Albertine is a novel written in 1886 by Norwegian painter and writer Christian Krohg. The novel is set in Norway’s capital, Christiania, and deals with the life of the unmarried seamstress Albertine, who is eventually […]
Author: R W
Rick Wayne is a cretinous mass who's dissected a cadaver, climbed the Great Wall, jumped from an airplane, designed sampling systems, swam naked in the Mediterranean, and felt the blast of a terrorist's bomb, although not in that order. When he's not vomiting words, he's planning his next adventure.
He can be found at RickWayne.com.
(Review) No Longer Human
A colleague of mine once wondered aloud, after seeing the poster of Kali I had brought from India, how it was anyone could worship such a wholly despicable image. It seems a fair question on […]
(Music) Cratediggers: Rare Pop Nihon
Kyu Sakamoto stands over popular music in Japan the way Frank Sinatra stands over popular music in the U.S. This song actually made it to the Western charts with the title “Sukiyaki,” which is a […]
Greetings from Japan
Running up through the torii gates, which mark the boundary between the sacred and the profane. There are two kinds of religious buildings in Japan: temples and shrines. Temples are Buddhist. Shrines are holy places, […]
Lionel Walden (American, 1861-1933) The Night Train
(Art) Macabre and Erotic Obsessions: Contemporary Japanese Illustration
I return to Japan on Wednesday. For those who don’t know, I’ve been splitting my time between Tokyo and the US for the last few years while I complete my third novel, Feast of Shadows, […]
(Fiction) Like Magic
“Look at this,” Hammond nodded down the road from where we were parked. A vintage black Jaguar purred as it rolled to a stop in front of the bistro down the street. From our vantage, […]
