bookporn #14: elliot bay books, seattle

would you look at this place??!? honestly, I’m surprised there aren’t staff employed specially to mop up the great pools of drool that must accumulate on the floor on a daily basis. thanks for the tip! clearly, also, a bookstore which features reader recommendations like the following is one that ought to be frequented for [...]

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bookporn #13: bauhaus cafe, seattle

a glorious place to sit & read. floor-to-ceiling books, mobile ladder, excellent coffee & comfortable chairs — such is the stuff of a contented life

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sabbatical

currently jetting about on the west coast of America, so I’ll be writing more there than here for now. ps: any cool libraries/bookstores I should visit in San Francisco or Seattle?

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presently thinking

that the kind of heart-pounding anxiety I experienced while editing and writing up Nat’s detention case — deathly afraid of misquoting, misattributing or misrepresenting anything, and meticulously substantiating everything — perhaps should be approximately the sort of relationship historians have to their sources (primary or otherwise). Just because the threat of libel charges, arrest and [...]

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links for 2007-07-17

And The Lord Shall Smite Ye Who Bloggeth! OMG (viz., “a shorthand way to take the Lord’s name in vain”)–this is hysterical: Restored Church of God holds forth on evils of blogging & internet delinquency. funnily enough I agree w/ them wrt 90% of teen blogging (i.e. largely profligate & witless) (tags: hilarious religion cullstupidpeopleplease [...]

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making sense of nathaniel tan’s arrest

was up until 5am last night redrafting my short history of Nat’s arrest into an article for theCicak, who ran a mightily edited version of it today. the part of the essay regarding the Deputy Minister of Internal Security is especially incoherent, because much of it’s been fearfully excised by my co-editors. and the whole [...]

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yours truly, BA (Hons), MPhil (Cantab)

the thesis managed to dredge up a first-class, so this is cool & I will, alas, be forced to adorn myself with convocation frippery this october at behest of the parents. meanwhile I have managed to acquire a glorious 4 volume set of the Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, which I will be consuming in [...]

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links for 2007-07-15

Image: Hawaii.jpg what’s cool is, that ominous-looking black bit is where I’m DEFINITELY going to be this august (tags: awesome photo travel)

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catching up

also, I’ve been absent from the blogosphere for a bit, due to transit, end-of-term winding-down, and other more personal reasons. in belated response to a meme over at progressivehistorians, here are 8 random facts about me. unlike nonpartisan, though, all 8 of these will be true I don’t care much for shopping. Around April to [...]

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on the unjust detention of nathaniel tan

I’ve had a lesson in history-writing on the go, so to speak, as well as an instructive example of the difference between a chronicle and a history. A friend and acquaintance of mine was recently arrested without notification or going through proper legal procedures by the Malaysian police (yay Malaysia). Here’s an ongoing history (crossposted [...]

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