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Tokyo big sights

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Tokyo, 2007.08.01

There's a place in Tokyo called "Tokyo Big Sight". It's some sort of event venue. It goes along with "Tokyo Random Walk", a bookstore, in the general sensibility of the way things are named.

Anyhoo, the big sights this morning on the way to work included a garbage truck getting by on the sidewalk, a man lifting a boxed fridge off of a truck by twining his arms into the yellow nylon strap things that hold the box together, and small thunderstorms that seemed to target 50m x 50m patches of the city.

rand()m quote

In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

—David Graeber