March 2008

Frugal Crafts Friday: The musical fruit

March 28, 2008

Not feeling much into tools, glue, and paint today, I offer yet another food craft, this one very ancient. Let us us speak of beans. Wonderful, delicious, amazingly nutritious and astonishingly cheap beans! You can buy beans, as you no doubt have noticed, mighty cheap in bulk at places like Sprouts and at various ethnic [...]

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Neat News Item

March 27, 2008

One of my clients, Ellen Van Goethem, has seen her excellent study of the politics of medieval Japan, Nagaoka: Japan’s Forgotten Capital, published by Brill, a prominent Dutch scholarly press. It appears as volume 29 in Brill’s Japanese Studies Library. Hers is one of the rare scholarly works that is truly interesting. Japanese history is [...]

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