A short story by Forrest Maynock
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Cheap Quality Goodness
By Forrest Maynock The life of a college student is one of a constant lack of sleep and proper meals. Thankfully, Japan has a wide selection of cheap and accessible beef bowl (chain) restaurants. Perhaps the most convenient aspect of these sorts of restaurants is that they are open 24 hours a day all week […]
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Man in a Room
Monologue by Forrest Maynock
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Nostalgia Fuel & Creative Decay
By Forrest Maynock American culture exists in a time of an unprecedented abuse of nostalgia. From the movies we watch to the food we eat, nostalgia dominates. I grew up in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Nostalgia was present at that time, but it was more of a longing that the older people around […]
Culture shock is a fear that everyone seems to have, but many also wish to experience it firsthand through travel. I was one of those people. When I first arrived in Japan, I was a babe lost in the woods of language barriers and cultural differences. I was wandering around Haneda Airport for most of my 2-hour layover, second-guessing the directions that were given to me. When I arrived at Okayama Airport, I spent 5 minutes trying to translate the name of my hotel to the cab driver. The first day of the Discovery Program’s orientation was spent doing mountains of paperwork that felt so unnecessary at the time.
Every once in a while, there is a film that packs so much emotion and personal connection for me that I feel an urgent need to lay my thoughts out in written words; Nobody Knows (2004) is one of those films.
The Polyphony 