It's amazing (it shouldn't be, but it is, and that's another rant for another time) what kind of philosophical and social commentary you can find in a children's book.

( Here, have a long quote and see what I mean. )

Okay! i haven't yet posted today, so here we go ( Read more... )

It sometimes seems like everyone forgets about the days that follow Halloween. This could be because the various protestant churches (which mostly dominate America) aren't all that big on saints. It could also be that the commercial opportunities are practically nonexistent so there's almost no advertising including it ( Read more... )

Not actually a meme, but yoinked from hime1999 anyway.

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( on creation )

So. Splitting headache, possibly a migraine (almost certainly a migraine, in fact, let me go get my medicine ( Read more... )

Most everyone is gone, so I don't have much off-hand to give thanks for. It's mostly people, anyway: Kiriko, Miyake-sensei, Pronko-sensei and his wondeful productions, the opportunities I've had, Yamashita-sensei and his amazing classes with their excruciating tests, my parents who almost always understand and make it all better ( Read more... )

I don't doubt that this is all one-sided, and some of it may be (probably is) fudged/biased, but...

( milk )

It's one of the very few original religions to survive. And when I say original religion, I'm talking about the way all cultures start off, before we start wondering what happens after we die. Pixies, sprites, fairies, elves, gremlins, munchkins, brownies - whatever you want to call them, they're what's left over from the original European ( Read more... )

What a person believes to be true is true for that person, and often, that is all that matters.

Wow, how philosophical of me.

I just finished reading the last chapter of When the Emperor was Divine. It's about a family sent off to concentration camps during WWII. It's about the way, for the sake of pa-something the American populace turned against members of itself who just happened to look a little different and fucked up their lives. Because they were scared. Because ( Read more... )