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Mini-Review: Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife
I’m a little behind my book reviews for The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin by Leonid Solovyov and The Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins. To catch-up, I’ll start on the latest book: The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht. ...
China says Europe encourages “sloth, indolence.” Meanwhile in Singapore…
Perhaps the old Conservative (and now Tea Party) concern about the “welfare state” has found a new friend…in China? Al Jazeera’s Teymoor Nabili recently interviewed Jin Liqun, the supervising chairman of China Investment Corporation, China’s ...
Reading List: Fast Food Orders & Technology as Job-Killers
While Occupy Wall Street goes global and sometimes violent (see Oakland), how much of the income disparity in the United States is due to technology hollowing out the American middle class? What has happened to ...
Intermission: Lana Del Rey
I’ve been too busy to post, so here’s this: If you’re confused and feel there’s something “too polished” or “too perfect” about her voice, her style, and her video, well there’s plenty of discussion about ...
Ding Ding Dong with your Vietnamese Coffee receipe
The Atlantic Monthly shared a video on how to make Vietnamese Coffee, but what struck me was the music. Check it out below. How To Make Vietnamese Coffee from High Beam Media on Vimeo. The ...
Payment Sent to Emmanuel Goldstein
Today, I decided to buy something from the UK, some clothing specifically. After checkout, I received a PayPal receipt from Emmanuel Goldstein to confirm receiving payment from me. The hated Emmanuel Goldstein? The head of the Brotherhood, ...
Mini-Review: Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
After finishing Mikhil Bulgakov’s A Dead Man’s Memoir, I found myself needing to move away from my beloved dead Russian authors to living and non-Russian writers. This took me directly to Haruki Marakami’s Kafka on ...