Hope this isn’t an inappropiate link, given that the power station crisis in Japan is still ongoing, but this is a good article on the country’s ambiguous relationship with nuclear power and how that manifests in popular culture. We see Godzilla as a man in a suit stomping over model towns, but to a country that faced Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there’s a deeper resonance to all those monsters…
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A year after the Haiti earthquake, and while things are still a long way from being back to normal, stories of hope are still emerging – here’s a BBC report on a survivor who, trapped in rubble, was inspired to get through the ideal by superheroes.
Meanwhile, in something that isn’t really connected but weirdly feels like it is, one of the Chilean miners has achieved his dream of going to Graceland. There’s probably a point to be made about how pop culture can start to become a modern mythology, but to be honest, I think the videos speak for themselves…
So, I get back yesterday, leaving Toronto to deal with the chaos caused by the G20 security arrangements and protests and now an earthquake. Ever get the feeling I came back at the right time?
