The Dancing Toast

Found in the stacks

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:29:58 -0500

Found in the stacks

Relaxing for a change having dinner and reading in the park...

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:20:30 -0500

Relaxing for a change having dinner and reading in the park behind my apartment

The Londoner: Kinder Bueno Ice Cream

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:45:26 -0500

The Londoner: Kinder Bueno Ice Cream:

lyricsmore:

I MUST MAKE, BUYING AN ICE CREAM MAKER TOO JUST TO DO THIS

http://www.thelondoner.me/2013/04/kinder-bueno-ice-cream.html

OH SHIT

The trailer for Jia Zhangke’s film A Touch of Sin,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:22:07 -0500

The trailer for Jia Zhangke’s film A Touch of Sin, premiering at Cannes soon. Notable words in the trailer include “Based on true events” (like certain murders that were never solved and that high-speed rail crash), which is amazing considering China’s film censorship.

gulou: Rebuilding the Fengtongzhai Honey Cooperative — Funding...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:54:40 -0500

gulou:

Rebuilding the Fengtongzhai Honey Cooperative — Funding Campaign

The project:

On April 20^th, 2013, a devastating earthquake struck rural Sichuan Province near the city Ya’an. One of the two hardest hit counties was Baoxing County, home of the Fengtongzhai Honey Cooperative. Our project goal is to crowdfund the money for 100 beehives to rebuild and expand the honey cooperative. This project will help the community start down the path to recovery, while preserving the local ecosystem that is crucial to the giant panda.

How to Help: See the funding campaign page here for more information.

Via The Sinocism China Newsletter

This is relevant to basically all my interests…

stewardssons: A day may come when the courage of men...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:20:35 -0500

stewardssons:

A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship,

this is pm my response to neo-realists btw

"Oh you are just so cute when you threaten violence like that."

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:47:00 -0500

“Oh you are just so cute when you threaten violence like that.”

- someone’s going to find certain threats realized real soon

an interesting theme hit on while searching “shinzo...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:01:25 -0500

an interesting theme hit on while searching “shinzo abe” in the library database

foreignaffairsmagazine: Straight talk from Japanese PM Shinzo...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:47:39 -0500

foreignaffairsmagazine:

Straight talk from Japanese PM Shinzo Abe on Japan’s wartime record, Abenomics, the Senkakus, and more in our exclusive interview.

This is such an interesting read, especially considering the many, many reasons Abe has been in the news lately. The interviewer asks a ton of fantastic questions and even gets some substantive answers, notably on economic reform (and Japan’s decision to start negotiations through the TPP, which was the subject of a JETRO event I went to the other day) and Abe’s conservative nationalism. The TPP thing is especially interesting, though, because TPP is a free trade agreement, which would really hurt Japanese farmers, who get a shit ton of subsidies (very similar to US). The farmers are Abe’s main constituency and also the reason Japan keeps electing LDP folk. So it’s interesting that Abe is so supportive of it when his voter base is really, really not. It speaks to the idea that Abe isn’t just a crazy ultra-nationalist—he’s a pragmatic leader and might actually be able to pull Japan out of the recession (maybe! who knows!).

But also, on the subject of economics, the interviewer asks about how Abe will solve the country’s economic problems, citing the agricultural subsidies, Japan’s sky-high debt, poor immigration, AND, the underutilization of women (something my professor writes a lot about). And interestingly, Abe addresses all of those concerns… except the one about women. Hmm…

Homemade RavioliIt’s been a while, hasn’t it? It looks like...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:24:36 -0500

Homemade Ravioli

It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

It looks like it’s finally spring here in Chicago. I’ve been…

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Frances Ha - dir. Noah Baumbach This looks fantastic, and...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:37:16 -0500

Frances Ha - dir. Noah Baumbach

This looks fantastic, and weren’t we just talking about the lack of real female friendships in film?

update on mystery drink from professor: it tastes pretty good actually, and @adam, it’s called...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:01:27 -0500

update on mystery drink from professor: it tastes pretty good actually, and @adam, it’s called lipovitan. i think it’s japanese, though?

No. 273 - 9/5/13

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:43:14 -0500

No. 273 - 9/5/13

No. 272 - 8/5/13 Wednesdays are mostly occupied by class, so...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:40:17 -0500

No. 272 - 8/5/13

Wednesdays are mostly occupied by class, so there’s never a lot of photos…

No. 271 - 7/5/13 Been a while.

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:36:25 -0500

No. 271 - 7/5/13

Been a while.

one of the last thing i have to do in revising a paper right now is give it a tile so i toggle over...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:21:53 -0500

one of the last thing i have to do in revising a paper right now is give it a tile

so i toggle over to the document

annnd there’s a title on it? last night contains many mysteries

unsungtale: thedancingtoast: Dayna showed me this band today...

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:04:49 -0500

unsungtale:

thedancingtoast:

Dayna showed me this band today and I am beyond in love with this song

kate you haven’t listened to this band before?? if i had known i would’ve beat dayna to it months ago.

i hadn’t! but goddamn, i’m so glad i do now and that, if dayna hadn’t mentioned them, there was a cosmic safety net, so to speak, where you might have eventually!

What I was up to earlier this morning, when I had the roads to...

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:38:42 -0500

What I was up to earlier this morning, when I had the roads to myself and watched the rising sun.

also i was at a JETRO event with the same professor earlier and the dress was really fancy business...

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:36:21 -0500

also i was at a JETRO event with the same professor earlier and the dress was really fancy business attire, and she thought we looked so nice that she needed a picture of me, my friend, and our classmate, and then she put it on facebook? i guess this means she likes us a lot? or something?

Not entirely sure what this is, but my professor found out I...

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:32:20 -0500

Not entirely sure what this is, but my professor found out I pulled an all-nighter last night and gave this to me. Apparently it’s a vitamin supplement that helps you when you’re body is physically vulnerable? I’m not sure, but what I do know is that this women is the best, hands down.