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yes when family comes to town, I get lots more peanut butter than I can probably eat for a long time. The tubs are super family size. I did not see any other folks on the yamanote line with a walmart bag and 4 american pounds (1.81kg canadian) of skippy inside.

What else about my recent times? Well, I like my new Leica more than I thought I would. The slightly defective shutter speed dial will get fixed and that is covered by map camera’s warranty. For that kind of money, it had better work perfectly. Later this month I will get my Bessa R2 back from the shop.

Yesterday I went to the Tokyo Metro Musem of Photography to see the show I saw a few weeks ago. Walking through Daikanyama, I found one of those overpriced yet beautiful artbook stores, the kind with oversized books to the ceiling on white shelves with dark wood floors, 12 foot glass doors with acrylic clear door handles and two beautiful arty girls behind the counter. The kinds that wear their hair up and have boxy glasses with long wool pleated skirts. I bought a photo book on the spur of the moment, and paid twice for what it must go for in the states. The book is ” No Title Here “, a collection of photographs by Jeff Mermelstein , published by powerHouse Books. Everyonce in a while I come acorss work that hits me and forces me to re-think what I am working on, and that’s what this book did.

>>>>Update! The forementioned bookstore is called hacknet.

Does this camera get you excited? Have you ever read through or been a part of a select niche forum on the internet? I don’t pay the dues or anything, but sometimes I have been known to post something on the photo.net Leica Forum. Handling a not yet released rangefinder camera and then writing about that experience is something most people in the world would’nt care about but here it gets people a’talking.

>>>>>>>UPDATE !

You probably think I am a nerd from that post, and you are right. Hoo boy but check this one out.

There is a new coke machine near my apartment, in a row with a lot of other machines across from super seventies awesome happy all-girls high school. The new coke machine has a flat-panel tv screen and a button to use to select things that has a cartoon bunny rabbit on it. And after you buy a coke a tv commercial comes on and has a chimp in a shirt and no pants buying cokes with a bulldog in a shirt and no pants.

I do not find this odd at all.