Sunday Reading
...for pilau 1940s US Army guide to Calcutta 1940s UK propaganda posters in Arabic The history of the chemistry set ReclaimUC: The Blum Center takeover manifesto Richard Blum, "Alpha...
Sunday Reading
...(and former law enforcer) takes on Yale Law Prof. The "“Tea Party Caucus” of corporate and securities law professors," and its rewards. What would Mirowski say? ReclaimUC: The New York...
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...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 14)
...masala sauce may have been sampled by seagulls before it had gotten to you All-beef burger but hold the cow? You got it, if you happen to live in Japan...
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...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.17.12
...not that my legs are a fraction as strong as Olympians')—when none of those features are particularly valued in our culture...yes, it feels sort of validating. Twenty-eight, looking great: Women...
The Future, Probably
...Overdrive were being written, Japan, as Gibson explains here, was "the global imagination's default setting for the future" ("Modern Boys and Mobile Girls"). That possible future may not be a...
An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America
...ordered a package of diaphragms, commonly known as pessaries, to be shipped directly from Japan to Stone at the clinic. The package was intercepted by customs officials, which led to...
This Week in Art Crime
...depiction of genitalia, which instead must appear censored or pixelated in film and photography. Despite this, Japan has a booming pornography industry, a strange dichotomy that Igarashi's artwork and subsequent...
Our Nukes, Ourselves
Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town
Party Time
...Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas. Antiques meant nothing — or trouble. The fervent modernist destruction of the past foreshadowed (and inspired) our postmodern passion for preserving it....
Defending Rojava
...but also the patriarchy and rape culture prevalent among their own community. After all, ISIS exploits the concept of 'honor' in the region, constructed around women’s bodies and sexualities. Thus,...
The Quiet Life
...efforts of its narrator. He is also named Jesse Ball, though he refers to himself throughout the manuscript as Int., for Interviewer. He has come to a village in Japan’s...
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,...
Kenya Will Never Was
...website, that one of the largest sources of funding is Japan, but the Kenyans’ refrain of “The West...” still remains. The journalists sound baffled. One chants the party line: Westerners...
So French
...beautiful, or is this all circular - we define "beauty" as that-which-is-French, giving those-who-are-French an advantage? Why not Japan, with its miracle hair-care products that I randomly discovered while shopping...