Third Culture Kid(s)

From Stephanie Zacharek, in today’s Salon column:
Lots of people are drawn to Hong Kong action movies for the action, and Lord knows that’s a big enough draw. But over the years I’ve gotten far more pleasure from the actors in Hong Kong films than I have from even the most gorgeously staged gunfights.
Does this give […]

The Odd:
Well, it’s not really “odd” - more interesting. When Google Books first hit the Internet, it seemed of limited usefulness. It helps if you’re thinking about buying a book, but beyond that it didn’t seem very helpful.
I discovered a few months later that it had some usefulness in academic translation work, particularly […]

Both metaphorically and literally: 2.0 is definitely making his little presence known more and more (although every time M. tries to get a feel, he typically goes all stealth on us.  As I recall, MM used to do this too, in the early days, until she decided she had enough room to move around and […]

Nick Jr. is starting a new show to teach Mandarin (ala Dora) in October.

This could either be very, very good, or very, very bad. I’ve been wanting a show like this for a very long time (Japanese would be nice, but my bizarre pseudo-Chinese upbringing makes this just as good - plus I know […]

So, I’m at our local Japanese grocery store this morning, picking up some seasoned seaweed for M. (”seasoned seaweed” sounds just terrible in English, but I can’t remember what this stuff is in Japanese. He loves it - no, he LOVES it; I’m a little indifferent, myself).
I notice that the store has really shrunk. […]

We’re in the middle of our visit from K., which is going well enough considering she’s 16 years old. She’s a sweet kid and demonstrates nothing short of infinite patience with MM, who’s adopted her as her New Very Best Friend. The first couple of days after she leaves could be a little […]