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...
Why Couldn’t Richard Aoki Have Been an Informant?
...considered a threat to national security and exploitable by axis powers, in particular Japan, who was promoting its own version of Black-Asian solidarity. As a Cold War strategy the White...
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,...
Thoughts on a Word: Fine
...songs about fine women is initially perplexing. Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Clarence Garlow, The Easybeats, Flash Cadillac, Big Boy Myles, Roscoe Dash—all of these artists have recorded a song entitled...
Core Values
...the trees accompanied by bawdy songs that they sang at the top of their voices. This they believed would summon forth fruit in overwhelming abundance. Chapman's unorthodox ways belied a...
Morpheus Descending
...father's approach to insomnia was likely the exception rather than the rule; most people at the time looked to less complicated remedies. Said Iago to Othello: “Not poppy nor mandragora,...
The Scent(s) of a Woman
...evanescent as a smell have a history and a culture?”) and (2) its current status as “girl stuff.” Comparatively, the study of wine—which shares a focus on smell and descriptive...
Run, Boy, Run
...about a hypocritical religious figure, could just as easily be read as a feminist or reparations revenge anthem. Typically, revenge anthems—like love songs—are too limited. Why punish one cheating bastard...
Not NATO
...Chicago, to cover the #noNato protests. Laurie sent me snaps and stories of her busmates: kids who were singing Disney songs as they prepared to be beaten and arrested. So...
Ramadan Diaries: Where's the Information?
...re-reading John Berryman's The Dream Songs, which I do or think about doing every day, I'm also reading Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Yogas of Dream & Sleep: Practices for...
Little Orphan Nellie
...turn up somewhere ripped and stoned and undercover and immerse yourself in a culture or practice, then write viscerally, from the brain and the gut. In fact, women were doing...
My David Bowie
...I can't imagine I would have asked for it. Still, I was deeply disappointed by it at the time. The spoken-word section in Japanese that opens the album put me...
St. Paul (A Screenplay)
...companions flee, in the midst of the chaos of the alley, among the little bars of the seaside city, with the lights on in the middle of the night, songs,...
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 4
...pinning it under me beside the car. It writhed and dripped and started singing broken snippets of my favorite songs, messing up the same words that I did each time,...
Africa : Queer : Anthropology
...more concerned in the anthropology of the changingAfrican, and in the anthropology of the contact of white and coloured, of European culture and primitive tribal life. A mentor told me...
"Never could I tell him it was him."
... Rufus being Rufus. By atp tyreseus [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Rufus Wainwright’s song, “The Art Teacher,” which I had the great joy of hearing live last...