As I become more and more a "literary" translator, I find myself beginning to approach reading as a professional duty, even as I remain steadfastly fixated on choosing books that I think will actually be interesting. This book, a collection of horror stories by a…
Continue reading...The next in my newspaper column series is about my finally successful search for a crested kingfisher, or ヤマセミ in Japanese. It's an elusive bird that seems to be only active in the early morning, so it took a while to get a picture. But…
Continue reading...I took a few pictures that I like recently, so here you go. A couple of the crops are unconventional, but these aren't for printing, so who cares?
Continue reading...I didn't realize I'd missed so many of these! It was a pretty heavy summer, anyway. But I'm still writing my column for the local Setouchi Times 瀬戸内タイムス newspaper. This might not have been "the next" but it's in the series. This was a summer…
Continue reading...Pareidolia noun par·ei·do·lia ˌper-ˌī-ˈdō-lē-ə -ˈdōl-yə : the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern Merriam-Webster Dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pareidolia People who follow me on Mastodon might have seen me mention my recent experiences with the YouTube series Fake Documentary…
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