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                                            February 24, 2017
                                            January  17, 2019

  Okay, yet another damn story about stuff.
  You've been warned.

  Let me tell you about our dinner dishes.

  What, still here?

  Anyway, once upon a time while living over on      I once wrote a guide to
  the SF side of the Bay, Dangerbaby and I were      San Francisco for
  doing one of our trips up to Clement street.       visiting freaks, with
                                                     a section for each
  We looked in on Kamei restaurant                   relevant neighborhood:
  supply, as we often did, and casually              Soma, Upper Haight,
  decided to pick up some dishes that we             Lower Haight, The
  both thought were okay: black on the               Mission, North Beach,
  bottom, two-tone green glaze on top: a             Chinatown, The Castro,
  light green around the edges with a                The Tenderloin...
  swirl of a darker green in the center.
  Brand name: Kotobuki.                              Once I'd covered the
                                                     obvious I felt like
  We gradually collected quite a bit of              it was already overly
  this stuff, without making a big deal              long, considering most
  out of it: tea cups, medium sized                  visitors were only
  dinner dishes, small bowls, large                  around for a few weeks.
  bowls, odd triangular dishes in two
  different sizes-- plus some small                  The irony was not lost
  non-Kotobuki knock-off dishes that                 on me though: when
  aren't as good but aren't too bad, in              Dangerbaby and I went
  small square and round shapes.                     out somewhere, more
                                                     often than not we were
                                                     going to neighborhoods
  These things became one of the constant            not covered in my guide:
  features of our lives-- they're another
  product that I somehow unconsciously                  Japantown
  assumed would always be available...                  Clement Street
  but now they're gone off the market.
  They aren't even very easy to find as
  internet orders.
                                                 ANIMISTS

     Looking at them now... they're actually
     amazingly beautful: the swirl of colors
     in the glaze has subtleties to it you
     wouldn't expect from an inexpensive
     consumer product.

       They have one drawback though:
       they're not microwave safe.

          You pay a penalty for
          that complex lightly
          cracked green glaze.




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