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Join or Die: Why You Should Join a Club

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...I attended a screening last night of a new documentary, seven years in the making, profiling the work of Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, best known for the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. I read this book when it came out and it had a profound influence on me, leading to years of joining clubs and organizations. The documentary is professionally produced and features some high level interviewees inclu...

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These Cheese Puffs are Gangsta

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...ys come back to the evergreen Onion gag about Nike supposedly giving up on making shoes and just doing ads. Maybe Snoop has strayed too far from his musical roots, what with his cavorting with Martha Stewart, chilling with Rick Caruso and clowning around at the Olympics. Perhaps, like the future shoe-free Nike company, he should swear off the music (if he hasn’t already?) and ascend to the realm of pure signs. Whereas we may have previously imagin...

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Disaster Nationalism: A Politics of Cleansing Violence

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...d to ailments such as cardiovascular disease rather than to the conditions making people vulnerable to the disease. If one wasn’t tuned in to politics, one might have been aware of losing a loved one, of misfortunes piling up, of the quality of life generally getting worse, without having a face to put to the crime. In those circumstances, resentment might either remain below the threshold of awareness or settle on a personal or political scapegoa...

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Masters of Carpentry at Japan House

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...k of respect for the craft of carpentry. As I’ve learned from my furniture making hobby, carpentry requires a combination of physical stamina, a sense of design and a hand/eye finesse similar to playing a musical instrument. Nishiyama noted that we consider the trades as lesser than going to college and this attitude needs to change. In particular, the complex joinery involved in Japanese temple architecture demonstrates a high level of skill and...

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Goodbye 2024

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...and gloom stuff. I have no memory of this gathering but put a bootleg podcast of Art on this evening to drown out the fireworks and keep the animals calm. I worked all day in the woodshop making frames for a friend’s gallery show so I too will be heading to bed early. No Club Los Globos for us tonight. Best wishes to all for a happy 2025....

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