Raven in Snow by Katsushika Hokusai, painted at the age of 87, two years before his death. I remember being transfixed by this striking image when I saw it at the Okada Museum of Art in Hakone. He's clearly saying "nevermore." EA Poe and Hokusai both died in 1849. www.sothebys.com/buy/e6e420d0...

Crackly radio dub of Thee Michelle Gun Elephant's Yusuke Chiba interviewing Fishmans' Kinichi Motegi just after Uchu Nippon Setagaya was released. Good friends reminiscing about old times when they were members of the same music club at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama. youtu.be/JFltIlHoT9c

Eruption of Sakurajima volcano, the most powerful in twentieth-century Japan, with Kagoshima, Japan in foreground, 1914

こんにちウィーン

shoutout to my boy at haeinsa temple who told me to stick my arm through the grate if I wanted the best picture of the tripitaka koreana

"I am not a suspicious person," said the suspicious person.

このカステラうまそう きっと高級なやつだ

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. —Dr. Benway, in Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

That one stray Sega dot in 2022. My man from Isekai Ojisan would be proud.

New music from Sugar? As a person who still regularly drinks from the Copper Blue well to get my Sugar fix, this is incredible news. youtu.be/-S72djtUIFk

Kikurage frolicking (2020) #art #Dorohedoro #ドロヘドロ

Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles illustration by Ryoko Kui (Delicious in Dungeon) for Weekly Famitsu No. 1915:

そ、そうなの？ てか、そっち？

“Ultraviolence”

ビザンツ帝国ガイド本ほしいですよね～

"Moriocae, quod oppidum situm est in terra Japanensi" A stronghold in Trajan's lesser known far eastern campaigns against the barbarian Emishi tribes

Finally a Nobel goes to someone I've actually read. I usually don't like to read stories set in Japan by non-Japanese writers because the disconnect from my experience can creep me out but Krasznahorkai's world already feels so utterly alien that... www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2013...

I remember watching Gachinko on air but don't recall hearing this Dinosaur Jr song. All I recall is lots of glaring (menchi kiri) and collar-grabbing followed by scuffling to the accompaniment of metal riffs. The last battle cry of the beleaguered yankee. youtu.be/ZxkQYK0ovFM

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Citadel and storm

鬨の声

generals gathered in their masses/president calls them all fatasses

A very efficient, distilled and to me pretty persuasive version of the bear case against AI economics.

革命を起こすんだ でもウォッシュレットも欲しいよなぁ youtube.com/watch?v=RcZj...

This is insane. sc.mp/mra9j

toe! Not a band I ever expected to see on First Take. Love watching these guys playing like they're possessed by feral spirits. youtu.be/azSsMG6h8k0

Jimbocho, the coolest neighborhood in the world? Not the sleepy place I know. The most excitement I've ever felt in Jimbocho was when I found a trove of those Ace paperbacks of Michael Moorcock's Elric series with the art nouveau-ish covers at Kitazawa Shoten.

YouTubeで突然おすすめに上がってきた。ライヒの曲に合わせた新聞アニメーション、猛烈にかっこいい。世の中には自分の弱小アンテナでは拾いきれてない、ド好みなものがまだまだ存在する youtu.be/56EG957YinM?...

槙生の声が想像どおりで驚いた。ところでなにげなAKIRAネタのコマが好き。「あったまってきたところだぜ……」「モーターのコイル」

The whole Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is not a uniform mirror-like surface in which anything above it is reflected specularly, instead the smoothness of the water surface evolves spatially and temporally. Watch this interesting Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3qX... www.nature.com/articles/s43...

10世紀のブズルグ・イブン・シャフリヤールによる『インドの不思議』（Kitāb ‘Ajā'ib al-Hind 『インド神秘の書』とも）にもワクワクが登場する。ワクワクには「ワクワクの木」という樹木があり、果実は人間の形をしているが、ウシャル Calotropis procera のように中空で、収穫するとしぼんでしまう。 ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%...

吸血猫ニャスフェラトゥ daily.jstor.org/a-multicultu...

理論物理学インフルエンサー界のマリー・アントワネット

Eric Weinstein to Sean Carroll, who referred to his work as a "dog-ate-my-homework kind of thing": "Your intellectually insulting aspect reminds me of you as the Marie Antoinette of theoretical physics influencers." www.wsj.com/science/phys...

OK this title is absolutely wild, but half way in I've got say I'm kind of digging the paper. At the very least I need to go read Serres. philpapers.org/archive/OTTA...

I just love how one of the legs of the phonograph stand is an elephant that's turning into a tree.

Aw shit youtu.be/NAELUlwLz7M

暑くなくなるのいつ？

And I do so look forward to having more opportunities to explain why my translation is different from some no-context translation that an AI randomly spit out.

I love it when a client complains about a translation "error" because the client's autocorrect "corrected" my already correct translation.

I missed that Jayden Daniels was rocking the Japanese flag on his helmet yesterday during the game vs. the Giants and that lead me to find out he has Japanese ancestry I love that he repped it for the occasion on opening week talksport.com/nfl/3536497/...

From the Aeon archive, ‘0107 – b moll’ by the Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Kondo features layers of nighttime images of Tokyo trains, exploring some of the contrasts – physical togetherness and emotional solitude, natural darkness and artificial light – of his bustling home city

ぶつかりおじさん同士をぶつければ小さなぶつかりおじさんとニュートリノが飛び出してきそう

Almost got separated into a head component and a body component

これは本当に素晴らしいですよ。是非読んでください 台湾で鳥を探す｜(awa) #夏の自由研究 https://note.com/awesome_awa/n/n192440636a1e?sub_rt=share_pw

It seems farfetched to think that this Venetian winged lion statue actually came from China... until you realize that Marco Polo's father had already been to China and back by the time this statue was first mentioned. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

何をどう間違えたらこんな訳になるのか気になって調べてみたら誤訳ではなかったらしい "マジックテープには悪魔のような吸着性と、同時に、同一のものとして、あっさりとした取り外し性が求められる" www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/c1801/PU/JP-...

何日か前にメキシコのオアハカ州で隕石が落ちて小さなクレータができたらしいんだけど、どうみてもスーパーマン