june2008
June 2008
Arts:
The concert of the month almost qualifies as the incident of the month: Mainly Mozart
Movies:
Yasujiro Ozu's movies have a flavor of daily life in japan, with its social rules, its singing at the restaurants, its weekends with the co-workers, or its worries to get the girls married.
Documentaries:
BBC's wild china: another masterpiece with landscapes of unimaginable beauty! could it be our next destination?
Incident of the month:
-our taxes back? we got our rebate check, which should be spent to stimulate the economy. are we going to be patriotic for once?
-we have been subpoenaed! it had to happen. In a country that has the resources to invest in research and well being, it predominates the "I sue you - you sue me" culture. And we were the witnesses! Thankfully it ended up in a settlement and we saved a day in court...
Click Our picture of the month:
harvest:
2008 is an orange year, not a tangerine one
still live
What caught our attention:
free range kids: let's talk about that long-lost common sense!
What did we learn:
the ferocious censorship by the CIA on the Valerie Plame affair (the only affair in Washington without sex). Below are two pages of the book that Plame published entitled "fair game".
notice they left two dots... others are censored!