Tony McNicol is a photojournalist based in Tokyo who has a great blog which covers his experiences both as a photographer and in Japan generally and, of course, always has great photos! Recently Tony did …
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Wisdom from the Ghibli Museum
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November Japan Blog Matsuri: What Japan Has Taught Us
As the hostess of this month’s Matsuri, I posed the question: What has Japan taught you about yourself or your home country? A few brave souls took on the challenge, dug deep and provided us …
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Get some Spirit in your Seasons!
One of the things I am really enjoying about living in Japan is re-discovering my love of and respect for the seasons, which had faltered somewhat due to various stressors and, frankly, living in Sydney …
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I don’t usually do this but…
Dennis at Dead Things on Sticks (one of my favourite working-writer blogs which often crosses into politics) calls our attention to this wonderful monologue from Craig Ferguson . This blog doesn’t often get political but …
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Is this really who we are?
I know I was going to be lighter today but once again the priorities of those in the society in which I live show through and I am disgusted and saddened. During investigations for a …
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The metaphysics of becoming multi-lingual.
Every Monday at 6pm and Thurs at 5:30 pm for the last few weeks, a 6ft, willowy Japanese woman named Akiko (written with the kanji meaning “bright”or “shining” & “girl”) comes to our humble flat …
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Sport is not above humanity.
Several months ago I was stopped outside my local supermarket by two wheel-chair bound teenagers in matching tracksuits with those oversized charity raffle tickets for sale. Having spent a disastrous 3 weeks of my own …
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Adelaide Festival of Ideas
A few weeks ago I added a bunch of podcasts to my RSS feeds on Google Reader and have loved listening to things I would usually miss when they are live (mostly from ABC Radio …
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CAN BAD MEN MAKE GOOD BRAINS DO BAD THINGS?
In my research on religion, religious phenomena, philosophy of religion “for my novel” lol I clicked my way through to this: CAN BAD MEN MAKE GOOD BRAINS DO BAD THINGS? Having followed the link from …
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May Day Epiphany!
How appropriate that this has happened to me on May Day ^_^ The new work I’ve been developing, that was tentatively titled “Nephalim”, has been gathering momentum – working away in the back of my …
