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Chris Reads

Film Review: Ne Zha 2

7/10. Good. Nothing special taken as a movie in and of itself, yet an extraordinarily interesting movie, especially from the perspective of…

5d ago

5d ago

Book Review: Speaker for the Dead

8/10. Excellent. If I would recommend it is another question to be addressed. Sometimes I wish I had a more nuanced rating system and was…

Apr 18

Apr 18

A life unexamined: If you can’t answer these three questions, then you need to start thinking about…

I was recently speaking to someone about life partners: I said that I would find it difficult, in today’s culture and economy, to be with…

Apr 10

Apr 10

Wasted Youth

I’m a sentimental person. Perhaps that’s what draws me to writing; I can only tell the same story to my friends so many times before they…

Apr 3

Apr 3

Before Thirty

Jeremey sat on the S7 towards the airport. He had a friend who once said that planes were such a romantic form of transportation, but for…

Mar 27

Mar 27

No New Friends Pt. 3: Actually, I want to make a few new friends

Does anyone have truly novel ideas? Or do they just recycle old blog posts with a bit of a clean-up? I pose this question in the age of…

Mar 20

Mar 20

The rise of the pluri-state and the loaded meaning of nation

It seems that immigration is currently a hot political issue: the H1Bs, the US border, and Indian international students. Yet, within a…

Mar 13

Mar 13

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Benjamin was a curious child. He was born at 41 weeks on the second of January, at nearly nine pounds according to the hospital records…

Mar 7

Mar 7

A Higher Power

“Power good”

Feb 28

Feb 28

Chekhov’s Gun: flattering the viewer versus subverting expectations

Russian playwright Anton Chekhov was quoted as saying “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it…

Feb 20

Feb 20

Chris Reads

Chris Reads

Asian American, Canadian, and Chinese, living in China. Drop a comment about anything. I don’t have an anonymized SM account to share, but we’ll figure it out.

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