For the past few years, I’ve dabbled in growing bonsai. Well, I’m better at killing them than growing them so far. I have a soft heart for Walmart and Lowes clearance rack orphans, but they tend not to have the best survival chances. Bonsai is a Japanese method of miniaturizing trees and shaping them into…
Author: Chris Kincaid
Myths, Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, and Urban Legends Defined and Explained
The differences among myths, folk tales, fairy tales, and urban legends can be a bit confusing, but understanding the differences matters. Anime pulls from a large pool of Japanese stories, and sometimes anime can be tough to fully understand without a background in these stories. In fact, modern story telling owes their plots, character types,…
World War II Cartoons Demonizing Japan
Let’s talk a bit about war and racism. I debated how to approach this subject. I considered going academic with examinations on how identity is defined by demonizing the “other.” While I’ll talk about it, I decided to just have a conversation with you about these topics and present a cartoon from the WWII period…