Tomorrow is May 1st, and the Great American Boycott 2006 (El Gran Paro Americano 2006). It is also being called “The day without an immigrant” (Un dia sin immigrante). I’ll being joining the citywide gathering at Boston Commons at 4pm tomorrow and I hope there will be a big showing from the immigrant community and [...]
Katrina Gulliver is going to be hosting the next Asian History carnival at her weblog Miscellany on May 5th, 2006. If you have read anything good related to Asian history since March 6th, please email her your nominations at hello [at] katrinagulliver.com. You can also submit nominations via this submission page. Read more about the [...]
I created a new (Macintosh) computer automated alarm to get me up and about in the morning. Here is what the alarm does: 1. My computer wakes itself up in the morning. At the appropriate time it opens up iTunes and turns the volume all the way down. 2. It randomly chooses one song from [...]
As often as I can, I check the DPRK’s Korean Central News Service for a bit of news from the other side. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be able to learn about things like the “disgusting farce” of the “traitorous acts” reported today: Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) — A spokesman for the Committee for the [...]
The most fun lessons so far this semester in my first year classical chinese class were reading the classic tale of the giant snake killing Li Ji（李寄, and her faithful sidekick, a snake-killing dog) and the original ballad of the female warrior Mulan（木蘭） (two versions here and here). Both brave and filial young daughters from [...]
So here I am in Madison, Wisconsin, walking back to my motel room after dinner and I stop at a gas station on the side of the road to get some candy. As I open my wallet to pay, the man standing behind the inch of glass in front of me notices that I have [...]