Archive for March, 2007

New Translations: another place to get published

New Translations: A Journal is “a recently created publication venue for newly translated and retranslated works of literary, historical, and philosophical merit. Most of our materials will be made available in free, online editions, while other works will be printed in serial editions. The first issue will appear in November of 2007.” If you’ve got [...]

Monkey madness strikes Tokyo for second year

This is just beautiful, man: Jailbreak Ape: Escaped “Orangutan” Terrifies Children in Tokyo Zoo Drill. Spiegel Online is exceedingly charitable in its description of the event: “A zoo in western Tokyo held an animal escape drill Tuesday. A zoo worker in an animal costume played the part of a runaway orangutan — and was practically [...]