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Didn't expect to see this news today. Didn't even think he would pass away before 島田荘司, or Lawrence Block, or G. R. R. Martin, or Stephen King. I guess people just die. I read quite a lot of Higashino's mysteries 20 some years ago. The first one of his I read was his debut work 放課後 (After School, 1985). Of course, I couldn't read the Japanese original back then, I read the pirated scans of the…
I am thinking about that Vivian Maier documentary, Finding Vivian Maier (2013). I watched it a few years ago on MUBI. I don't know why it's on my mind today. It just happened. There's one quote that I don't remember exactly, but it lingered in my mind, fragmented, so I searched and found the documentary's subtitles (since I couldn't be bothered enough to rewatch it). Here it is: Some people's…
"What crime could somebody commit in Salt Lake City?" Louella wondered. "Monogamy?" "And they'd arrest you years later," Alden said, "on suspicion of serial monogamy." —— Lawrence Block, Dead Girl Blues (2020) When I was 12 and attending that boarding school, I bought a book every week (two if I could afford it). I only read one at a time, then reread it until I bought another one on the weekend,…
A few years ago, I attended a Vipassana meditation retreat. For 9 days, you don't get to follow the Noble Silence rule: no talking, not even intentional eye contacts. You are all on yourself with your chattering mind. The rule was lifted on the 10th day for transitioning back to normal life and allowing attendees to exchange experiences. And someone people can't stop talking. Someone asked, "What…
There's a lot of talk going on about protecting children online because porn proliferates there. Maybe. But as I walked further down memory lane, triggered by yesterday's post , I realized there was a lot of porn floating around even before the internet. I was 7 years old, talking to a classmate about Street Fighter anime after school. Another classmate jumped into the conversation and said,…
It was back in the 90s, when we were still under 10 years old. A friend proudly showed off his first home desktop computer to three or four of our friends. It was still a novelty at the time, and not many families had one. He dialed the modem, connected to the internet, and clicked here and there to surf the net. People called it "surfing the net" back then. There was a bookmark in Internet…