Legendary anime director Shinichiro Watanabe is normally associated with cult classics like “Cowboy Bebop”, “Samurai Champloo” and “Space […]
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Makoto Shinkai’s first mainstream success, “Voices Of A Distant Star”, is a 25-minute anime short released in 2002. […]
Imagine an Afghanistan in which the fighting is done by elite teams of soldiers who are actually werewolves. […]
“After The Rain” tells the story of Akira Tachibana, a 17 year old high school student and gifted […]
Black Lagoon originally aired as an anime series in Japan in 2006, with a follow-up mini-series in 2010. […]
Originally aired on the TBS and Adult Swim networks in the US in early 2018, Final Space follows […]
I recently read a blogpost by Neil F Foster entitled “Fired for using the wrong pronouns”. In it, […]
PRESCRIPT: Recently, I was invited to give a presentation on the theme of “Welcoming the Stranger: Exodus, Exile, and Migration – Effects on the Current World” at the Annual Meeting of the Victorian Association of Texts and Traditions Teachers (VATTT). Texts and Traditions is a stream within the Religious Studies curriculum in Victorian high schools that examines religious traditions from the standpoint of their sacred texts, the literary forms in which those texts appear, and how those texts and their interpretation inform the historical and contemporary experience of different faith communities. Here is the text of my presentation; however, because the presentation itself was delivered in a less formal manner, there was some ad hoc editing and re-arranging of the text as I went along. This is, as it were, the “full and formal” version.
