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I first heard of Boy’s Love in reference to Japanese Manga. Among the stories of magical girls, and the heterosexual harem fantasies where boys or girls were surrounded by members of the opposite sex who (usually for no good reason) were infatuated with them, there were the genre of stories which left out the girl … Continue reading
Ding Dang Destiny (You are my Destiny, 2020) is a mainland Chinese show that starts as a romcom and ends as a melodrama. Although the show is set in China, it is intensely capitalist, and shows a good range of business models. Let’s overlook the title cruise ship which is based in the Bahamas and … Continue reading
(Warning for Spoilers, suicide mention, and unethical Doctor interactions) When I first started watching Asian television, I knew that there would be some topics that they would cover that were not covered in American TV, but I didn’t expect to find two stories about erectile dysfunction. The first was Kakafukaka, a Japanese show based on … Continue reading
I was born in a world without ad block. Some of my first songs were TV advertisements, so I am not usually surprised to find that television depends on advertisements to make money. Or at least I thought I wasn’t until I started watching Asian Dramas. Korean and Chinese television shows often have advertisements as … Continue reading
I am an TV baby. Born and raised with two much television in the days before cable. I learned my tropes honestly, by watching hours and hours of US TV shows like Wonder Woman, Charlie’s Angels, Star Trek, Mork and Mindy, Lucille Ball, Gilligan’s Island, Columbo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the list goes on and … Continue reading
Sometimes, children play this game. One will start singing a song, then the next one will sing with them and the first one will stop singing. But then another child will take up the song, and they will pass the song on and on for as long as they can. It is their way of … Continue reading
I have a shy hearteasily overpowered by the wants and needs of others.a silent heartthat holds its loves deep like a patch of green algaeat the base of a roiling waterfallhardly noticedcontributing littlebending wildly in the cacophony But perhaps one frosty springwhen the water is lowand the stream is covered with a narrow sheen of … Continue reading
Seven ideas to help you get out of the rut that you get stuck in when in the middle of an art project. It started with desire, I listened to a song and fell in love with it, and then I heard an idea and I knew that this song could go well with it. … Continue reading
Before going to the movie, I was not that interested in it. After all, I lived through the eighties, and I wasn’t that nostalgic for the time. I thought much of the music then was lame, and the insistence on money and appearing successful was not something that I found very appealing. I supposed that … Continue reading
I watched black panther and my generally favorable view of the movie was marred by the closing words. And so I wanted to go back to the core question and ask, what can we learn from a nation of farmers? Continue reading
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