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I have a piece of flash fiction in issue 5 of MacQ, a.k.a. MacQueen’s Quinterly.

READ IT HERE

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I’m happy to see my short story “Mazuku” published in Volume IV of Apricity Magazine (University of Texas, Austin).

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My story “Mazuku,” on the theme of survivor guilt, will soon be published in volume IV of the print edition of Apricity Magazine, out of the University of Texas-Austin. It is available to read now, via the link below:
https://apricitymagazine.com/portfoli...

Mazuku

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I made the video of the song “2020” by the Boston band LOVELY while in COVID-19 confinement/lockdown in Paris, utilizing and/or manipulating what is to my best knowledge public domain and open source footage. My thanks to the generous Mike “Beeple-Crap” Winkelmann for the use of two open source clips.

LOVELY:

Jim Keough – Voice

Rick Jones – Bass

Craig Adams – Guitar

Jack Clark – Battery

Paul Delano – Guitar

Track released 28 March, 2020

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After reading Ōyama Shirō’s memoir, A Man With No Talents (San’ya gakeppuchi nikki), I became interested in this Tokyo district for day laborers, now popular among foreign visitors for its budget accommodations. In Blair McBride’s Digital Journal piece “Mysterious Past Meets Uncertain Future in Tokyo’s Sanya District” I discovered the area’s dark history as a ghetto for the “Burakumin” underclass, as well as an Edo Period execution grounds. Considering that the Japanese government virtually erased all references to Sanya on area maps during the 1960’s, I decided to look up the area on a 10,000:1 scale map of Tokyo, using the Google Translate application on my phone to superimpose translations on the camera’s live image. The application produced strange results, trying to decipher not only the kanji characters and their context to one another, but individual radicals, or kanji elements within a greater kanji. In the above video, words pop on and off of the screen at a dizzying pace, resulting in a stream of “pseudo-consciousness.” Glimpses of hidden truth, or just surreal fun?

in movie

Fukushima, has North melting

Wings

testimony

the Sanya land

South of thousands of living

their Graves

the village

Okada the sin gust

Tech times of blood

Sanya alternating ago

serum

Park in squamous

the distribution consistent

Tokyo sum gust

Tech ratio roller

You turn so clearly

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Today, on Day of the Seafarer, I would like to recognise the hard work of seafarers around the world, and the efforts of the International Seafarers’ Welfare & Assistance Network (ISWAN) in providing support to them. Seafarers live a precarious life, often working in unsafe conditions with little or no job security. Hundreds find themselves stateless as their ships are abandoned by unscrupulous owners (the subject of my next novel). As a result, their mental and physical health suffers, and they find themselves living as prisoners aboard unsafe vessels, unable to support their loved ones at home.

Don’t forget the men and women who work our seas!

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Today, on Day of the Seafarer, I would like to recognise the hard work of seafarers around the world, and the efforts of the International Seafarers’ Welfare & Assistance Network (ISWAN) in providing support to them. Seafarers live a precarious life, often working in unsafe conditions with little or no job security. Hundreds find themselves stateless as their ships are abandoned by unscrupulous owners (the subject of my next novel). As a result, their mental and physical health suffers, and they find themselves living as prisoners aboard unsafe vessels, unable to support their loved ones at home.

Don’t forget the men and women who work our seas!

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After reading Ōyama Shirō’s memoir, A Man With No Talents (San’ya gakeppuchi nikki), I became interested in this Tokyo district for day laborers, now becoming popular among foreign visitors for its budget accommodations. In Blair McBride’s Digital Journal piece “Mysterious Past Meets Uncertain Future in Tokyo’s Sanya District” I discovered the area’s dark history as a ghetto for the “Burakumin” underclass, as well as an Edo Period execution grounds. Considering that the Japanese government virtually erased all references to Sanya on area maps during the 1960’s, I decided to look up the area on a 10,000:1 scale map of Tokyo I own. I tried using the Google Translate application on my phone, producing strange results as the app tried to decipher not only the Kanji characters and their context to one another, but individual radicals, or Kanji elements within a greater Kanji. In the above video, words pop on the screen at a dizzying pace, resulting in a stream of pseudo-consciousness. Perhaps the limitations of character recognition can reveal glimpses of a hidden truth. Or just surreal fun.

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Fukushima, has North melting

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station follow me

clinic swirls

will She Doo be

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Seoul

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giggle

Green welfare Center

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gust

thousand residential metal Hasidic

Hasidic town Hall

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neo angel

send little boy remain

ship Frost, over side

Tokyo Waterside line

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horsefly’s Hall

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residential Christian part

strawberries

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the pups

the world

retribution in yen

discount it

teeth

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Nico

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Wings

testimony

the Sanya land

oral South of thousands of living

their Graves

the village

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Tech times of blood

Sanya alternating ago

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the future sin

the distribution consistent

Tokyo sum gust

Tech ratio roller

You turn so clearly

country old

conclusions

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After reading Ōyama Shirō’s memoir, A Man With No Talents (San’ya gakeppuchi nikki), I became interested in this Tokyo district for day laborers, now becoming popular among foreign visitors for its budget accommodations. In Blair McBride’s Digital Journal piece “Mysterious Past Meets Uncertain Future in Tokyo’s Sanya District” I discovered the area’s dark history as a ghetto for the “Burakumin” underclass, as well as an Edo Period execution grounds. Considering that the Japanese government virtually erased all references to Sanya on area maps during the 1960’s, I decided to look up the area on a 10,000:1 scale map of Tokyo I own. I tried using the Google Translate application on my phone, producing strange results as the application tried to decipher not only the Kanji characters and their context to one another, but individual radicals, or Kanji elements within a greater Kanji. In the above video, words pop on the screen at a dizzying pace, resulting in a stream of pseudo-consciousness.

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“Collectionneur” 39cm x 26cm (entomological box, #1 1/2 coil spring animal trap, Morpho Cypris butterfly) ©2017 Tim Bridwell

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