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Academic from UK, teaching English Literature in North East Japan (Tohoku).
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It’s cat day today! ((Neko-no-Hi (猫の日)): 2/22 = nyu, nyu,nyu( meow) Instead of a cute book about cats and coffee shops, here is a song about a cat, curry rice and the death of Yukio Mishima youtu.be/ZH9qxETBsG8?...

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From the Tumblr regime to the 4chan regime. I might quibble with the periodisation but the point is right. "Perhaps a better way of putting this would be to say that politics at this point just is online adolescent jouissance". www.the-hinternet.com/p/my-kind-of...

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I hoped never to hear from Seb Gorka again after 2020 but he’s back with that BBC interview ( credit to Victoria Derbyshire there, but why should I link?)

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Undo the Glasgow block?

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Thanks David Lynch: my friends and I saw Mulholland Drive at the Duke of York cinema, Brighton before the reviews came out, and so were unprepared for such a strange, sad and disconcerting film. And such a lovely man in life, it seems.

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There is a slight degree of gatekeeping and entitlement in this piece ( “I was here before you!”) but it touches on a truth: “soft power” was intended for exports, but now the sinking yen has made Japan a cheap(ish) tourist destination, how should communities best respond?

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Be like Japan then? Zero growth in decades ( and depressing, sclerotic politics) but maintain good living standards and infrastructure while you work out where you want to go culturally.

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The speed with which people successfully mobilised against the declaration has been impressive. It was a bizarre night.

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A shock

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Just announced that writer/director Jim Abrahams had died: Airplane, Top Secret and Police Squad are, I suspect, "dated" in many incriminating ways but at the time they were the successors of Mel Brooks' comedies and many of us can still quote from them.

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Shame to hear this about my first university, which was a good experience for me. Perhaps it had a problem with its location in England, as well as the unfair dilemma of other non-RG 1960s institutions. Solidarity to all.

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Sad news about the redoubtable John Prescott. My only encounter with him is when he was guest quizmaster at some NOLS event around 1991.

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Zao onsen in Yamagata this weekend

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Sad and disturbed by the sudden death of the music writer Neil Kulkarni, as reported today. I enjoyed his impassioned and knowledgeable commentary of pop, hip hop, alt-rock, and growing up with Top Of The Pops.

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One of the oldest original buildings in Japan : the Kozo-Ji temple (1177) in a quiet part of Miyagi prefecture.

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One of the most enjoyable poetry translations of 2023: Saito Sanki, 20th century dissident haiku poet, translated by Saito Masaya ( no relation), Isobar Press. All the youths/ with hands in pockets- / cloudy sky over cherry blossoms

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New year, new account, see how it goes ( That is from the local New Year festival)

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