Joshua Keidan
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Mar.26.2013

Book Review: Sandman Preludes and Nocturnes

Neil Gaiman's Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes is not your father's comic book, unless you have a really cool father. Nor is it the type of comic book that you got beat up for reading as a kid. It is a graphic novel. For those who do not know what a graphic novel is , it is exactly like a...

Jan.16.2013

Cooking With Failure

The post cooking scene was one only forensic expert could love. Various splatter marks covered the wall. It was the sign of a great and mighty struggle, one in which could be only victims and a callous perpetrator. Yet there was no call to the FBI, no slow speed chase that was interrupting a...

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Dec.16.2012

making the world a little better

A lot of thoughts have been running through my head following the tragedies in Newtown, Colorado and many others cities over the past year. Sometimes words cannot explain the deep feeling of collective grief we as a nation, but not only that but also all people seem to feel, especially after the...

Dec.15.2012

Taking the blue pill

Maybe the Mayans had it right. Maybe there will be a giant alien finger in the sky hitting the CTRL+Alt+Delete button on December 21st. Maybe the earlier promises of the world being taking over by the Toronto raptors by that self-proclaimed prophet guy in California is not...

Nov.24.2012

Book Review: A Cold Day For Murder

If you are anything like me your knowledge of Alaska is limited to two simple facts. It is cold there It is located left of Hawaii and either in the middle of the Pacific Ocean or near Mexico. You find out considerably more is true in this Edgar winning mystery by Dana Stabenow. The story...

Nov.23.2012

The Path: A Very Rainy Thanksgiving

A small smile crept across my face. The young woman sitting next to me reminded the other people at the table we were eating at that is was Thanksgiving and then translated what she said into Chinese. I looked down at the red plastic tray which I had been eating from and a twinge of disappointment...

Nov.15.2012

The Path: The keeper of thoughts

The keeper of thoughts lay lazily on my desk. With its covers closed it seemed far warmer than I felt right at these moments as I cradled my coffee, as much for the warmth it gave my hands as for the life giving nectar of wholesome goodness that the cup held inside. I wanted to add more thoughts to...

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Oct.18.2012

English from the teacher's desk

My first real test of Hebrew, my second language, was a matter of life or death. At the time I didn’t have the opportunity to point this out to my professor, who promise this would never be the case to a scared college sophomore struggling to put the sounds of the language in a pattern that would...

Sep.15.2012

Book Review: 1Q84

There are certain types of readers for whom 1Q84, the latest novel written by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami , is not for. I am just going to list the types because if you find yourselves among these types you will not like this book. You will read it, complain that this...

Sep.07.2012

The Path: Walking in the Night

Night time here is my favorite time of the day. The slow pace of life punctuated by the occasional honking of the horn and the sun melting me into a human puddle gets replaced by a nearly dead quiet. Sometimes a car passes by but usually the only sounds I here are from friends sitting...

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Sep.07.2012

The Path: Walking in the Night

Aug.19.2012

The Path: Typhoon Daze (2)

Day broke over the city I was working in. I expected scenes of a city scarred by the brute force of Mother Nature. The city next to us had received the brunt of the typhoon and there was tragically one or two people killed . However as I opened my window shades I saw, well, nothing. The sun shone...

Aug.17.2012

The Path: Typhoon Daze (1)

Typhoons, natural or manmade, have an exquisite sense of timing. They usually find me when I am relaxed and happy and thus unprepared. Of course when I was leaving the hotel last Wednesday I did not know that there was a typhoon when I left, but it explains a lot. I left the hotel I was...

Aug.13.2012

Book Review: Two Shots

Sometimes a book is just a good read. Something to guiltily pass the waning days of summer with instead of doing all the things one you had planned to do in May and June. If you are in need to spend the time reading instead facing the routine of facing the real world, Two Shots is perfect for you....

Aug.04.2012

Critical Reveiwing

The center of attention needs me. In fact you would be hard pressed to find any rational, sane , well adjusted person that would think anything other than “The whole concept of ‘being in the spotlight’ , perhaps light itself, was created specifically for Josh.” , however it is quite easy to find...

About Joshua

Worked in politics, hated it, so I went to teach abroad. Now I am spending my time collecting research on Cambodia in between teacheing stints. Some of my friends accuse me of using my research as an excuse to travel to neat new places. They are sometimes...

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