Forgive me if this is obvious, or has been said before; but reading an analysis of the Nuclear Posture Review that the Obama administration has just realised made me realise something. It was this part;

“The United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states that are party to the Nuclear Non- ( Read more... )

Finally I'm daydreaming in technicolour again ( Read more... )

I worry that living in Japan has made me too sterile, too safe for the world. I was surprised by the state of Seoul; the dirt and dust and ramshackle buildings. Japan has enough dilapidated structures to spawn a fashion for exploring ruins (haikyo　廃墟）but somehow the nonchalence of South Korea caught me off guard. The moneyed glamour of Myeong Dong ( Read more... )

Tony Judt, "Edge People," The New York Review of Books, March 25 ( Read more... )

My stars are perhaps more often wrong than right and I may be no more justified believing in them than the God I so easily dismiss. Yesterday, in the cobwebbed consciousness that four hours of sleep imposes, I was bemused to see that I would be feeling imaginative, reflective, magical. I actually felt like canine faeces scraped off a shoe; not only ( Read more... )

... nearly two months to be precise ( Read more... )

I feel half here today; as if I'm stuck outside in the midst of the first rain to dampen Tokyo in weeks. My neck is pinging slightly; I'm not sure if it's a my over caffeination of pure fatigue or whether this strange thoracic syndrome is pinching my nerves into oblivion again. It's not so sore as much as uncomfortable, odd. I feel like a puppet ( Read more... )

off coffee ( Read more... )

In times of need and sadness, I turn to the most unreliable and much derided of spiritual help; horoscopes. http://www.astrologyzone.com/forecasts/monthly/cancer_full.php This, if any of you can be bothered to plough through it, was the most accurate ( Read more... )

Time to draw up the New Years Resolutions... many of which I have already broken. It's only the fourth but still ( Read more... )