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That time of year thou mayst around me behold ...
Er, sorry 'bout that -- between bouts of Ramayana I've been snorking Elizabethan sonnet cycles, which is affecting my diction. Frankly, it's that time of year where I've little of my own self: the monsoon storms* have arrived -- our first t-storm was Wednesday night, at dark-o'clock when no one was awake enough to appreciate it. The sky is hazed and blotched with clouds, the evaporative cooler barely works** in this humidity -- and it's breaking 100F before 9am. In short, this bear is of very little brain.
So in lieu of anything thoughtful, some links what's made me thinks:
From Manga and Philosophy, ed. Josef Steiff and Adam Barkman (365 Books, Day 177) :
From this post:
Publishers and the internet: a changing role?. Yes, it's Cory Doctorow, but it's one of the more sane bits of commentary on the changes e-publishing is bringing about that I've read. Or maybe I say that only because what he says agrees with my assumption that the changes aren't killing the "big six" but are resulting in another (set of) distribution channel(s) alongside them. That is always possible. (via)
I'm sure I had another, but I seem to have lost it in the sofa cushions ...
* Correct name: the moisture is, in fact, the tail northeastern end of the tropical weather shift that brings the monsoon to India, the early summer rainy season to Japan, and thunderstorms up the Mexican Cordillera. Global weather patterns: they link together.
** ETA: And this morning, wasn't working at -- short in the power supply. I've jury-rigged a repair ...
---L.
Er, sorry 'bout that -- between bouts of Ramayana I've been snorking Elizabethan sonnet cycles, which is affecting my diction. Frankly, it's that time of year where I've little of my own self: the monsoon storms* have arrived -- our first t-storm was Wednesday night, at dark-o'clock when no one was awake enough to appreciate it. The sky is hazed and blotched with clouds, the evaporative cooler barely works** in this humidity -- and it's breaking 100F before 9am. In short, this bear is of very little brain.
So in lieu of anything thoughtful, some links what's made me thinks:
From Manga and Philosophy, ed. Josef Steiff and Adam Barkman (365 Books, Day 177) :
The essay about why Westerners keep reading manga characters as looking white summarizes the entire situation in the most concise terms I've ever heard it stated: to Western comics readers, white is an unmarked state, so they expect markers if the characters are Japanese; to Japanese readers, Japanese is an unmarked state, so they expect markers if the characters are anything else. It behooves the Western reader to be aware of this -- that 'they look white to me' argument basically means 'I expect Japanese people to look different from the usual'.This. Expecting otherness = problem. Othering = problem.
From this post:
Talent + money + time + willingness to work + courage + luck must be sufficient. Abundance of one can make up for lack of others.I have the feeling this proposition is not universally extensible, but I'm not sure what parts are off-kilter. (via)
Publishers and the internet: a changing role?. Yes, it's Cory Doctorow, but it's one of the more sane bits of commentary on the changes e-publishing is bringing about that I've read. Or maybe I say that only because what he says agrees with my assumption that the changes aren't killing the "big six" but are resulting in another (set of) distribution channel(s) alongside them. That is always possible. (via)
I'm sure I had another, but I seem to have lost it in the sofa cushions ...
* Correct name: the moisture is, in fact, the tail northeastern end of the tropical weather shift that brings the monsoon to India, the early summer rainy season to Japan, and thunderstorms up the Mexican Cordillera. Global weather patterns: they link together.
** ETA: And this morning, wasn't working at -- short in the power supply. I've jury-rigged a repair ...
---L.