had to ask myself, what the fuck am I doing? While Mercer and I certainly disagree about some matters, our conversations mostly remained civil, at least in my memory, and I’ll own the responsibility for when things got out of hand and childish on my end. Shit happens.
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  28. Showed up for the dogs at LA city hall meeting. Kazu Nori My children
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  29. I hope you break em off for all the monies @SMdoubleXLGood luck tomorrow!
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  30. Working on it guys... Trying to get the facility stabilized, which is where my focus has been for this last while. Definitely working on it though. Soon...
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  31. 1 asked some of y'all trashed but here it goes Juggalo. @fat ralphy @Ray40 @Mauler5150 @SMdoubleXL @morton @GucciCondom @Chanticleer @KILZ FILLZ @LUGR @mr.yuck @Joker @Fist 666 @MOOGLE? @Pfffffffffft @abrasivesaint @T4M* @cancelculttourist @CALIgula @Boris The Butcher far right
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  32. last day. son decided to be a rapper using GarageBand on his iPad. couldn't let these lyrics die. discovered I was gonna miss this by two weeks ahd time to kill so took local train to Kobe took shinkansen back to tokyo. Mt Fuji from Shinkansen then got to Tokyo and took a train to Haneda and Home. The end. Now that I've killed everybody's data if they are looking on a phone. Hope you liked. Schnitzel
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  33. somebody recommended a beach to me but they must have gotten the name wrong because it was utter shit hermit crabs everywhere had to refill the car and this was a bit hard until the attendant got out an English translation on his phone thank god he did because I had zero idea how to do it. never manged to tan at all. shisa shop
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  34. The next few days were kind of blended we didn't do much Okinawan flavor noodles let him have a taste of the local beer Went to a cave complex tourist village. GPS took us the strangest way we were driving through sugar fields and there was flooding everywhere Kids had a good old laugh at this claw machine session. went to the far south of the island because I wanted to get some WW2 sites visited. was a massive fail because my kids were being little turds and I didn't want to be disrespectful to the dead.
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  35. Took the kids to the massive aquarium in the north of the island. Reefs all around the island mean it’s great for snorkeling Was unbelievable how big it was Kids are big fans of pufferfish Whale shark These little eels hang out in the seabed Deep sea fish Saw this and knew it had to be posted here. Not sure if it validates what somebody was thinking but the combo of dogs and whales had be shown. Hotdog decked out like one of those eels On way home hit up a supermarket Awesome chips – if you see them try them (we never saw them again) Okinawan specialty goes back to the postwar period when the only land-based protein came out of GI ration packs. Spam and egg Onigiri. So damn good, has some type of toasted Miso sauce in it. Okinawan dishes have lots of American influence like these and Tacorice. But this was the winner random wedding on a beach Got home. Kids discovered wardrobes were a good spot to chill Forgot my beer in the freezer so it partly froze but the wide mouth can is a nice touch. Blackhawks or something flying out from Kadena base.
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  36. I’ll find time to be here more frequently. Last time I checked in I was living in SoCal, but currently living in AZ. 1.5 years now, I think… and I dislike it.
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  38. The 401k IRA thing is so important if you're not savvy with stocks and trading and Bitcoin or whatever is the thing of the moment... or are lucky enough to be born into family money. I'm not smart at all when it comes to this kind of stuff so I rely on folks who are to build my wealth for me. It's the best option that has been working for me. To put it in perspective, with my current employer I was able to immediately start contributing to a 401k on my first day of employment. After six years of contributing pre-tax dollars every paycheck my balance is over $100k... for doing nothing but showing up to work. I contribute 12% of each paycheck - mostly because I learned this lesson late in life (20 years ago) so I'm playing catch up, but if you're young you can start with 4% and trust me - you won't notice it coming out of your check. I have an IRA I've been contributing to for about ten years as well but I'm just talking about the 401k since most employers match up to 4% of your contributions (some do more, but most are at 4%). Meaning, if your annual salary is $50k your employer will contribute money out of their profits in the amount of 4% of your salary to your 401k, every year. Sure, that's only $2,000 but that's a free $2,000... for doing nothing. The shit part about all this, because we're talking money after all, is if the market crashes your accounts lose money. Not a lot but enough to make you angry. I feel like there should be a new thread about retirement savings. LOL!
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  39. Same here @Mercer. I could sell my home and move to middle America and buy a house outright, and afford to fix it up and make it mine, and have no mortgage payment. However my wife is a coastal gal so she needs to be within driving distance of the beach so I've had to shift my thinking. Which brings me to my thoughts on this: If you want to own a home you have to make that goal a priority. If you have debts, pay them off and start saving every spare dollar you have. You don't want ANY DEBT going into home ownership. Most lenders will let you know that up front and tell you that you need to pay off your debts before they'll lend you money. If that's not a possibility but you have a job and have been contributing to a 401k look into borrowing from your balance. Some 401k balances offer great home buying downpayment loans that is to your advantage. This way you're paying yourself back and not a bank, kinda. There's several first-time buyer programs out there as well that can help you fast track the process from saving to purchasing, a quick Google search for first time home buyer programs will give you a wealth of information and a good place to start. Hell, even taking the time to chat with a mortgage agent or a financial advisor (yep, adult shit) can help you reach your goals. I definitely understand that things are very different from when we first purchased our first home (23 years ago). The cost of everything has gone up and wages haven't kept up with that. So if your wages are the excuse for not getting you to a place where you can afford a home, but owning a home is a goal, then you have to create a plan to get there. It might take five years to get there (that's how long it took us to save for a downpayment) but if that's your goal then you have to focus on that. If it means living in a three bedroom apartment with others so that you have low rent, driving a cheap car that is paid off, and eating cheap food all to save as much money as you can, then that is the path. And if you're not interested in buying a home, or even care to, please... I'm begging you, start saving NOW for your retirement. If you work somewhere that offers a 401k start contributing to it now. Like, now. At least contribute the amount that they match (most companies are 4%). It comes right out of your paycheck and you'll barely notice the difference. Trust me. And if your company doesn't offer a 401k look into opening an IRA with a brokerage company like Charles Schwab, Vanguard, or Fidelity. Doesn't matter which one, just start now while you're young. And once you're fully invested in your 401k don't give in to the thoughts of cashing it out. If you leave the company to go work somewhere else find out if they offer a 401k program and then transfer your balance to the new one. And if they don't offer a 401k then transfer your balance to an IRA with a broker like one of the ones listed above. I'm absolutely serious with this. If you're expecting to survive on social security when you retire you're dreaming. Start saving when you're young. And fucking floss your teeth, you animals.
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  41. Yo brehs - I got that work out of class promotion I was talking about a few weeks back. Thanks for the encouragement. Hopefully my wide stance flex will mean that I can turn it into a permanent thing. /manageroner
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