I just cleaned out my camera, meaning some newer pics will be added to my photoblog. (I expect to add more once I get a day free, especially my many pics from India.) But for now, all I’ve done is added nine new banners to the site. They’re on high rotation so you should...
Read more →For those of you who have been living under a rock, a quick explanation. A gateway drug is a drug which is known to lead to the use of “harder”, more damaging and addictive drugs. Gateway drugs are often seen as innocuous in and of themselves and it’s government flacks we need to tell...
Read more →Here’s an article about the hardships with foreign women face living in Asia. Some of it comes as no surprise to me, but anyway, it’s worth a read. This is a story that reinforces stereotypes that some people will reject, and other people, like Julie Sleva, will endorse wholeheartedly: For single Western men, Asia...
Read more →John Wendel sent me a link for a fascinating article by one Dave Cullen titled: The Depressive and the Psychopath – At last we know why the Columbine killers did it. . Seems as if everyone, from the popular media to the schoolmates, got it wrong. This wasn’t really a case of neglected kids,...
Read more →It seems, according to the Discovery Channel website, as if women baring their breasts in public was neither objectionable nor unfashionable during several periods of British history, including the 1600s. Funny how conservatively we portray history, compared to how it really was. And they would be amused, wouldn’t they, at the shock and scandal...
Read more →This week’s F5 question comes from among the Green Boogers in Laura’s extensive collection: I have a confession to make: I actually like watching those lame, cliche-filled success-story films. You know the ones I mean – girl works her way off the streets and ends up studying in Harvard; boy wants to dance his...
Read more →This morning, while listening to the album Tauhid, I was suddenly interested in Pharoah Sanders again, so I started looking him up online. I found a lot of junky pages but a few good things. Here’s one of them, a good little interview with Pharoah Sanders at JazzTimes. I mean, with an excerpt like...
Read more →An interesting—though too-short— piece on the clash between modernity and traditional identity in Japanese society and the advent of the “modern Japanese woman”. I find this fascinating as a comparison point with Korea. How could one be both Japanese and modern, if modernity is defined as Western? Were modernity and Japaneseness antithetical? Or could...
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