Only a Blockhead Vox 2008-07-02T06:50:54Z Only a Blockhead http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4143e4afd685e/ "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." Death of a Vagabond tag:vox.com,2008-06-30:asset-6a00d4143e4afd685e00fae8c7ae2e000b 2008-06-30T15:08:39Z 2008-07-02T06:50:54Z Only a Blockhead http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Inoue Takehiko's serial manga Vagabond reimagines the life of legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. For the final episode, Inoue chose a larger canvas, laying out the death of Miyamoto in Tokyo's Ueno no Mori Museum. Visitors walk through the sto...

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]]> Alessi tag:vox.com,2008-06-29:asset-6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa96838ca00003 2008-06-29T22:21:26Z 2008-06-29T22:21:26Z Only a Blockhead http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Alessi

—NC Tate

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]]> A Thursday in June tag:vox.com,2008-06-27:asset-6a00d4143e4afd685e00fad69459420005 2008-06-27T03:54:49Z 2008-06-27T03:54:49Z Only a Blockhead http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom At twilight the sky was thrillingly dark, promising thunder. Walking home I passed hydrangeas in all their varieties: white cones, blue and purple orbs, clusters of buds fringed with flowers. The rice paddies were mirrors studded with green tufts,...

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]]> Post-Car Japan tag:vox.com,2008-06-25:asset-6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa9682283d0003 2008-06-25T06:19:01Z 2008-06-25T06:19:01Z Only a Blockhead http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Yet another reason I love this place. --David

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]]> RIP tag:vox.com,2008-06-23:asset-6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa96811c000002 2008-06-23T21:49:44Z 2008-06-23T21:50:51Z Only a Blockhead http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom George Carlin is dead. There won't be another like him. —David

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]]> There Will be Blood in it tag:vox.com,2008-06-21:asset-6a00d4143e4afd685e00fae8c4cce3000b 2008-06-21T01:30:04Z 2008-06-22T21:02:40Z Only a Blockhead http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Remember how, during the run-up to the Iraq war, Bush's many supporters used to chant, as if it were a mantra: "It's not about the oil"? Remember how angry those war-mongers would get, even after the war had begun, when you suggested that their h...

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]]> One Wonderful Sunday tag:vox.com,2008-06-18:asset-6a00d4143e4afd685e00fad692adb60004 2008-06-18T22:37:39Z 2008-06-18T22:37:39Z Only a Blockhead http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom 6:00 alarm 7:00 riding the Shonan beach cycle path on past Enoshima crows, surfers, sunshine old fishing boats winched to the water and pushed off for a day at sea 8:00 fifth in line outside bills (celebrity chef Bill Granger's stylish seafront ...

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]]> Literature as Train-Wreck tag:vox.com,2008-06-15:asset-6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa967e6ece0002 2008-06-15T07:28:27Z 2008-06-24T04:43:03Z Only a Blockhead http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Beside a Burning Sea Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two: Dance and Dream

One of the nice things about reviewing books is that it sometimes pushes one to tackle books one wouldn't normally pick up. Often one is rewarded for doing so. On the other hand, every once in a while a book plunks into the mailbox which is so ...

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]]> Friday, mid-June tag:vox.com,2008-06-13:asset-6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa967df1190002 2008-06-13T12:59:37Z 2008-06-13T13:02:17Z Only a Blockhead http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom It was a week of pouring rain and bright sunshine by turn. Blowzy hydrangeas are the flowers of the moment, blooming blue, white and pink in gardens and hedgerows. Most of the paddies are planted with rice shoots that poke above the glassy surface...

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]]> Hachiko tag:vox.com,2008-06-10:asset-6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa967d07490002 2008-06-10T11:02:01Z 2008-06-10T11:02:01Z Only a Blockhead http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Hachiko

—NC Tate

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