A Voice of Reason in the Abortion Debate
I'm pro-choice, I consider myself generally feminist in my way of thinking, and yet, I have read things that make me ashamed of DailyKos and questioning the level of esteem I still held it.Its not the...
View ArticleFootball Live Blogging!
The 13-3 New Orleans Saints are playing the 11-6 Arizona Cardinals at the Super Dome in New Orleans.I hope most people here are rooting for the Saints, not only because they are a very fun team with...
View ArticlePonderings on a Lakeside Reflection
I'll just give a brief introduction. I was recently, at the end of last semester, asked to observe Octavio Paz's style of writing and how he went about defining and understanding what it meant to be...
View ArticleCongratulations Mitch Landrieu!!! (Updated)
I'd like everyone to Congratulate Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu on winning the New Orleans Mayoral race by a landslide! After 4 years of remorse on the part of the voters who helped send...
View ArticlePlayoff Thoughts, Draft Picks, and The Future Of Brett Favre
Has the 2010 Football Season started yet?
View ArticleBreaking: Evan Bayh Validated in New Poll
Earlier today Senator Evan Bayh announced his shocking retirement, stating:"Two weeks ago, the Senate voted down a bipartisan commission to deal with one of the greatest threats facing our nation: our...
View ArticleBooks you Should be Reading: First Edition
There have been several great front page series on various genres and authors that we should all be checking out, run by Mark Summers, and users such as pico and cfk have run great series on online...
View ArticleFlying Over Sonny Liston
Flying Over Sonny Liston By Gary ShortGary Short’s Flying Over Sonny Liston, published in 1996 by the University of Nevada Press, and awarded that years Western States Book Award for Poetry, is a work...
View ArticleMinnesota! A Day at the Courts
It seems more and more likely that Minnesota's Congressional Map will be drawn for the second decade in a row by the legal system. (As seems likely for Colorado, the way Republicans there in the State...
View ArticleKangaroo Notebook, by Kobo Abe. What we talk about when we talk about...
Kangaroo Notebook, by Kobo Abe. What we talk about when we talk about Nightmares.Kobo Abe was one of the seminal writers of Post-World War II Japan. Born in Tokyo in 1924, and spending much of his...
View ArticleThe Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs: Not Worth Finishing
I gave Burroughs a fighting chance with this novel, bought from a discount bookstore, perhaps because I was interested by a deceptively intriguing summary on the back. But I gave him a fighting chance,...
View ArticleKenzaburo Oe
Of all the modern Japanese writers, it is hard to find one more shockingly underrated and less known in the western world than Kenzaburo Oe. I went to a bookstore in Jackson, Mississippi several months...
View ArticleThe Manga-Anime Thesaurus
No, no, if this wound up in your feed, it is not a mistake. I usually write about political horserace's/redistricting, or, these days, about books and writers. This particular post is for the Manga And...
View ArticleManga You Should Be Reading: Shoujo
First off, too all those who might be following me for my literary pieces, I’m still on break from that. As it is, I haven’t posted a diary in a few weeks due to combination of laziness and other...
View ArticleManga You Should Be Reading: The Other Side of Shoujo
Last week, (or thereabouts, time seems to slip away from me quite easily and quite quickly, amazing what procrastination can do), I wrote my disorganized shtick on Shoujo mangas, highlighting some of...
View ArticleStarship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Robert Heinlein, born 1907, died 1988, was one of the foremost early science-fiction writers, and one of the first to break into the mainstream with his work. Alongside Isaac Asimov and Arthur C....
View ArticleThe Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
I recently came across someone who, following my statement that I found Yukio Mishima, the controversial militarist Japanese writer, who, after the spectacular, and tragically stupid stage play he...
View ArticleManga you Should be Reading: Shounen
I’m done with Shoujo for a while, and am moving on to its natural successor in my series: Shounen manga. Shounen, Japanese for boy, is, obviously, directed towards a younger male audience. And as one...
View ArticleRashomon and 17 Other Stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
As far as translations go, I can offer few criticisms of Jay Rubin’s ordering and selection of short stories by the noted Japanese author Akutagawa Ryunosuke, (Japanese order) born March 1, 1892...
View ArticleNip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo
I've been meaning to post this for quite sometime. It kept being put off due to the bits of editing I didn't feel like doing and uncertainty about posting. My passion whipped me up and the result ended...
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