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Top 10 Movies Of 2018
2019-01-09 23:43
The final cuts were A Quiet Place and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. 1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout I was on a plane a few weeks ago when a man a few rows up in the aisle p… Read More
2018-08-24 17:06
Click to view slideshow. When I learned recently that my colleagues were heading to Tokyo for a conference, I had a visceral reaction that startled even myself. It was nostalgia, of course… Read More
Acknowledgments
2018-05-14 18:37
When I completed my dissertation in 2013, I felt a genuine sense of accomplishment. I was proud of what it represented – not just the work I had put in, but the period of my life it ca… Read More
2018-05-07 05:42
Avengers: Infinity War works precisely because it is nothing like The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron. The story is singularly focused, tightly structured. The villain is compelling. An… Read More
Things I Saved In The Fire
2018-04-04 08:59
There’s an oft-posed question: If your house were on fire, what would you save? Me, I’d grab my cell phone so I could contact my loved ones. My wallet for emergency provisions. M… Read More
The Lies I Tell Myself
2018-02-27 10:01
A Facebook acquaintance of mine recently left her job to start her own business. It’s a wine pairing thing. She’s hosted events, posted videos, started a membership club. It&rsqu&hell…Read More
The First Year Of The End Of The World
2018-01-18 23:02
A day after the Las Vegas massacre, there were reports of an active shooter at Fertitta Hall on the campus of the University of Southern California. Police arrived on scene and put the schoo… Read More
Top 10 Movies Of 2017
2018-01-14 21:21
I have to say I was ambivalent about a lot this year. The top five of the list below notwithstanding, I did not find many standouts (including among the arthouse favorites) – and indee… Read More
2018-01-01 14:44
Click to view slideshow. In an ideal world, I would set aside a fortnight for each of my vacations: a week to visit the major attractions in a place, and a week to experience daily life ther… Read More
2017-12-28 14:44
I wrote a screenplay once. I felt compelled. For starters, writing is one of the few things I both enjoy doing and seem to do fairly well – insofar that it has gotten me through my aca… Read More
2017-12-11 14:17
A Misunderstanding When I was living in Tokyo, I once tried to purchase tickets for a sumo wrestling tournament at my neighborhood 7-Eleven.* The ticket machine was only in Japanese, and I e… Read More
2017-11-19 20:56
It is hard to make friends. I’ve written around the subject before, discussing how my relationships have evolved, how they have been validated or discarded. Yet even in those introspec… Read More
2017-10-22 09:36
Venice is Disneyland. It’s impossible not to think of the parallel. Entering the city even necessitates a departure from the rest of the world, as a single bridge represents its lone p… Read More
2017-10-08 22:07
It feels different this time, the memories more distant yet more real at the same time. I’ve visited my hometown of Los Angeles before, when I lived in Boston, and again in Tokyo. True… Read More
I Love L.A.
2017-09-11 20:31
I love Los Angeles. I love it because it’s home, naturally. I remember sitting around once with a couple of friends in graduate school, and we talked about the kind of place we envisio… Read More
A Day Without Internet
2017-08-29 13:10
It’s only one day. Not even a full day at that. From about 8:45 am to 7 pm, maybe even 9. But for that stretch of today, for that stretch of right now, I’m at an international co… Read More
A Notepad
2017-08-25 18:58
I’ve had this notepad for about four years now; I bought it in a 100 yen shop in Tokyo – the equivalent of a dollar store there. It’s small, just about pocket-sized, that i… Read More
Suspended In Midair
2017-08-21 10:11
Already I’m annoyed. There’s a group of about 30, strewn across the grassy area where the bridge ends (or in my case, begins). They’re Americans of course. I surmise this b… Read More
Switzerland: Year One
2017-08-11 19:42
Click to view slideshow. I have written previously about what Geneva is like as a city, and what Europe feels like for an expat. This entry – as with my Japan recaps (years one, two, a… Read More
Ambition, Restlessness, Progress, Purpose
2017-08-01 14:43
Growing up, my sister and I had divergent approaches to collecting souvenirs. We had to strategize for a reason; we couldn’t get everything we wanted, after all, give our family’… Read More
2017-06-29 03:46
I had a conversation once that I recognized was profound only in retrospect. She was a casual acquaintance – we had met through a dating site, and though there was no attraction on eit… Read More
2017-05-30 06:03
A few years ago, looking to furnish my new shoebox apartment in Tokyo, I made my rounds of the secondhand shops in the area. At one place, a little far from home, I spotted two super-cute vi… Read More
2017-05-22 22:06
I met him six years ago in Boston. He was my officemate. We had to feel each other out a little at first, the environment being what it was. But we became fast friends: hitting happy hours… Read More
2017-05-18 10:20
I love going to the East Coast. I never fail to be taken by the sense of history that envelope those cities. There are the obvious landmarks, of course, the walk along the Freedom Trail… Read More
2017-04-28 15:41
Telling a drunk story entails risk. For those who weren’t there, who weren’t involved, the recounting is never as enjoyable. Their appreciation – if it is to be found &ndas&hell…Read More
2017-04-24 12:20
A couple of weeks ago, I went and saw the latest installment of The Fast and the Furious. It was a memorable trip, even setting aside the merits of the movie itself. See, for the first time… Read More
2017-04-18 14:50
On my worst days, I indulge my narcissistic tendencies. I wallow in self-pity. I linger on my myriad flaws. I feel painfully insecure. I can’t remember the last time I flew with any… Read More
2017-04-02 23:12
I like shitty music. Art is subjective, I realize, and I actually do like my music very much, but I am the first to admit that my sensibilities leave much to be desired. My album collection… Read More
2017-03-20 14:05
What is it about family that can be so frustrating, difficult, even infuriating? My mom sometimes reminiscences about how patient, how obedient, how “good” I used to be, wonders… Read More
2017-03-05 17:53
A few years ago when I was living in Boston, my friend Jim and I ran into a mutual acquaintance on the train. Neither of us particularly liked this guy. He was the stereotype of an Ivy Leagu… Read More
2017-02-24 19:52
The context I was all of eight years old when my cousin, quite irresponsibly, took me to see Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It was one of the first theatrical experiences I can recall, and stil… Read More
2017-02-20 14:10
When I first floated the idea of going to graduate school, I was a third year in college, visiting one of my teaching assistants at his office hours. His office was literally the size o… Read More
2017-02-13 20:14
And now, for something completely meaningless… In May 2015, news came out that Warner Bros. had greenlit a new version of the 1993 action-thriller The Fugitive. There was scant d… Read More
2017-02-06 13:39
It is impossible to get away from it. The guide for my bike tour brings it up, unprompted, in the context of the upcoming Dutch elections. “We have a Dutch Trump,” he says with a… Read More
2017-01-27 16:32
Every day, it’s something. My friend started a Google Doc to chronicle it all. I’m not quite sure why. Maybe it’s to remind us that this isn’t normal. Or it might be… Read More
2017-01-18 10:31
As in the case of the past few years, living abroad has limited my access to arthouse films in general (even if I’m not a particularly arthouse-y person). For the record, the final cut… Read More
2017-01-12 11:42
In the midst of my grandmother’s final days, I couldn’t help but think about how different her life had been from mine, how everything she had been through had made things possib… Read More
2017-01-06 14:35
By the time I was three or four, I only had one surviving grandparent – my dad’s mother. I have pictures of our family visits, though my memories of those are quite spotty. When… Read More
2016-12-30 10:04
(1983-2015) She was pretty and smart. And she had a unique name that I still remember. We were in first grade. But my friend declared his own crush for her first. So I kept quiet. It didn&rs&hell…Read More
2016-12-15 16:14
My second year in Boston, I lived on the third floor of this cute little multi-family home in Brighton. I found it on Craigslist just in the nick of time – and ended up with two guys w… Read More
2016-12-07 11:53
I should experience the summer, I’m told. This in fact has been an almost universal refrain from denizens in Geneva, with the implicit – and sometimes not-so-implicit – sug… Read More
2016-11-23 21:21
Three years later, I am back on Facebook. It’s strange, bittersweet even, to see how much people I once considered friends have changed. Children appear that I knew only as infants. Ch… Read More
2016-11-10 21:59
I can’t begin to sort through all the thoughts in my head. So I doubt I’ll be able to do so successfully on this page. Where do I begin? I’m privileged. Let’s start t… Read More

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