Comfort, Exclusion, and The Mall
It is both hollow and alive, a refuge and a trap. For better or worse, this is the public square of Southeast Asia.
Water and Power
Monopolistic enterprises are not just concerned with selling their product. They also want to impose their culture and values on other countries to establish themselves as the true north of the industry and dictate the distribution of resources like water.
Subcultural Flows
Our thirst for subculture has not been quenched, but finds new pathways to flow, as liquid as ever.
A Briefly Detailed History of My Bedroom ☆.｡.:*
“I stumbled out of bed too quickly, one morning, and fell onto my Lego sets, sending shockwaves through Heartlake City.”
Why you should visit little museums.
he big museum is not primarily educational, but rather a set of possessions shown off by the affluent. Entrance fares are simply upkeep of their capital. Is there a need for Roman marbles, Italian Renaissance paintings, Ancient Chinese pottery, Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist sculptures to be hoarded away in one grand palace-of-sorts presided over by Great Britannia?
17191 CA-46 Suite A, Lost Hills, CA 93249, United States
“This intensity that morphed into a sense of overwhelm so consuming I felt that nothing could be funnelled into a singular actuality. I let that feeling — whatever it was, consume me.”
Thoughts on fermentation.
So here I am, pussy out in the kitchen at 11:47pm, my left knee aching (I’d squat down too fast), and I am trying my luck with the back-of the fridge container.
A Night with the Burwood Literary Institute
Inner-West Ennui
“Above came the rumble-tumble of trains, whines of whistles, the frantic blaring of approaching horns. From below the roars of old buses and the pop of a Porsche or broken-down Ford. A man in a green down jacket, young with spiky black hair, hurried through the soup of neon and sunset.”
Nicholas Osiowy wanders.
ai is a cyborg, not a diphthong
“You cannot dispel the song from your mind, it plays and plays on repeat.”
Rest yourself where? புதுச்சேரி.
“Pondicherry possessed a preserved Eurocentric sense of relaxation that one can only imagine; harkens back to its colonial roots when the town served as a haven for French settlers seeking respite.”
On the Chinese campus canteen
The Chinese campus canteen is an overlooked institution, providing sustenance and representing the deep-rooted tradition of communal eating.
From Guangdong to Goulburn
There is perhaps one thing that unites every Australian town — an institution that has been embedded in our national story since the 18th century: the Australian-Chinese restaurant.
The bun rises in the East
There is something unpretentious and humble about the Asian bakery.