Attention Inventory: Off-Menu Asparagus, Hair Clips, Laundry Innovation

Plus music for stretching and other ephemera

Reassembling my brain after checking out in every way during two weeks in Japan. 

It feels good to find some distance, or to enforce it; makes it way easier to locate the clutter. 

Plenty of things are in the works, but until then: an inventory of the present tense that’s a little of this, a little of that. 

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PS: June prompts are incoming!

PPS: I’m not going to print any more of these workbooks—so if you’d like to scoop one up, I would suggest doing it somewhat soon. 

A TASTE: Off-Menu Izakaya

File this under—always evade easy explanation! 

I’m endorsing Narukiyo Izakaya’s off-menu side dish that combines one gently steamed (huge) asparagus stalk; a steamed tomato (halved); little dollop of kewpie; a tablespoon of the best textured, salty red miso you’ve ever tasted. 10/10 for striking the perfect ugly-beautiful combo. (It’s kind of the Tokyo equivalent of the Zuni Cafe appetizer mentioned here in a post with Blackbird Spyplane…)

Bonus points for general chaotic-good vibes at Narukiyo, no En…