confusion | confusion
Jun.14.2013
Twice recently I have felt confused about Japanese. Well, I should probably inflate that number by an order of 10 or 100, just to account for all the puzzlement I experience in an average week. But I can remember only two episodes of note. Both had to do with height.
For my forthcoming essay on 杉...
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Jan.10.2013
I had this friend when I was a kidHe lived in a big houseAnd had a lot of toysHis dad drove a red convertibleAnd hand-loomed rugs in the basement
I didn’t see his mom there but she wasDidn’t see his parents much
One day he started to bully meThis went on for a few yearsHe got meaner and...
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Jan.04.2013
I'll admit to a bit of puzzlement here: when Mr. Tarantino and Mr. Foxx do "it," the end-product is artistic and bold; but for Mr. Twain's usage, the end-product requires sanitized re-writes and a perennial campaign to put "Huck Finn" on the banned-book list?
Clarification of the New Rules...
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Dec.10.2012
Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lydon B. Johnson and chief architect of the Vietnam War, once likened his wartime experience to being in a kind of fog. "What the fog of war means," he said, "is that war is so complex it's beyond...
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Nov.16.2012
This is a work related rant, so I can respect your wishes not to read it. I mean, it's all about my company and the frustrating structure and policies they create.
To begin, I want to invite you to play some football. You're on a team, on the field. Your team has the ball. ...
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May.02.2012
May 2
THE MEAL
Home cooking is the key. I want to order in, have my life delivered to the door. The takeout menus entice me. From three courses on china to burgers handed through sliding windows, it all sounds good and I request all for take home....
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Apr.20.2012
The following word looks quite simple, but that's not the case!
一分
It has three yomi and three meanings. Do you know what they are? I'll block the answers with a photo I took on a road trip to the Monterey/Carmel area last weekend.
Photo Credit: Eve Kushner
Iceplant above Monterey Bay.
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Nov.18.2011
Never imagine that you may lose Instead highly positively you muse Doubts and worries are of no use Only optimism, you always choose
During confusion, take no decision Out of fear, stop not your mission Approach life with proper for vision Never give to pessimism permission
When you think...
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May.13.2011
A few days ago I blogged that I had placed A MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN, a novel in which Herod the Great is the illegitimate father of Jesus on Kindle.
That seems to have transpired without any great mystery or glitches, although I ended up with a thumbnail cover I didn't expect (and have...
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May.01.2011
Harper’s Magazine, May 2011
At no time in modern history have fact and fiction been as confused as they are now. In the May issue of Harper’s, Jonathan Stevenson’s article, “Owned By The Army,” depicts a dangerous slide from a military subservient to Congress and the President to an increasingly...
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