Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 5, 2020)
...bags of shrimp from a local supermarket by stuffing them down his pants A reflection on the contentious issue of "food authenticity" Food manufacturers in Japan add theme parks to...
Humid, All Too Humid
...Earthquakes in Japan, Thailand, Chile, Pakistan, Haiti, etc. were the result of global warming? Only pseudoscientists have answers, which are about as compelling as religious fanaticism. And those condemned Bangladeshis,...
Dispensing God's Care
Left critiques of the AHCA or Trump’s budget often miss the unique religious goals they serve.
Batter of Perception
...Illustration from Fairy Tales from Far Japan (1908) So mucked up with kneading dough she is she has to use her wrist to push her hair back from...
Solitary Confinement
...exotic, Shaw asserts that this perception "relies upon a viewers inchoate expectations of what a given culture's type should look like," built over time as the font is used on...
Sunday Reading
...of staff-driven unionism "A new, disassembled, fitting-and-starting labor movement." How to make up and spread a "weird Japan" story Local knowledge, bad press, and the future of Fukushima agriculture...
Grudge Lust
...oneself with Shakespeare, Whigs, Tories, and Reformers all (perhaps most of English culture and many Englishmen), his former friends, and, most of all, himself. Midway through the essay, Hazlitt writes,...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...in Eastern nations like China, India, and Japan. But even there, it wasn’t no Aryan princesses being lauded as the most attractive. This faux science posits all the history and...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.12.13
...plan is job-cutting—and exiting some markets entirely, including Ireland and Vietnam. Financial analysts applaud the move. Beauty tech: Beauty appliances are booming in Japan, which means someday soon we Americans...
Review: Girl Model
...and getting no work—despite the agency’s promise of at least two jobs during their stay in Japan—they think to examine their contracts. Lo and behold, if they gain a centimeter...
How Can You Watch That Stuff?
...Society almost succeeded in driving the combined imperial powers of the U.S., Europe, and Japan out of China. Capoeira, the Brazilian fighting style which looks more like dancing than combat,...
Sunday Reading
...(the) English in Current History Writing East India Company ship routes China & the Ancient Mediterranean World Sounding Islam in China Chinese Muslims & Shari’a Persians & Indians in Japan,...
Built to Last
...as unoccupied as they look. They were very, very empty. RB: How then do these stadiums figure into local culture? JMS: A couple of the big complexes are actually south...
A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops
How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north
Hello, Round of 16; Farewell, Hair We've Left Behind
...in splendor. Your World Cup journey continues; 'tis a pity your World Hair Cup voyage must stop here. Keisuke Honda, Japan. Position: Forward. Hair: Remarkable. Keisuke Honda, as with...
Sunday Reading
...uncontacted tribes Return of the blacklist? Cowardice and censorship at the University of Illinois The definition of academic freedom, for many, does not accommodate dissent. Nothing Unintentional Multicultural Japan? Discourse...