Monthly Archives: July 2011
The Three Stars
Yesterday, at a planning meeting for the Filipino “exposition” project at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, one of those wonderful moments of archival discovery happened. Wellington Lee, one of the guiding forces behind the Salinas Chinatown Cultural Center & Museum project produced a copy of The Three Stars, which his father had kept boxed [...]
“Edge to Edge Knowledge”
Seth Godin’s post, “From Asimov to Zelazny” provides a great reminder of how important it is to explore one’s area of interest or expertise deeply and widely. If you’re involved in providing information, curating a certain area of knowledge, or cultivating your expertise as an artist or writer in a particular genre, it behooves you [...]
Support Bindlestiff Studio
I still have fond memories of the one reading I did at Bindlestiff Studio back in 2004 (I think). Now they need your help. Check it out HERE.
“On Stewardship and Curation”
My article is up a little earlier than expected, on Doveglion.com.
“Ambition and the Filipina”
I have added Helen Rillera’s “Ambition and the Filipina” essay to the list of “Editorials and Essays” on the Commonwealth Cafe website. The essay was published in 1935 in the Philippines Mail newspaper. Rillera was one of the few Filipinas given space in the U.S. Filipino newspapers to publish her opinion, despite the fact that [...]
The Beauty of Print Originals
I seem to be turning into a librarian of sorts. I have a very rough and preliminary listing of U.S. Filipino newspapers in www.commonwealthcafe.info/ and I’m finally getting down to doing searches and typing up detailed listings of where digital, microfilm, and original copies are located. I’m starting in California because here I at least [...]
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