Greetings from Tokyo; local time: 5:17pm Saturday 29 Jan...my mind and body time: 3:17am last night. I should be sleeping with the princess and the cat but instead I'm quickly approaching 24 hours without sleep with the prospect of another 11 hours to go before my head hits a pillow. So it goes...at least I've got free potent Japanese beer to stew my ass before I head off to Bangkok in a few hours.

Best travel advice I've ever received...take a shower when you get to Narita. Narita has these cool little private and immaculately clean shower rooms, 30 minutes for $5US. So awesome. It's gone quite a distance in washing away the air fatigue...and what remains will be washed away by Asahi and xanax.

My fucking laptop imploded somewhere between the apartment and JFK this morning. Worked fine all morning at home but when I got to JFK and tried to fire it up: "a disk read error occurred". Something tells me this thing is toast. With 22 hours at 35,000 feet I had a lot of worked planned....now I'm left to horrible Kim Basinger movies (Cellular...William H. Macy should be ashamed of himself).

But anyway at least I'm clean...and getting drunk.

Wow, long time no bloggety blog. Man's got me down...many hours on the work clock, usually before sunrise and after sunset...but so it goes.

The long shot (barely tentative) Asia trip I mentioned a few posts ago has come to fruition. Not the round the world monster once conceived but just a simple week in Bangkok. With a three hour layover in Tokyo each way - one of the best parts of the trip...love the NWA lounge at Narita.

So, bad blogger I am not much to report. Wish for many exotic tales of excess from Asia...and none of bird flu or cholera. Fucking tsunami...

Here are a couple of fun photos with some cousins in town this past weekend. First, the wife (aka Meathead) from the king of all NYC mess halls.



And secondly, my dinky Canon Powershot S110, four year old 2.1 megapixel lo-fi apparatus on display at MOMA (form...function). Anybody wanna give me a few grand for it? It's art after all...



Cheers. Catch you on the other side of Bangkok.

This tsunami earthquake business is so huge. I never thought it would get so huge. But thankfully there are some excellent stories of survival coming out of it.

Oh yeah, happy new year. New Year's Resolutions you ask? Same as last year: more gambling, less Food Network; more vitamins, fewer ethylene variants; etc. etc.

And for good Google measure: cultofsteve.net

Cheers.