Category Archives: it’s a small world
Daily Oddities, July 23rd, 2009
We’ve got lots to talk about today, so lets get right down to the real serious stuff. Globe: Things still really suck for EU little cousins Bulgaria and Romania, where infighting, corruption and graft are making it difficult to get … Continue reading
Bibliomaniac’s Guide to Reading
Some days, it seems like reading is a lost art. Sure, we read text messages and Tweets and even Japanese cell phone novels; we read on the iPhone and the Kindle and maybe even the headlines at NYTimes.com, but when … Continue reading
Sergei Dovlatov, and why you should care
It’s been a little while since I felt the compulsive need to write/talk/read about Sergei Dovlatov, the unsung Soviet storyteller whose raw wit and uncomfortable humor trancends national borders, economic philosophies, and continents, even if it never trancended Russian. He … Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, Brighton Beach, it's a small world, nyc, Russia
OMFG I LOVE YOU BARNEY FRANK <3 <3 <3
Be the AWESOME you wish to see in the world, Barney. BE IT.
Terror Couture
Recently, I’ve become obsessed by terrorist chic- not the kind defined so brilliantly by bradtriescriticaltheory – the sort that’s already been coopted and comodified to the point that Palestinians should be embarassed to wear the kaffieyeh, but things you could … Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, India, it's a small world, Mexico, Sri Lanka, United Nations
Sri Lanka vs Darfur: How We Read Conflict
*(reader note: since lots of my recent traffic seems to have an infants sense of irony, I’m marking anything I said ironic with asterisks. ****) I was asked in an interview recently why the Sri Lankan conflict (which has about … Continue reading
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I am consistantly amazed at how much i get to do whatever i want.
the things i like to write about (are weird)
From time to time, when I am writing, I have this thought—which I occasionally post on FB: “sometimes i sit down and i write some shit and i think, holy mother of G-d i am a sick, terrible person. at … Continue reading
A history of the conflict in Sri Lanka, from Guardian.co.uk
Chronicle of conflict • Sri Lanka gained independence from Britain in 1948. The country has a population of 21 million, of whom about 3.2 million are of Hindu Tamil origin. • Tamil is one of the principal languages of the … Continue reading
Little Big Things in South Asia part 2—Tata’s Nano and what the 1W is missing
THE NANO IS HERE! Back in the day when I used to read Adbusters, I remember they had a video that depicted the United States as a pig trying to squirm its way out of the map. It was supposed … Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, India, it's a small world, MUMBAI
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