Only a Blockhead

Kotatsu

nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:12:08 +0900

A traditional Japanese house isn’t sealed and centrally heated in winter. The heat is localized in particular rooms. Or even a part of a room, which part might be a table with a quilt covering and an electric heating bulb underneath. This heated t...

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9.25

nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:16:12 +0900

NC Tate

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Sunset

nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:59:58 +0900

In the late afternoon after the storm, I looked up from my desk and noticed the house across the road was bathed in pink. Rushing to an upstairs window, I saw the western sky was rivers of crimson. Minutes later--by the time I grabbed a camera--it...

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The Greatest Athletic Achievement . . .

nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:31:00 +0900

. . . by a man on a psychedelic journey. —David

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Tear Down the Wall

nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:19:31 +0900

From Coyote Crossing: During the 28-year history of the 87-mile-long Berlin Wall, 136 people are known to have died attempting to cross it. That’s an average of just under five people a year. Since 1994, an average of 373 people have died attem...

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Storm on a Saturday morning

nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:17:35 +0900

A gusty wind roars up the valley, twisting the trees and bending the bamboo. The spiders webs under the eaves and in the garden hang in tatters. A fine, dense rain falls, then is whipped and carried by the storm. Clouds barely visible, gray upon g...

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Sunday, Hayama

nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:52:06 +0900

Sunday was warm and sunny and we made our way down the coast to Hayama. The local people were enjoying a slow afternoon on their beautiful, sheltered beach, picnicking, reading, playing badminton, jogging, strolling, walking the dog. We cycled al...

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Simply Capitalism

nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:35:01 +0900

Slavoj Zizek in the New York Times: Where does this resurrection of anti-Communism [in the former Eastern Bloc] draw its strength from? Why were the old ghosts resuscitated in nations where many young people don’t even remember the Communist ti...

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Sailors

nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:00:40 +0900

—David

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Hakim Bey

nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:50:59 +0900

Rick Fields believes that the current trouble with authority in American Buddhism arises in part from the attempt to transplant an oriental monastery/temple tradition into an occidental setting of laymen and women, neither monks nor priests. By...

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