A college student with an obscure interdisciplinary major might do well to consider the influence of the Japanese principle of mono no aware on video games. The phrase is difficult to translate, and it’s rendered variously as “sensitivity to things” or “sensitivity to ephemera.” It describes a certain wistfulness in art, an awareness of [...]
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Brian, Mateo, and I went to WonderCon this weekend. In years past, the weather was invariably rainy during this comics convention, but this year it was wonderfully warm and sunny. We spent a couple of hours outside of the convention hall each afternoon, having tea and lunch at Samovar and then [...] I know I said that vegetarian lumpia would be the next recipe I posted, but I haven’t had the chance to make them to get accurate measurements of what I put in them. So I’m doing vegetarian empanadas instead. I learned these empanadas as an Ecuadorian recipe (my maternal grandmother is from Ecuador), but [...] I’ve been a vegetarian for fifteen years, and I don’t miss meat at all. One thing I do miss, however, is eating dishes from my childhood. Having Mateo has made me think about being a kid a lot more (though, like everyone, I always have my memories from childhood at the back of my [...] “… We should not grieve, should we, baby?” said Celia confidentially to that unconscious centre and poise of the world, who had the most remarkable fists all complete even to the nails, and hair enough, really, when you took his cap off, to make — you didn’t know what: — in short, he was [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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