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We finished getting our tattoos around 11:30pm and came out into a bustling neighborhood. It was a Monday night and everyone was partying, like it was New Year’s Eve, but it was just Monday. Old women, salarymen, hot chicks, hipsters. We saw a salaryman passed out on the subway back to Shinjuku. One of his shoes was 4 feet away and his sock was pulled halfway off. He was leaning over and sprawled out. No one bothered him.

When I visited Edward in Berlin, he would go to the Kohlekeller and bring up a few bricks, put one of them into the ceramic oven in his bedroom, and light it. A single brick burned slowly the whole night, keeping the room very warm. By morning the embers would be very small.

When visiting Turtles Beach on the O’ahu north shore, I swam into a school of Hawaiian Bobtail Squid. The ones that use bacteria to shine little lights at night. They were way cooler than the turtles. Two of the squid had some of their tentacles positioned to look like little horns. The rest of the school were shaping themselves like bullets. They were shy, but flashed different colors when I swam near.