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Creating Japan: The Truth About the Myth

[1.Feb.08] :. Separated lovers, a hero, a villain, creepy surrogates, immortal power, the wrath of the gods, a perilous journey to hell and back, a breakneck chase, daring escapes, fortune, and an ending that will make you cry yourself to sleep.

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ReDotPop

High Moon: The Japanese Western

[4.Oct.07] :. ReDotPop’s version of the western, the re-emerging samurai genre, serves as moral compass, as spiritual guide at a time when it is needed most.

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ReDotPop

You Are Where You Eat

[7.Jun.07] :. This is a story about food. Specifically, the transformative powers of the humble udon noodle.

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ReDotPop

Fishing for Deep Dot Pearls

[2.Feb.07] :. In many popular Japanese films, enduring elements of Japanese/US relations, endemic attitudes of superiority and equality among races, and volatile notions of convention and propriety are pitted against emergent, maverick, fun-loving difference.

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ReDotPop

The Saga of Sagi Society

[29.Sep.06] :. We ReDotPoppers find ourselves in the moment of con, in an age of deceit, trapped within the epoch of cheat, run-through by an ideology of insincerity. It is definitely time for a new Emperor, a Hisato, whose name includes virtue.

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ReDotPop   ReDotFlow: J-Pop That Would Hit Anywhere

ReDotPop   ReDotFlow: J-Pop That Would Hit Anywhere

ReDotPop   ReDotFlow: J-Pop That Would Hit Anywhere

ReDotPop   The Gist List: ReDotPop's Most Memorable Moments, circa 2004 (part 3 of 3)

ReDotPop   The Gist List: ReDotPop's Most Memorable Moments, circa 2004 (part 2 of 3)

ReDotPop   The Gist List: ReDotPop's Most Memorable Moments Moments, circa 2004 (part 1 of 3)

ReDotPop   ReDotBlueDotPop: At Home, Away

ReDotPop   The Trials and Tribulations of Parenting Adolescent Techies

ReDotPop   Can Pop Last Forever?

ReDotPop   WhiteDotPop

ReDotPop   DeaDotPop?

ReDotPop   DeaDotPop?

ReDotPop   SMAP: The Story of Everything

ReDotPop   Spy-day Night at the Fights

ReDotPop   The Great Wave

ReDotPop   The Noble Sarariman

ReDotPop   The Schizophrenic Collide-a-Scope

ReDotPop   In the Main It's More Than the Mane

ReDotPop   Aware of What They Wear?

ReDotPop   Consolidating Culture

ReDotPop   Mediations of Japan: Ashita ga aru sa

ReDotPop   Mediations of Japan: Japan's Beat Generation

ReDotPop   Mediations of Japan: The O-N Series

ReDotPop   Mediations of Japan: Brought to you by Public Transportation

ReDotPop   Mediations of Japan: Ranma

ReDotPop   Mediations of Japan: Food

ReDotPop   Sumo

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Peripatetic Postcards

You're In!

[30.Apr.08] :. That was the wording in bold, cursive 38 point script, scrawled diagonally across the letter-sized envelope. The exterior was a glossy affair, with a photograph of the UC Irvine administration...

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Reality. Now What?

[15.Apr.08] :. John A. Wheeler passed this week. If you haven't heard of him, he's the physicist who coined the word "black hole", along with "worm hole". Rumored to have invented the liver loaf on whole wheat,...

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Back from the Dead

[7.Apr.08] :. Where can a dead man go The question with an answer only dead men know . . . Nickel Creek, When in Rome "Don't expect any favors out of life, but . . . enjoy the hell out of 'em if they ever...

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Black Magic? Once!

[6.Mar.08] :. In San Francisco. Walking along Van Ness toward the wharf. Came across this nightclub exterior 'round 'bout the corner of Broadway . . . give or take a block or so. It got me to thinking --...

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Pine Coast

[27.Feb.08] :. According to G.K. Chesterton: a man may well be less convinced of a philosophy from four books, than from one book, one battle, one landscape, and one old friend. Taking a trip up the California...

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Peripatetic Postcards   Blog, After All: PCH pics and bits

Peripatetic Postcards   Buellton Bulletin

Peripatetic Postcards   Ventura Highway

Peripatetic Postcards   Super (Competitive) Society

Peripatetic Postcards   Travel, the Write Way

Peripatetic Postcards   I am Legend (Part 2)

Peripatetic Postcards   I am Legend (Part 1)

Peripatetic Postcards   Squeegee Man with Stump (Somebody's Baby)

Peripatetic Postcards   Picture (this), without Words

Peripatetic Postcards   Drive, Talk: Listen

Peripatetic Postcards   Being Thankful (or . . . Have Yourself a Merry Little Turkey Day!)

Peripatetic Postcards   Protest-a-float

Peripatetic Postcards   Comp 24-7

Peripatetic Postcards   War is Peace (and other nefarious syllogisms)

Peripatetic Postcards   Fill in the Blank

Peripatetic Postcards   The Devil Made Me Do It

Peripatetic Postcards   Here-a-Haunting

Peripatetic Postcards   The Terrorist's Tune

Peripatetic Postcards   All Things Must Pass

Peripatetic Postcards   Every Picture Tells A Story

Peripatetic Postcards   So . . . what do you do?

Peripatetic Postcards   On the Bus

Peripatetic Postcards   I Wonder as I Wander

Peripatetic Postcards   15 Seconds (or notes on the Post-Warholian World)

Peripatetic Postcards   My Old School

Peripatetic Postcards   Suffern Succotash

Peripatetic Postcards   Yellow Hack Lost

Peripatetic Postcards   Coup-ons

Peripatetic Postcards   Nyu- Yawkahs

Peripatetic Postcards   Life, Like That

Peripatetic Postcards   Go Ask the Globe

Peripatetic Postcards   P-o-V

Peripatetic Postcards   I Know It When I See It

Peripatetic Postcards   Parisian De-sign

Peripatetic Postcards   Long Live Light

Peripatetic Postcards   Eco-Cyclic

Peripatetic Postcards   Iconic Eye-full

Peripatetic Postcards   Huis Clos

Peripatetic Postcards   Re/Connaissance

Peripatetic Postcards   Paris! Is . . .

Peripatetic Postcards   Privileging Life

Peripatetic Postcards   Virtual Pre-visitation

Peripatetic Postcards   Tunnel Vision

Peripatetic Postcards   Bunny Country

Peripatetic Postcards   Guitar Rex

Peripatetic Postcards   Simulacra: The New Old in place of the Same Old

Peripatetic Postcards   Buddy, Can You Spare a . . . Metaphor?

Peripatetic Postcards   Baby Dropping (or: the land of any child left behind)

Peripatetic Postcards   Song Swapping

Peripatetic Postcards   The Tipping Point

Peripatetic Postcards   Babel Babble

Peripatetic Postcards   Socially Correct Clues

Peripatetic Postcards   Land of Sakura, sans Shinkansen

Peripatetic Postcards   Golden Time

Peripatetic Postcards   When Does Art Mean?

Peripatetic Postcards   On Breasts and Public Behavior

Peripatetic Postcards   Vigeland's Vision

Peripatetic Postcards   Things Least Expected

Peripatetic Postcards   Making More of Munch

Peripatetic Postcards   Making the Rounds at the Munch

Peripatetic Postcards   Inside the In-Between

Peripatetic Postcards   Going Against Expectations

Peripatetic Postcards   Long Day's Journey into Oslo

Peripatetic Postcards   The Man in the Station

Peripatetic Postcards   Train Tidbits, Tokyo

Peripatetic Postcards   On Starbucks and Recurrence

Peripatetic Postcards   Just Another Band . . .

Peripatetic Postcards   Radical Departures

Peripatetic Postcards   Does Anyone Read KVJ Anymore?

Peripatetic Postcards   Living in Metaphors

 
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