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meanwhile, the idea that anyone would trust a fuck-up lee harvey oswald with any degree of importance in any planned conspiracy - even as a fall guy - beggars belief

yep, its the only account i have read that makes every fact of the case make sense - essentially, oswald was what he seemed, jack ruby was what he seemed, *and* the gov had to cover it up anyway.

Mortal Error - Wikipedia

i'm partial to the "hungover secret service fired by accident" theory, as it best conforms to my observations of What People Are Like - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_...

teaching a class on popular performance at NUS means students sharing shit with me past what my weak millennial american mind can comprehend. behold Wang Sulong's "ROMANCE CITY" concert at Bird's Nest (capacity 100K), complete with floats, mascots, transparent LED displays, ceiling projection... 😶

One Piece, a pirate-superhero shonen which taught the world about English apostrophe rules,

roger caillois is my fave right-wing thinker of the 20th century bc in opposing cultural pluralism he insisted that the best cultures were the Incas and the Tang Dynasty and that humanity would never get that good again. i cannot agree with this position but i must respect it

An article on the new Nepali government recalls the use of the One Piece flag by 2025 protesters but calls it "the pirate flag that is a worldwide symbol of Gen Z resistance"

the nyt refusing to call the One Piece flag a One Piece flag seems symptomatic of a whole set of crises: of journalistic style, of generational divisions, and especially of an american liberal order that cannot speak (let alone understand) what the world has become

A few turns of events differently and a KMT China could have joined the Axis. Taylor stresses how seriously Stalin took this possibility, and how commited he was to keeping Chaing in place to prevent it.

A few turns of events differently and a KMT China could have joined the Axis. Taylor stresses how seriously Stalin took this possibility, and how commited he was to keeping Chaing in place to prevent it.

The US thought a Japanese China sounded good for business as late as 36.

Chiang's intense (how could they be otherwise!) journal habits.

Japanese war crimes as early as 1928. Astonishing.

Madame Chiang (Soong Meiling) was an incredible character and still may have been the least interesting of her siblings. I really have to see the Soong Sisters movie

once your kid is walking i promise you will be radicalized against The Car more than you once thought possible

That's why I suspect the automatic cueing/trans is central here -- producers would just need to buy some and then all domestic productions are open to all tourists without extra planning. (If they work.)

Yeah, Berlin can count on English and will stick w cheap supertitles. But I could see Broadway and West End theatres keeping some on hand for moneyed tourists who lack confident English - could even charge for them.

With A.I. Glasses, Korea’s Theaters Hope for a K-Pop Moment

eager to try these, and suspect they could become really significant as theatre connects to global tourist flows. But I question the article's implication that audiences are so averse to supertitles - it's just that English can't function as a default lingua franca in Asia.

a lot going on here

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incredible way to burst into an office, 10/10 no notes

CKS, the uncorruptable paragon who also was owned by opium cartels

i feel like the Left Fatalist view has been popular with artists and intellectuals, but encountering it in a revolutionary is unusual

I am up to 1929 or so. CKS is not a likeable figure but Taylor makes the impossibility of his situation plain. Likewise his general initial sympathies with what anyone today would consider "the left."

Long road ahead, however.

Cover of Jay Taylor's "The Generalissimo: Chaing Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China."

Have decided to learn more about modern Asian history, starting from no formal education on the topic. Will mostly focus on China and will post my reading journey here.

I have started with Jay Taylor's doorstop biography of Chiang Kai-Shek.

reading the straits times I have a hard time believing SG would close the strait at the behest of US/Taiwan. there is so much emphasis on cooperation with the PRC and on the unreliability of the US. and it's not like the PAP really has to worry about their voters' sympathies for Taiwan.

Singapore!

I'm always fond of Adorno's remark that the spewing fascist strongmen and kindly Christian conservatives just represent a "division of labor"

as I wrote that I was trying to remember if both of those were broadway or west end!! when you live away from the centres one begins to mix them up

For a lot of undergraduate drama students the only two ways they know about a playwright are (1) major recent NYC production w a celebrity in it or (2) high school lit. Pinter's fallen off both.