Jalan Jalan (94): Battered and Beaten Lantern in Front of a Neighborhood Izakaya - I see a smile, like on a jack o'lantern - Do you see it, too? Is this what they call optimism? - Why don't you write a song about this, Smokehowl?

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Photos and text from: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-kim-kardashian-kimono-trademark-cultural-appropriation-20190625-story.html?fbclid=IwAR145ONMcJTr5jllmFDojb2aq3fQxsE9mWgCdTfDHRYuzgR7Ymrhdh4gFw8

Jalan Jalan (47): Outside the Local Izakaya by Night and by Day

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