A famous zombie!

Me at the zombie walk

Today a group of eight fairly young men came to our magic bar when I was there performing. One of them asked me: "Didn't you participate in the Sapporo Zombie Walk three months ago?" Indeed I did. He even had a photo of himself posing with me when I was in my zombie make-up, in his cell phone. Small world. And quite impressive of him to see that it was me, and to remember me.

Me today

I also asked a colleague to take a movie of me doing a silly trick using my t-shirt. I have bought a fair number of t-shirts with animals being cannibals, pigs eating pork, chickens eating fried eggs, cows eating beef steak, etc. Today I wore a shirt with a salmon eating salmon sushi with a sad face. Recently I have started using these t-shirts for magic tricks. These are not very sophisticated tricks, more of a silly gag kind of magic, but they are kind of cute I think. People seem to like them too. Here is the salmon version.

And here is the salmon:

Susukino Ice Festival, preparations

On my way home from my university, I passed by the main street of Susukino (our entertainment district). Next week there will be the Susukino Ice Festival, and the street will be full of ice sculptures and tourists. Right now they are cutting the sculptures and piling up ice to build the Ice Bars and Ice Karaoke Rooms.

Wireless keyboard

One of my colleagues seems to want a wireless keyboard. I think he is taking it too far, but who am I to judge?

Calligraphy

Food

I went to eat at Bottom Cafe, which has very good food at surprisingly low prices. They are open until 5 A.M. too, which helps when you have to work late.

Calligraphy

The owner, who normally does not work in the bar (he owns several other places too), was there working behind the counter. He also does calligraphy, and he wrote this for me to give to my parents. It is his imagination of a message I should send to my parents. This time, I can even read what it says. A year or so ago, he wrote me something that was his image of me or my personality. It was very difficult to read, even for Japanese people.

Soon Sapporo Snow Festival

Now it is only 3 days left until this years Sapporo Snow Festival starts, so they have started working even on the "small" sculptures.

Snow and bicycles

I used to ride my bicycle to work the first 5 winters in Sapporo, but since I broke my 12th bike two years ago I have not bothered to get a new one. Now I walk instead. Which takes 45 minutes instead of 20, but I guess it is good exercise. And you do not have to deal with things such as trying to find your bicycle after a day of heavy snow, like this day (we get quite a lot of snow in January and February).

Swedish waffles

When I had the flu I did not want to go out to eat, since I might spread the flu to innocent people. So I made waffles at home instead, with some of the waffle mix a Swedish friend brought to Sapporo.