http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." en Vox Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:08:39 +0900 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/death-of-a-vagabond.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/death-of-a-vagabond.html?_c=feed-rss http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/death-of-a-vagabond.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:08:39 +0900 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/death-of-a-vagabond.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fae8c7ae2e000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> art manga vagabond inoue takehiko http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/alessi.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/alessi.html?_c=feed-rss http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/alessi.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:21:26 +0900 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fae8c77a3c000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fae8c77a3c000b-50si" alt="Alessi" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> —NC Tate <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/alessi.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa96838ca00003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> photography http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/a-thursday-in-june.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/a-thursday-in-june.html?_c=feed-rss http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/a-thursday-in-june.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:54:49 +0900 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,... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/a-thursday-in-june.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fad69459420005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> japan rainy season hydrangeas http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/post-car-japan.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/post-car-japan.html?_c=feed-rss http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/post-car-japan.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:19:01 +0900 Yet another reason I love this place. --David <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/post-car-japan.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa9682283d0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> japan cars demotorization http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/rip-1.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/rip-1.html?_c=feed-rss http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/rip-1.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:49:44 +0900 George Carlin is dead. There won't be another like him. —David <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/rip-1.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa96811c000002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/there-will-be-blood-in-it.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/there-will-be-blood-in-it.html?_c=feed-rss http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/there-will-be-blood-in-it.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:30:04 +0900 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/there-will-be-blood-in-it.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fae8c4cce3000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> blood lies oil iraq america http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/one-wonderful-sunday.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/one-wonderful-sunday.html?_c=feed-rss http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/one-wonderful-sunday.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:37:39 +0900 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/one-wonderful-sunday.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fad692adb60004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> cycling japan sunday shonan http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/literature-as-train-wreck.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/literature-as-train-wreck.html?_c=feed-rss http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/literature-as-train-wreck.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:28:27 +0900 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/book/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fae8c2fef2000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fae8c2fef2000b-50si" alt="Beside a Burning Sea" /></a> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/book/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fad690a0ac0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fad690a0ac0005-50si" alt="Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two: Dance and Dream" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/literature-as-train-wreck.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa967e6ece0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> books reviewing dreck http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/friday-mid-june.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/friday-mid-june.html?_c=feed-rss http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/friday-mid-june.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:59:37 +0900 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/friday-mid-june.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa967df1190002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> japan moon butterflies frogs hydrangeas rice paddies http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/hachiko.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Only a Blockhead) http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/hachiko.html?_c=feed-rss http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/hachiko.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:02:01 +0900 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa967d073c0002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa967d073c0002-50si" alt="Hachiko" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> —NC Tate <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://onlyablockhead.vox.com/library/post/hachiko.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4143e4afd685e00fa967d07490002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> photography