Lost In Libations

I have no words for what we just saw. Jeff had told me that a few of our friends had been to the Robot Restaurant show and they all agreed it was bananas pants and they were not wrong. I still am not even sure what I just saw.  It was hilarious and weird and made absolutely no sense and it was also stressful because you were in a constant state of fear of being decapitated by a 'robot'. And the weirdness and stress continued once we left... Does anyone need a stress test? After the show I needed to eat my face off so we went in search of a ramen restaurant. The one we found had a machine like this to order from. It's really cool you just press buttons for what you want and pay and you get a ticket to hand to the cook and they just bring your food... Me in my happy place... FOOD!! After eating my body weight in noodles...again, we decided it was time to be homos and hit up the gay district which is in an area called Ni-chome... It'

As you know, Keith and I are currently living in a future filled with with digital art, super-toilets, and delicious sushi. So it should come as no surprise that this city has something called a "Robot Restaurant," a place that turns up on just about every "Things to Do" list in Tokyo. Several of my friends have visited this place and have all said the same thing: "Do not eat the food there," and "There are no robots."  These seem like strange things to say about a thing that calls itself  Robot Restaurant--especially since, in the same breath, everyone also said, "You cannot miss it." And so, Keith and I found our way to the Robot Restaurant for this can't-miss, food-free event. Although upon arrival, I began to wonder if the words "can't miss" actually meant that you physically can't miss it, since there are GIANT signs literally everywhere you turn for blocks and blocks and blocks... The first t