Sakura Matsuri Festival 2013
So this weekend I had the pleasure of wandering around the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens with a friend at their Sakura Matsuri Festival, which was a combination of the annual cherry blossom festival plus...
Greenpoint Oil Spill – Happy Earth Day
I live in a Greenpoint, Brooklyn neighborhood in the northwestern corner of the Greenpoint area, sandwiched between the BQE, Calvary Cemetery and the East River industrial zone. It’s a lovely little place with...
Happy 420 – Carurú De Camarón
So in honor of the annual celebration that is 420, I whipped up a little something something in the kitchen–Carurú De Camarón. And before you ask, no, it was not a “420 dinner,”...
On Racism in America
[Editor’s Note: Offensive language follows] Did you catch the latest white supremacist twitterganza following the MTV movie awards? If not, then check out Public Shaming’s Tweets of Privilege post here. I would say...
Axe-wielding Fundamentalist Attacks Indiana Planned Parenthood
27-year old Benjamin Curell was arrested yesterday for breaking in and vandalizes Bloomington, Indiana Planned Parenthood offices with an axe. Claimed his actions were motivated by religious fundamentalism, as he said they “kill...
Anthropocene Fundamentalism
As I’ve written about before, I had the change to present some of my work on the Anthropocene at the 2013 Western Political Science Association (WPSA) conference in Hollywood recently. For someone writing...
