Anne McKnight
@annekmck.bsky.social
bibliophile, minimalist, literary historian of proto-subcultures (science, ero-guro, first-person selves). UCR prof, J->E translator. Opinions belong to me or someone I ventriloquize. Coming in 2025 ~Long Take: Kurosawa Akira as World Cinéphile (Minnesota)
Still an absolute legend. Nothing like All the Things lined up in a single space...
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Still an absolute legend. Nothing like All the Things lined up in a single space...
Repeat nester in the manzanita tree!!
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Repeat nester in the manzanita tree!!
Shinjuku station, 3pm Saturday. Godzillas as well as frogs, many teachers stepping up to the mike.
October 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Shinjuku station, 3pm Saturday. Godzillas as well as frogs, many teachers stepping up to the mike.
Murdle! True crime word puzzles.
October 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Murdle! True crime word puzzles.
The amazing, powerful and charming Kaji Meiko at the Egyptian for screenings of Lady Snowblood. She sang an entire song, a cappella!
October 3, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The amazing, powerful and charming Kaji Meiko at the Egyptian for screenings of Lady Snowblood. She sang an entire song, a cappella!
4) Rubio hysterically jumping into punitive mode: "QUESTION: I’m asking about the ... justification for the revocation of [Khalil’s] visa. Was there…evidence of…support for terrorism? … RUBIO: Well, this … individual was… he negotiator –- … Negotiating over what? That’s a crime in and of itself …. "
September 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
4) Rubio hysterically jumping into punitive mode: "QUESTION: I’m asking about the ... justification for the revocation of [Khalil’s] visa. Was there…evidence of…support for terrorism? … RUBIO: Well, this … individual was… he negotiator –- … Negotiating over what? That’s a crime in and of itself …. "
3) RFK's wellness rhetoric about cleansing and toxins is seeping in here: "HHS Secretary …Kennedy… is quoted as stating, … “[i]n recent years, the censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence.”
September 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
3) RFK's wellness rhetoric about cleansing and toxins is seeping in here: "HHS Secretary …Kennedy… is quoted as stating, … “[i]n recent years, the censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence.”
2) how they dredged up names: "Notably, no direction or definition as to what “supporting terrorist organizations” was provided. ...AD Hatch was told by DHS leadership (…) to review the names of student protestors on the Canary Mission website, which contains a database of over 5K individuals."
September 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
2) how they dredged up names: "Notably, no direction or definition as to what “supporting terrorist organizations” was provided. ...AD Hatch was told by DHS leadership (…) to review the names of student protestors on the Canary Mission website, which contains a database of over 5K individuals."
1) This case-–perhaps the most important ever to fall within ... this district court–-squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in the US ... have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”
September 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
1) This case-–perhaps the most important ever to fall within ... this district court–-squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in the US ... have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”
TIL, from a physicist, that "quarks" came from Finnegan's Wake! Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's The Disordered Cosmos: "Here is how physicists use it [nomenclature]: “my faves, the quarks, get their name from a line in Irish modernist writer James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, ‘Three quarks for Muster Mark!’”
September 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
TIL, from a physicist, that "quarks" came from Finnegan's Wake! Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's The Disordered Cosmos: "Here is how physicists use it [nomenclature]: “my faves, the quarks, get their name from a line in Irish modernist writer James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, ‘Three quarks for Muster Mark!’”
“it would forever unfit him for the duties of a slave;” & “as to himself, learning would do him no good, but probably, a great deal of harm—making him disconsolate and unhappy.” “If you learn him now to read, he’ll want to know how to write; &, this accomplished, he’ll be running away with himself.”
September 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“it would forever unfit him for the duties of a slave;” & “as to himself, learning would do him no good, but probably, a great deal of harm—making him disconsolate and unhappy.” “If you learn him now to read, he’ll want to know how to write; &, this accomplished, he’ll be running away with himself.”
From the explanation of why he wrote an autobio after not wanting to personalize: ""I see, too, that there are special reasons why I should write my own biography, in preference to employing another to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the enslaved people are also on trial.”"
September 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
From the explanation of why he wrote an autobio after not wanting to personalize: ""I see, too, that there are special reasons why I should write my own biography, in preference to employing another to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the enslaved people are also on trial.”"
Went to see this amazing space in the "flesh." In the Richmond, a former Christian science church. Anyone can take a tour on a Friday, and see servers humming, hear about open access and digitizing practices, and get treated maybe to ice cream and talks by visitors from Europe.
August 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Went to see this amazing space in the "flesh." In the Richmond, a former Christian science church. Anyone can take a tour on a Friday, and see servers humming, hear about open access and digitizing practices, and get treated maybe to ice cream and talks by visitors from Europe.
I am too hasty and taste-oriented to be a good food stylist, but I just made carrot-caramelized onion-gochujang ポタージュ (potage), silky Japanese style, and man was it good... and the color!
July 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I am too hasty and taste-oriented to be a good food stylist, but I just made carrot-caramelized onion-gochujang ポタージュ (potage), silky Japanese style, and man was it good... and the color!
LA civic unrest scale, now.
June 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
LA civic unrest scale, now.
Big turnout in Glendale CA. Fair number of kids, tolerant dogs and tons of honking, right by the galleria. Also Juanita Chavez and a band.
April 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Big turnout in Glendale CA. Fair number of kids, tolerant dogs and tons of honking, right by the galleria. Also Juanita Chavez and a band.
ah, looks like a diff display on phone than laptop, maybe not a change; I initially looked on phone. I see the photo only under Photos and Videos (below). Not as the BG illustration for the landing page (or whatever it is called), where it appears on your screen shot. Def not there, on my laptop.
March 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM
ah, looks like a diff display on phone than laptop, maybe not a change; I initially looked on phone. I see the photo only under Photos and Videos (below). Not as the BG illustration for the landing page (or whatever it is called), where it appears on your screen shot. Def not there, on my laptop.
Shitsmachi river view, courtesy of Gaijin Mommy.
March 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Shitsmachi river view, courtesy of Gaijin Mommy.
The utter design and plenty of the National Diet Library, gets me every time.
March 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The utter design and plenty of the National Diet Library, gets me every time.
Wow, 30 years ago this week. This nhk report featured Asahara singing...I guess 30 years is enough time to pass that the back catalog of weirdly everyday yet absurdist stuff can come out...
March 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Wow, 30 years ago this week. This nhk report featured Asahara singing...I guess 30 years is enough time to pass that the back catalog of weirdly everyday yet absurdist stuff can come out...
Am delighted to participate at this event tomorrow Mon Mar 10 at CSU-SB, on performing arts in the incarceration camps. Thanks to my lovely colleague Kirk Kanesaka, who organized, and will be doing a dance popular in camp.. link to Muramoto's film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDqK...
March 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Am delighted to participate at this event tomorrow Mon Mar 10 at CSU-SB, on performing arts in the incarceration camps. Thanks to my lovely colleague Kirk Kanesaka, who organized, and will be doing a dance popular in camp.. link to Muramoto's film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDqK...
Elon Musk as Mad Scientist, complete with disastrous self-driving car and missed message about humane use of technology.
February 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Elon Musk as Mad Scientist, complete with disastrous self-driving car and missed message about humane use of technology.
So many people out in NoHo! Yet so many more stopping to ask what the protest is about 💦
February 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
So many people out in NoHo! Yet so many more stopping to ask what the protest is about 💦
instead of Ashura, for instance? Not sure, but I think it's pretty conventional in art history. I read a bunch about the "asuras" of Kofuku-ji for a project and that's how it always seemed to be spelled...
January 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
instead of Ashura, for instance? Not sure, but I think it's pretty conventional in art history. I read a bunch about the "asuras" of Kofuku-ji for a project and that's how it always seemed to be spelled...
A beautiful catharsis, the David Bowie mixtape movie marking the anniversary of his death ... but for the menacing normie interviewer pricking him by satellite.
January 18, 2025 at 6:12 AM
A beautiful catharsis, the David Bowie mixtape movie marking the anniversary of his death ... but for the menacing normie interviewer pricking him by satellite.