Posted in Art, International relations on Jan 24th, 2008
I attended a screening of Li Ying’s 2007 documentary Yasukuni this afternoon at the Sundance Film Festival, with (and thanks to) my cousin Holly.
Yasukuni is a moving examination of issues surrounding the Yasukuni shrine in Toyko, exploring the shrine’s significance from the perspective of a variety of Japanese and non-Japanese voices. Li Ying is a Chinese-born […]
Posted in Art on Nov 15th, 2007
Susan Levine, a folksinger and a college classmate of mine, is releasing her second album, Atlas, and this morning, Joel Brown has a wonderful profile of Susan and the debut of Atlas in the Boston Globe.
I haven’t heard any of the songs on Atlas yet, but I can enthusiastically recommend Susan’s debut album, Scatter Me.
The […]
Posted in Art on Oct 24th, 2007
I went for a visit to Weir Farm today, to see the exhibit of Truman Seymour watercolors.
It was a delightful visit. I hadn’t been to Weir Farm before, and I was quite impressed. They’ve clearly put a lot of effort into the historic site, and the National Park Service has done an amazing job of […]
Posted in Art on Sep 17th, 2007
The Weir Farm Art Center is offering an exhibit of watercolors by Truman Seymour at the National Park Service’s Weir Farm National Historic Site in Wilton, Conn.
Truman Seymour was a career military officer who served as a Union general in the Civil War. He was also a 19th century artist who lived in Europe in retirement, creating […]
Posted in Race and slavery, Gender, Art, National security, International relations, Science, Law, Politics on Jul 5th, 2007
Welcome to my blog!
I’m planning to use this blog to offer occasional reflections on topics of interest to me, notably politics, law and foreign relations, but also including science and other topics. I make no promise to post frequently, or that this blog will be interesting to anyone.
From time to time, I will also offer […]
Posted in Race and slavery, Gender, Art, National security, International relations, Science, Law, Politics on Jul 5th, 2007
The blog entries prior to this date are a sampling of posts imported from my old LiveJournal account. I blogged these entries long before I started this site.
Unfortunately, the export from LiveJournal didn’t include any of the original comments.
