2011-03-11 00:08
16/35/11 – CyberspacePolitical group Duh!Mocracy created a domino effect last week when it published a set of statistics highlighting racial, social and economic inequity in the United… Read More
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2011-03-04 18:38
The dish's namesake looks on...This is tasty, simple, relatively healthy and inexpensive pasta dish I recently started making with ingredients almost exclusively from Trader Joe&r… Read More
2011-02-28 00:03
2/31/11 – Important Foreign LocaleToday, an important even happened in an important place. Important people have gathered to comment on the gravity of this event, and stress its import… Read More
2011-02-23 15:43
So I was researching Tennessee employment law this morning and I came upon the following, very strange piece of legislation.Apparently, minors in Tennessee are forbidden from working in "Occ… Read More
2011-02-22 16:34
Hello and thank you for reading. I realize I haven't updated this space since the end of last year, but I have a pretty large caché of articles I plan on uploading over the next few m… Read More
2011-02-22 02:38
I've decided after more or less no deliberation but much procrastination to begin posting vegan food ideas on this blog. I've been a vegan for over four years at this point, excluding a brie… Read More
2011-02-21 21:47
The third immortal is obviously way more bad ass than the first or second if this video is any indication Read More
2011-01-18 19:01
Great video of Nas talking cassettes. Brings back a lot of memories of trying to record my favorite songs from the radio Read More
2010-12-11 19:02
For those of you who don't know, a quick summary: President Obama, presumably because he is afraid of not winning re-election, has partnered with Republican leaders on a new tax bill. This t… Read More
2010-12-06 00:27
Alfonso Reyes at the Museo Nacional de Arte Mexican intellectual Alfonso Reyes Ochoa tremendously impacted Latin American culture of the 20th century. His short story “La Cena” i… Read More
2010-12-04 19:31
I've decided for no particular reason that this weekend will be Mexican art weekend on this blog. I will be posting three or four articles over the next two days about seminal or underground… Read More
2010-11-27 18:05
Hello and long time no post. Many apologies for anyone out there who stops by regularly.I recently interview Senses Fail for College Gentleman magazine. For those unfamiliar with the group… Read More
2010-11-02 15:50
Is that it's a good thing, so go out there and vote, Americans! Read More
2010-10-05 22:18
A Guide to Some Upcoming Records That May SuckWith the summer pop blockbusters out of the way, record companies are beginning to churn out the albums they hope America will buy in enormous q… Read More
2010-09-18 16:59
If You Build It, They Will Come: The Bangladeshi Real Estate ExplosionMy discovery of the surreal world of Bangladeshi real estate was accidental. Fall of 2008 I was working a temp job at th… Read More
2010-09-14 21:47
Long time no update. My bad. I have a pretty lenght piece I'll be throwing up this weekend, about the real estate boom in Bangladesh, and what that says about false images of capitalism and… Read More
2010-08-15 16:37
This is a short piece I wrote for a magazine that was deemed a little too obscure to grace the publication's website. If the references in the intro paragraph to other articles intrigue you… Read More
2010-08-14 15:50
The English Premier League started up today, and I've had to witness a well-oiled Aston Villa beat the crud out of a creaky West Ham United. To make myself feel a little better, I've been wa… Read More
2010-07-11 15:43
Another Day, Another DespotThis is one of my all-time favorite, have-to-tell-everyone-I'm-talking-to-about-soccer/football World Cup trivia bits.Mussolini famously exploited the 1934 World C… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Shigeki Kamata is a 31-year-old high school math teacher. Thin and immeasurably kind, Kamata is a passionate devotee of classical music and devout violin player. Though he lives in Tokyo, Ka… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Vincent Cassell holds two masters degrees, speaks three languages and works for a major international corporation. Like the movie star shares a name with, Cassell is French. He lives the exp… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Around 2:45pm on March 11, 2011, Tokyo native Midori Hayama was at work at a clothing store in the northeastern part of the city. This is when the earthquake struck.Though the 9.0 quake dire… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
An article posted on the New York Times website today (6/17/11) attests to a well known fact: just because the media stops paying attention doesn't mean something isn't still happening.The r… Read More
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