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Fanboy by Alexander Chee

an article on being bi-cultural, especially of mixed-race, and then about comics as bearing significance to society.

I lived as a juvenile legal alien in a very foreign culture for long enough to know exactly what he's talking about with hearing both sides of a divide mock each other with the same kind of rhetoric. And I ( Read more... )

not sure when this deal goes through, but anachred lives on only in spirit, not in name.

hakusa-tegami, "letters on gossamer" blends (for me, in my head at least) the elements of Japanese culture, my fiber art, love of the delicacy contrasted with strength of cobwebs, and the literary component that is most important of all.

Yoroshiku!
or 4649, as all ( Read more... )

INTERNE~T, YOU ARE BO~RING ME~...

This is obviously a plan to thwart me in wasting a perfectly good work day.
*~curses~*
It is about this time in the Virtual Reality lifecycle that I have the overwhelming desire to start a new blog.
And have a name for it.

(You *do* realize it is nigh on impossible to not do things once you have the right name.)

THIS ( Read more... )

So I really did want to do this meme which is  you comment on a friend's blog, and they pick 7 of your interests to hear you out on. If you've already done this, then I'll pick a few for you to comment here on.
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Right now, I'm sad to not have an accent.

Oh, of course I talk like something (and it's not the South African graceful something), but when I'm in Boston and say I've been living in OK, hearing that I sound a little southern makes me both smirky and chagrined.

Because I don't belong anywhere.

I'm only bringing this up because with the PTSD by " ( Read more... )