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Thread: What is/was your area of study? Post: What is/was your area of study? Postmodern philosophy PhD; fine arts creative writing (apologies) MFA; comparative lit. Japanese / Chinese / French MA; English lit. modernist mainly BA. |
blannk | Off topic | 98 | 16,853 | 2009-09-02, 5:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Does Language Shape What We Think? Post: Does Language Shape What We Think? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity |
blannk | Off topic | 16 | 4,481 | 2009-08-21, 4:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Another one struggling Post: Another one struggling zazen666 Wrote:dewick Wrote:Maybe we should start a 'doing-less-than-a-ton-a-day-&-with-crap-percentages-but-managing-anyway' thread, aphasiac, Winterfell, many others, I'm sure, to counteract the... |
blannk | Remembering the Kanji | 27 | 4,307 | 2009-08-13, 1:12 am | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method Nukemarine's avatar scares me, but fwiw I agree with what he said above, plus he has helped immensely in organizing and contributing to one sensible way forward. Plus he writes sharper English prose ... |
blannk | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,302 | 2009-07-30, 9:37 am | ||
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Thread: Anyone in New York City? Post: Anyone in New York City? I can add to the Japanophile's list of Manhattan spots The Kitano, both the hotel itself and the restaurant on premises, 66 Park Avenue @ East 38th. It's not cheap, but it's not the Ritz Carlton, eith... |
blannk | General discussion | 7 | 1,089 | 2009-07-30, 8:25 am | ||
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Thread: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex Post: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex bodhisamaya Wrote:The people in the Philippines who have at least basic living requirements are indeed much happier and friendlier than most people I meet in America. I try to get out of Manila as qu... |
blannk | Off topic | 20 | 6,069 | 2009-07-27, 2:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex Post: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex bodhisamaya Wrote:Guess I can't enter a Japanese restaurant and order a meatless dish now. Well, you can, but you'll be branded a fish by who knows who if you do. Have a gyoza to save face. bodhisam... |
blannk | Off topic | 20 | 6,069 | 2009-07-27, 12:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex Post: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex IceCream Wrote:Cool, i've not been to japan yet... how is it now? Have you read Michel Maffesoli's _Le temps des tribus: le déclin de l'individualisme dans les sociétés postmodernes_? In English it's ... |
blannk | Off topic | 20 | 6,069 | 2009-07-27, 11:46 am | ||
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Thread: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex Post: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex IceCream Wrote:I think in a lot of places, a real feeling of community has disappeared a bit right? Less in Japan, even in Tokyo, than most places our posters on these threads are from, I would say, d... |
blannk | Off topic | 20 | 6,069 | 2009-07-27, 11:25 am | ||
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Thread: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex Post: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex thermal Wrote:. . . Yet, we live in an insane world and Japan is the most insane place of all. . . . It can be very hard to break out of this negative momentum. Ahem. Methinks you have never been to... |
blannk | Off topic | 20 | 6,069 | 2009-07-27, 10:03 am | ||