Wednesday, December 04, 2024

So far, Nazi hunter Simon Weisenthal's wiki got the most blog hits over the Thanksgiving holidays--followed by my internet movie reviews.

I don't know where my blog audience is--though I used to have a widget that showed the most followers from France, and someone in Japan has been consistently buying my fiction--but its probably too small a sample.
On the upside, Irrawaddy coverage is much increased, and a regional magazine, Himal Southasia, has better Myanmar news wraps and interesting arts posts, like the video documentary about actress San San Aye.
On the whole, we need a new paradigm --a systems view of Burma/Myanmar.
The Resistance in Myanmar is taking new outposts and towns, but the regime is using killer airstrikes and pounding N. Myanmar and Rakhine/Arakan and China is laying groundwork for PRC/PLA boots on the ground--it's a concerning picture.

After a while all the rom coms sound the same--not like reading Abraham Verghese's novels.

The rom com writers seem to have a groupy language and writing style--somehave annoying abbreviations, such as "grabbed 2 waters,"...