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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mini Review: Bulgakov’s A Dead Man’s Memoir
Recently, a friend gave me a copy of Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Dead Man’s Memoir. As Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is one my favourite books, I eargerly dug into A Dead Man’s Memoir. It is a different ...
Americana Culturama: Red Dawn and the Reagan Era
Americana Red Dawn and the Reagan Era View more presentations from danielriveong. A few months ago, my friends held an “unconference” for our friends to learn more about the US Pop-Culture in the 80s and ...
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