paddington the refugee
Paddington, the bear from Peru, will be arrested and interrogated over his immigration status in a book marking his 50th birthday. (BBC) He has no papers to prove his identity as his Aunt Lucy arranged for him to hide on a ship’s lifeboat from Peru when she went to live in the Home for Retired Bears in Lima.
spell-check dialectic
sublation, expressivist, emancipatory, simpliciter, sustainably, identificatory. (words my spell-check does not like.)
happy bday, bhumipol
thailand’s revered king (BBC).
Intro: Between the Two Revolutions
The first public reaction to the idea of reactualizing Lenin is, of course, an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK – today, even on Wall Street, there are people who still love him: Marx the poet of commodities, who provided perfect descriptions of the capitalist dynamic; Marx of Cultural Studies, who portrayed the alienation and reification of our daily … Read More
som tam & sticky rice
the spiciest dishes I had in thailand were not the curries, nor the tom yams, but the *salads*. here’s the most popular, papaya salad (som tam): (Recipes are from Vatch’s Thai Street Food by Vatcharin Bhumichitr.) 2 garlic cloves 3-4 small fresh red or green chilis green beans 6 oz young green papaya, cut into fine slivers 1 tomato, cut … Read More
against all odds
“The game that lets you experience what it is like to be a refugee”: new online game by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
namurian bucky balls
my apologies to buckminster fuller.
LDCs, MDCs & IPRs
writing a paper on pharmaceutical patents in china (yes, pressed for time), and I came across this–the type of story that gets me all into intellectual property again.