Just arrived, new book on Topeng, thanks to Irving Chan Johnson. My chapter is on I Ketut Rinda, one of the great performers of the mid-C20th.

Our Australian Socirt for Asian Humanities conference is a huge success @asah-sydney.bsky.social

I’ll see that and raise you

New arrival

Harsh Australian winters

Da Nang at Sunset

Current state of air in the city

My back deck today

The home of cricket

Grateful to my neighbours for cheering things up in gloomy times

This doesn’t necessarily send out the message they intend to convey

Must be working, measurements have gone down:

Classic Monash SEA Centre publication from 1987

AI fail

No zoom, right next to where I was sitting

Lovely new book by my colleague on the Multilingual Archive project, Josh Stenberg. Hitherto little-known Chinese poems written in early C20th Australia

Goes well with this:

Our local school has it right

Looks like the British mind also can’t comprehend a rational system

Compare these in Huahine

Reminds me of this

Coming up in Singapore’s Tuesday, revisiting issues of Southeast Asian cultural history that I first looked at 30 years ago

This pro-Trump piece even more unhinged. A good reminder of how Murdoch has helped put Trump in

Vaitahu/Resolution Bay

Two stories that appeared on my timeline together