Category Archives: Japan

The Republic of Calipan

22 Sunday Apr 2012

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California secedes from the U.S. and joins forces with Japan to become a non-aligned, pacifist, non-nuclear-powered, green, tech-producing powerhouse in global digital and computer science.

Here’s the flag of the new most prosperous nation on Earth.

I hereby announce my Candidacy for General Secretary of The Republic of Calipan to anybody living in Aztlan or the Land of the Rising Sun who agrees Calipan exists.

Books Read in 2005

31 Saturday Dec 2005

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Hard-Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World, Wild Sheep Chase, Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore [Umibe no Kafuka]

Haruki Murakami

The Woman in the Dunes

Kobo Abe

Friend of the Earth

T.C. Boyle

Idoru

William Gibson

Airframe

Michael Crichton

The General of the Dead Army

Ismail Kadare,

Harry Potter(s) and The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Order of the Phoenix

J.K. Rowling

The Setting Sun and No Longer Human, Blue Bamboo short stories

Dazai Osamu

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

Mark Haddon

A Mature Woman

Saiichi Maruya

Rashomon and other stories

Akataguwe

Non-Fiction:

Imperial Overstretch

Jim Tarbell

significant parts of Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital

and the eco-biography Planetwalker, John Francis