learn:::create:::publish

politics

Stuff that keeps the panic away

March 3, 2020February 28, 2020 terri0

Not completely away, if I’m honest. But far enough that, if I look with my spiritual eye — the one that can hardly see with because of older age and a bunch of other things — I can take that breath that lets me decide to look away. I’ve spent too much time looking too deeply into what being American actually means. And it broke a bunch of things in me. Some expectations gentled

create

The sheer delight of finally making a thing and why you should do it

February 19, 2020February 16, 2020 terri0

I’m finally making a thing. It’s been in my mind for months. This is me doing the prep to make the thing. I didn’t make the actual thing tonight, only the demo. The workweek starts tomorrow, and I started later than I intended to. Actually, I made less than a demo, because as I looked for angles that would at least make me look the way I look in

life in tokyo

Japanese idols – my advice for the ‘girl next door’

February 9, 2020 terri0

Having once been in an alternative pop branch of the entertainment business in Japan, I still follow the business news, and I had a mildly disgusted reaction to a Nikkei Asian Review article about Japanese idols: The captivating 'girl next door' Mild because, well, who am I to tell these young ladies and gentlemen that what they're doing isn't admirable, that their fans are misguided, pathetic and sometimes creepy, and that