November 2011
27 posts
October 2011
14 posts
“This middle class is less about ‘what the state can do for me’ than ‘the state is preventing me from doing what I want to do.”
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Devesh Kapur, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania.
Protests Awaken a Goliath in India
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“[D]emocratization meant not the ‘commonerization’ of the samurai class but the ‘samuraization’ of the commoner.”
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Ueno, Chizuko. “The Position of Japanese Women Reconsidered,” Current Anthropology28 (August/October 1987): 78-79.
P.S. Japanese social linguistics is the stuff dreams are made of.
P.P.S. Samuraization is my new favourite word.
Comics
Okay, so I read comics. Not just Japanese “manga,” but good, old-fashioned comics from America. And before someone tries to tell me that the Japanese understand comics better or that I am missing something, let me point out that I also read manga (and now even create it).
Reasons I love comics:
1) I learned to read from Detective Comics and Metal Men, not just boring little picture books.
2) As much as I try to escape it, I’m still American, and there’s still something about American storytelling that really resonates with me.
3) Color. I love manga, and I appreciate the black and white contrast as much as any (if not more sometimes) than most film studies majors. But there’s something about the color and the traditional, realistic yet totally surrealistic feel that goes with reading a comic in color.
Now that that’s all done, here are the new releases for the DC Comics that I am currently reading/indulging myself in:
Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. (read more)
Batwoman #1 by J.H. Williams III, Haden Blackman and Amy Reeder (read more)
Red Hood And The Outlaws #1 by Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rocafort (read more)
Nightwing #1 by Kyle Higgins and Eddy Barrows (read more)
Batman And Robin #1 by Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason (read more)
Birds Of Prey #1 by Duane Swierczynski and Jesus Saiz (read more)
Teen Titans #1 by Scott Lobdell, Brett Booth and Norm Rapmund (read more)
Batman: The Dark Knight #1 by David Finch (read more)
Deathstroke #1 by Kyle Higgins, Joe Bennett and Art Thibert
Suicide Squad #1 by Adam Glass and Marco Rudy
Detective Comics #1 by Tony Daniel (read more)
Let me point out that I have absolutely no money left, but am totally happy. :)
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Weird Day
Things that should have gone well didn’t. Things that should have gone bad didn’t. My head hurts, but that’s not the part of me that hurts. Weird Day.
