"yellow dots animal"

Here's an example of things being utterly random. (This is going to be a main theme, there's really no escaping it.) In fact, I only took a picture of this because last week had three or four giraffe synchronicities, and it seemed important to document. Seems as good a place as any to start with.

So last Friday's event du jour was the city-wide photo scavenger hunt, one of many Habitat for Humanity fundraisers happening this month in Osaka. (A bunch of the peeps are going to spend spring break in the Philippines building stuff.) Half-hearted and half-assed and annoyed at some of the lame-ass clues, my group of 4 went at it, but we eventually gave up, spending the next hours in an arcade before catching our respective last trains home.

Earlier in the evening, pumped after scoring my tickets to see the Foos, I met the teammates in one of the main department stores in the centre of it all, which has an entire store dedicated to the metrosexual men that dominate the cities here: Hankyu Men's. Imagine Pocky for Men, but like an entire building. Everything is black and white and gray, even the union jack on floor B1 is stripped of its colours. Ok, in any case, rounding the escalators up to the 7th I passed this display on one of the floors. There's not much more to it. Can't shed any light or offer context. Nothing was being sold here. It's a life-size giraffe, looking around a corner, near some elevators and a tinsel curtain. *sigh*