Look at Tokyo.
Tokyo, go go go go
This is Tokyo
I recently achieved this vista from the 45th floor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices, a dual-tower monstrosity best known for it's 45th floor gift shop called "Crank Trunk."
Though my subconscious debated the statistical likelihood of an earthquake while I was stranded at 202 meters, I wasn't so much struck by how small or insignificant I was, but rather how small and insignificant everyone else was. I was literally 202 meters 5 feet 8/1/2 inches tall and I felt a bit like Godzilla on a stool or Paul Bunyan with heels.
My head spun with the city's staggering immensity and I began to feel feverish and slightly omnipotent; I was both the protagonist and the author of this wee novella we call Tokyo. It was as if I could see into the future and then beyond, into some sort of neo-future where clever orphans and chimney sweeps rule the world with tattered, sooty fists.
It was time to go.
Thank goodness the elevator worked both ways and my ego deflated to normal height at ground level. Even to scale, however, I'm still taller than 80% of those around me.
Boo-yeah J-NBA, here comes trouble!
2 comments:
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I think I need to go to Japan so I can tower over a large group of people. It would be good for my self-esteem. At least I'm about 20x the size of my son, and 26 years older. He's got nothing on me, boo-yah.
Thanks for your kind words on my blog. It was a rather sad spectacle, and I agree-- all the political mumbo jumbo pretty much goes out the window when faced with the utter humanity of the situation. I imagine you had a front-row seat to things of that nature in Mexico.
Oh, and you're "About me" section is hysterical.
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