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the japan files
What excited you most in 2025? It turns out there are two subtly different terms for non-Asian people who find themselves with an interest in Japan: one can be a japanophile …or one can be a weeaboo (or weeb). Both are similar terms, but like anything we do in this crazy culture of ours one
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weekend wrap, fourteen
It’s September, and the last few days of August were a long weekend that was busy and activity-filled and definitely not wasted for the last day of summer holidays. Friday evening I got my board shorts on and sat in front of the computer for a a solid two hours attending the kick off board
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periodical past
Remember magazines? There are still magazines for sale, of course, paper ones… really. I know. I’m looking at some there off to my right even as I sit here writing this—but despite the physical evidence just out of reach from me, I do honestly believe we are clearly past the age of peak periodical. I
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obscurity by design
Blogs tend to get looped in with a broader definition of “social media” –and that is fair, to a point–but there is a much more modern attitude around social media fatigue and frustration to which that inclusion I may be less inclined to agree. I am going to write something that may make your eyes
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when being annoyed is the whole point
The primary operating mode of any bully is to get into your head. Fear is primal after all. Very few of us yearn for confrontation. We want things comfortable. We want to sit and enjoy our lunch in peace and quiet. We want to watch our show without being disturbed. We don’t want to be
Category: culture & politics
Warning, the sturgeon general says this category may contain fishy opinions about stuff going on in this crazy wide world.