He’s not the egg-man. Nor indeed is he the walrus. Instead, he’s the wonderfully silly, smartphone resistant, squid-man.
Photographs from a small group of islands
He’s not the egg-man. Nor indeed is he the walrus. Instead, he’s the wonderfully silly, smartphone resistant, squid-man.
Al says
Ha, that’s so random! One of those looks again too! 😉
Lee says
It was a surprise to see him. Clearly he was surprised to see me too!
Ken Caldicott says
Of course, anyone with a squidhead on is going to be surprised if anyone looks at him! Saw your mendicant friar in Ueno yesterday but the Peruvian pipe band had gone, thankfully.
Lee says
Haha, exactly!
Nice to know he’s still there as usual. And maybe even better to hear (or should that be not hear?) there was no unnecessary accompaniment .
cdilla says
You never know what you’re going to see when you’re out and about. Nor what words you will happen upon whilst traversing the interwebs. Mendicant – now my word of the week. Using it in context in a work email will be a challenge.
The weirdness continues with the line of road cones infiltrated by a cone of an entirely different sort. And the halloween bowl… or was it a photograph from a few months back?
Lee says
No, you really don’t. Definitely one of the beauties of living in a big city.
So many times cones have ruined a photo for me. They are seemingly everywhere, and their bright colours can often be too distracting. Thankfully not so bad in this shot. And yeah, well spotted. An older photo that I’d edited and then totally forgotten about.
Good luck with the email!
d.minnis says
I must live in the dullest town in the world (Arlington, Texas)…I NEVER see sights like this. I don’t know how you find them, or if they find you.
Lee says
I’d like to think they find me, but I cover a lot of locations and miles, so perhaps a bit of both.
For such a conservative country, Japan is also wonderfully eccentric, so sights like this are almost commonplace. Well, perhaps not commonplace, but at least not totally unexpected.
john says
Is he waiting to be beamed up to the squid squad or just taking a quick cephalopod selfie?
It has certainly put me in a B movie mood.
Lee says
Both, hopefully.
Cephalopod selfie. Wonderful. Wish I’d thought of that!
john says
…with his versatile cephalophone.
(you got the ball rolling with the photo, and he, with the headgear choice!)
Lee says
You’ve totally got me on this. Tried desperately to come up with a calamari related pun, but failed miserably…
john says
Hmm…. Call a Yuki? Call a Miho? Call a Mari?
(I suspect I have too!).
Lee says
Very, very good!
Hans Ter Horst says
Haha, so weird, only in Japan 😀
Lee says
He’s definitely quite a character.