by David Sasaki | Apr 23, 2009 | English, Podcast (English)
Even something like that, just the sun setting behind a hill, that’s something you never see in the city. – Revaz The Western side of the DF-to-Queretaro highway fell in perfect gradient from a light blue overhead into a deep magenta, and then ended...
by David Sasaki | Mar 2, 2009 | English, Podcast (English)
I’m getting ready to write my review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Beautiful Struggle. In the same way that Kwame Dawes describes his style of writing as having a “reggae aesthetic”, it’s clear that Coates is trying to craft a hip-hop...
by David Sasaki | Feb 10, 2009 | English, Podcast (English)
There are many ways to get know another culture. My favorite? The house party. Even the seemingly most conservative of cultures transform into festive affairs of dance, drink, and drums when a house party is declared. There is something irresistibly human about...
by David Sasaki | Oct 21, 2008 | English, Podcast (English)
The second annual G5 Summit came and went in a blink of an eye. And by blink of an eye I mean a hangover the size of the Bronx. Fortunately the vast majority of photos have been filtered behind a wall of mutual assured G5 destruction. Although … there are rumors...
by David Sasaki | Aug 20, 2008 | English, Podcast (English)
I’m in Dhaka now, but here are some tunes I was listening to while in Calcutta. [podcast]http://el-oso.net/mp3/Calcutta.mp3[/podcast] Download (Right click, save as)
by David Sasaki | Aug 18, 2008 | English, Podcast (English), Video
“Look at them. We’re trying to save the world and they’re still arguing about technology.” It’s the kind of statement you hear routinely at wi-fi enabled hipster coffee houses in San Francisco and Brooklyn, but here we are in New Delhi,...