[caption id="attachment_2427" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="photo: Yamasaki Koji"][/caption] From now on, whenever someone scorns my love of pigeons, I'm going to link them to Mike Tyson's Bird Week essay on the NYT's City Room blog....
Between the Bars is blog platform for prisoners, taking their handwritten and typed letters and scanning them for publication on its site. Its aim is to provide "a positive outlet for creativity, a tool to assist in the maintenance of social safety nets, an opportunity to forge connections between people inside and outside of prison, and...
Put together in a hurry by dozens of pro and amateur writers, translators, and editors shepherded by an unnamed Brit in Kanto, 2:46: Aftershocks (known by its hashtag, quakebook) doesn't promise an Underground-style meditation on the Great Tohoku Disaster but an aggregation of international gut responses, with 100% of sales revenue going to disaster relief in...
Everyone's cringing, but I've never found the Prince to be more charming. Plus he has a really original take on the snake. via the Daily Beast...
Yoshiko Tanaka (at right in the first image), best known as Sue-chan from the '70s idol group Candies and from her starring role in Shohei Imamura's Black Rain, passed away last week at age 55 after a battle with breast cancer. In a final farewell, recorded from her hospital bed and played at her funeral Monday, she tearfully...
The trailer for Eric Khoo's Tatsumi, an animated feature celebrating the father of Gekiga comics, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, which screens at Cannes next month....
After seeing Fyodor Khitruk's interpretation of Milne's old bear, I wonder if I'll ever watch the Disney version again. Although, there's something to be said about the Disney Pooh in Spanish. The chorus from the intro canción gets me every time: The Japanese and Swedish versions are pretty good, too....
For your own sake, mute the sound before hitting play and consider right clicking here. I can't tell if this will help or hurt the fearful flier but the auroras are beautiful....
I just learned something I wish I hadn't: Before Southern California's Top 40 AM station the Mighty 690 switched formats in 1961 to 24-hours news, it played this song for three days straight. So, of course, I wanted to know what that was like. Just a few rotations in and I think my brain is sufficiently...