NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO

I am currently working on an exciting comic project for a friend of mine. My brothers Jack and Jeremy are joining me in the project (and spearheading it), which will look at Guam's political status in a very new way, through the unlikely narrative of sports. To comic will follow the story of Roque Babauta, a Chamorro basketball player who gets wrapped up in national and international politics. As part of it, I wrote up a concept draft which outlined everything the way I was seeing it. Jeremy has gone on to shake things up and make flow better and add in more realism and details. Part of it is a sequence where a sports commentator is ruminating on the connection between politics and sports. Here is the first draft of it: Too often even we who love sports, dismiss it as a diversion, as an opiate for the masses, a distraction from the world. But sports is the world itself. It is not a diversion, but a reflection, a mirror image. The wars between na

To the question of whether or not Hawai'i is an occupied nation, the answer is simple, hunggan, sen hunggan, gof annok yan ti puniyon. But this is an important reminder of how the truth does not out, how what can be proven, what can be shown to clearly provide an understanding of the contours of reality does nothing on its own. You can show people things, communicate them to them, show them the structure of violence that leads to displacement, suppression, but for their own lazy and selfish reasons, because of the way their own privilege, their own pleasure may be tied to the denial of that truth, they will resist it. They will pretend it means nothing, they will drape the islands in as many American flags as possible, as many bases as possible, as many Wal-Marts as possible in order to cover that truth up, to blot it out, the make is go away, to try to banish it. ****************** Aloha to the US: Is Hawai'i an occupied nation? By Taylor Kate Brown   BBC New

Sherlock Season 4, "Frightening, tough, emotional upheaval" James Hibberd  Posted March 27 2015 — 1:18 PM EDT Entertainment Weekly Interviewing ultra-secretive Steven Moffat about  Sherlock  is a tricky endeavor, given that the writer-producer would prefer to say nothing at all about what will happen in the show’s hugely anticipated fourth season. But during our wide-ranging recent interview, the  Sherlock  co-creator gave us a few hints about what to expect when the BBC/PBS Masterpiece fan-favorite series returns. Plus, he addressed the long wait between seasons, took a little dig at that  other  Holmes show—CBS drama  Elementary— and even gave a surprisingly passionate defense of  Fifty Shades of Grey . ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So, what do you feel comfortable telling us about season 4—or “series” 4, as it’s called in the U.K.? STEVEN MOFFAT : There are answers coming to questions which nobody has asked. There’s one thing that no one has really brought up

This BBC article connects so many different things, I am tempted to write three pages linking everything together, but I also feel that the disparate parts also speak for themselves. How poetic is it that things like climate change, global warming and the rising tides in the Pacific become the means through which things long buried and denied like Japanese imperialism and American nuclear atrocities are brought to the surface? ************************** June 2014 Last updated at 01:59 Climate change helps seas disturb Japanese war dead By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News     Rising sea levels have disturbed the skeletons of soldiers killed on the Marshall Islands during World War Two.  Speaking at UN climate talks in Bonn, the Island's foreign minister said that high tides had exposed one grave with 26 dead. The minister said the bones were most likely those of Japanese tr