LTTE--The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam--shit, to be more specific.

Postcolonialism and Literature feels like such a carry-over from Nationalism in the Middle East that it ain't even funny sometimes.  I'm reading up on this Sinhalese-Tamil stuff and I keep feeling, Israel-Palestine, or sometimes, India-Pakistan, which I suppose would make more ( Read more... )

... the Hindis believe that your soul will have to pick every one up in the afterlife.

Try reconciling that.McAfee pisses me off. 1) It never wants to cooperate with my computer at the beginning of the school year, 2) It seems to not want to cooperate with a lot of students' computers, and 3) In order to have it, we're supposed to eliminate all ( Read more... )

Such as watching clips from animated films in Hebrew.

You see it started (appropriately) with The Prince of Egypt, but then it progressed to my favorite...

I give you FRENCH-ACCENTED HEBREW:

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And this one's my favorite favorite:

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"Kol echad ken, kol echad ken, kol echad rotse lihiyot chatul!" XP

Apparently the Russian cat keeps his accent, but only people ( Read more... )

It totally reinforces my impression that (most) middle-aged women are bitches when a cop fitting that age and sex tells me that because I went up to David's room no crime was committed.  I guess I should have waited to see if he raped me or something, then maybe they'd have shown a little interest.  Right; I must have missed that cultural custom ( Read more... )

Though some of the cosplays were rather good. Still, it's a Japanese Festival, that emphasized more traditional aspects of Japanese culture, not an anime convention, you know? *shrugs*

That aside, the J-Fest was pretty interesting. I learned that a kimono is about as hard to put on as I had thought (and thusly I wonder if what one sees in ( Read more... )

But I did find and show hcolleen the link for this:

Chigo Monogatari: Love Stories or Buddhist Sermons?

I think she focuses more on the religious themes of the chigo stories rather than the chigo themselves.  When I read the Atkins article I'm going to take notes, and once I've done that I'll happily share them here ^^

From The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 67, No. 3 (August) 2008:

Chigo in the Medieval Japanese Imagination

PAUL S. ATKINS

This article explores the representation of chigo-adolescent males attached to Buddhist temples or aristocratic households who were educated, fed, and housed in exchange for personal, including sexual, services-in ( Read more... )

Something about mentioning that I stand over dead people and draw them; the lethal consequences of ingesting too much wormwood, pennyroyal, or mistletoe; and some specifics about transgender people such as generally it's easier for a transwoman to physically transition than it is was a transman et cetera.

But, after a few minutes had gone by and I ( Read more... )

From a recent discussion: Is circumcision as huge a deal as some squicky guys want to make it out to be?  I don't really think it is, but maybe that's because I'm a girl and don't understand all the hype about any modification, however slight, to the OMG ALMIGHTY PENIS.  *shakes head*  Boys are zealous of their toys, no?  Of course, I find myself ( Read more... )

Naw, no drawings, yet. I'm working on them, I promise! But this entry's devoted to a few recent finds that I made...

First one, the big one: Morbid Outlook. I've only explored the Art and Fashion sections thus far, but they've got some exquisite stuff, articles and galleries and the like. Here's a sample of some of the stuff I spent the latter ( Read more... )