Natsukashisa no amari

Time lapse photography of Japan. I know it's called Hayaku ie 'quickly', but is it necessary to give the impression that the Japanese move like cockroaches all the time?

Japanese town logos with kanji and explanations. Cool.
( Cut for three days of nice things )

Taxonomy is not discussion, but it *is* fun

Magic realism-- does it have to be in Spanish?

Because when it's not, I often have a hard time disentangling it from Urban Fantasy. The one Nalo Hopkinson I've read is closer to Charles de Lint than to GGM. My understanding was that the events of Magic Realism are perfectly mundane: the fantastic is how they *look* to the people in the book. Ergo, The Life of Pi is MR to me but Robertson Davies is not; and the jury is still out on Little, Big. Also must reread my Randolph Stows, though anything that happens in Australia seems magic by definition.