K, if you read anything today, read this: Enemy Women, Part 1: Left Behind. It’s a very insightful article posted on one of my favourite blogs, Feral Scholar. The author of the article has an excellent analysis of why verbal slurs against women are not just a personal issue, and women’s response to [...]
It’s interesting to see the different formation of masculinity here in china. Although they have their own set of arbitrarily assigned behaviours for the genders, what i notice the most is the “masculine” behaviours from north america that are lacking here. As a skinny guy, i’ve had to go through a lot of [...]
Hey all, i just noticed that i can’t get to facebook today. I was able to get there just fine yesterday when i was off in shanghai, and i’ve had no other problems since i arrived here in april, but now today it’s broken and greatfirewallofchina.org seems to agree with my assessment. I [...]
ugh, i just got back from an Indian buffet place…i just about ate myself sick. it was soooooo tasty. At least it was a nice temperature outside…only 30C right now, now that it’s dark. It’s been pretty deadly lately, about 36C every day before noon with high humidity. I’ve been trying [...]
There were a couple of moments today where i paused to think for a bit while reading some interesting articles. I thought i’d blurb them out here:
We’ve all seen the ritual many times by now on the Ten and Eleven O’clock News. Local U.S. Soldier X has been killed by an IED or a [...]
quick link of the day…i just read this very well worded statement of outrage from Orlando Food Not Bombs: A Statement from Orlando Food Not Bombs on the Arrests of Our Comrades. It never ceases to amaze me that city governments will harass and attack people who feed the homeless. I guess the [...]
I wonder if there’s a “how to learn languages” book around somewhere? i haven’t seen one, and i’ve been mostly making up my strategies as i go. Perhaps this is a job for one of those “wikibooks” on the wikipedia associated sites. They have some for “learning german”, “learning french”, etc, but [...]