Lady Gaga on New Year’s Eve Kohaku Uta Gassen
Just like Annika Sorenstam and Paula Creamer before her, Lady Gaga delivered a great performance in a big event in Japan: the New Year's Eve countdown/musical extravaganza on NHK known as Kohaku Uta Gassen.Somebody uploaded the closing montage fr...
On the Conservation of Matter and Greed
Just checking in with a little eco-commentary from my favorite philosopher scamps.
How Low Can the AP Go?
I haven't made the effort to identify who's responsible for the latest U.S. Women's Open preview from the Associated Press, but talk about using old talking points! The title: "Americans No Longer Dominate U.S. Women's Open." The theme: how badly Am...
Good Asian American, Bad Asian; or, What Do Responses to the LPGA Reveal about Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in America Today?
Consider for a moment the following thought experiment: what if Michelle Wie had been the player to kick off the LPGA season with back-to-back wins for the 1st time in 44 years, instead of Ai Miyazato? Wouldn't we have been treated to breathless spec...
Paging Shane Bacon
I usually reserve this kind of title for established golf journalists who write a boneheaded column, but Shane Bacon really brought teh stupid yesterday over at Golf Fanhouse, so he can join Ron Sirak, Steve Elling, Gary Van Sickle, and Jason Sobel in ...
HIMEKA Watch: YouTube Edition
If you aren't yet a fan of French Canadian anime songstress HIMEKA (Catherine St-Onge), you will be after checking out the following clips from youtube!Here's her victory performance at the Animax Anison Grand Prix contest, with English subtitles of th...
Speaking of Golf in Asia…
Tim Maitland is one of the best golf writers out there. He was probably the only one of the pros writing on golf to call Ai Miyazato's breakthrough early this season (check out his profile of and interview with her from the HSBC Women's Champions even...
sf@SF Is Back!
Just a little public service announcement for those who come to Mostly Harmless looking for stuff on sf, anime, and other aspects of American and transnational popular culture: I've got students in both my undergraduate classes this semester signing u...
Mata-ne, Momo-chan: Ueda Going Back to the JLPGA for the Rest of the Season
From Momoko Ueda's post-final round interview at the Canadian Women's Open:MOMOKO UEDA: (via translator) This is going to be my last event in the mainland, but if there are any other events to play, I'd like to play them.Looks like Momo-chan has decide...
Incorporating the Solheim Cup into a World Cup or Dismantling it for the Olympics?
In what's become a bienniel tradition, golf writing's heavyweights have weighed in with plans to improve the Solheim Cup, from Gary Van Sickle to Ron Sirak (while Randall Mell positions himself among the traditionalists who like the Europe vs. America ...
