Don’t judge these books by their covers – the latest versions of the McDuff and Pevear-Volokhonsky translations
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Peirene Press
A Dangerous Method (2012)
★★★1/2
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Hanshin Tigers 2012
Hanshin Tigers have taken care of the important things for 2012 – new uniform designs have been announced, a new cartoony logo has been created, and a new naff English slogan have been thought up by the club’s PR department. Meanwhile an untried, untested manager has been appointed while a highly successful veteran coach (Ochiai) was passed over, and no new players have been signed.
But anyway, onto the important things.
The Slogan
“Focus on this play, this moment” has been replaced by the more serious, sombre “Go for the top”. This can only be a good thing – as far as naff English slogans go, the new one is fairly painless. 5/5
The Logo
This cartoon tiger is looking as perturbed as a cartoon tiger can look. Another sign of seriousness from the club. It is in similar colours to the 2011 logo. Pretty pleased with this. 5/5
All in all, the minor decisions seem to have been dealt with well. The major decisions – well, time will tell.
Hayaku through Japan
The Guardian, that bastion of liberal news reporting, quality sports coverage and, increasingly, decent travel guides, has now added another arrow to its quiver – retrotastic Japanese arcade games! Check out the travel section of the website, and search for Tokyo.
The Guardian‘s recent Tokyo travel guide reminded me of a video I posted a while ago, and want to repost - because it’s fab, and because I used to live in the area featured towards the end of the video (what seems like a lifetime ago) – the beautiful Inland Sea.
Best viewed through link in full screen HD:
