Road, Trip
Things are getting bad: Family problems, money, the itch, again. Should Manny Santiago end it now or revisit The Trip, and try to work it all out?
About
Sugardisaster is the side project of Writer / Photographer Manny Santiago, Founder / Editor of HESO, the Tokyo-based culture magazine.
Things To Do To Amuse Yourself Until You Die
I woke up in the middle of the night thinking it was raining and the clothes I had hanging outside to dry were getting wet. I sat up in bed and, listening to the stillness, I heard the definite pitter-patter of raindrops on the window, the trees, the pavement below. Yet when I went up [...]
Desire or something like it
You want something. But you don’t know what it is. So you wait. In the meantime you watch and listen and try to feel something and sense that somehow you are not dreaming all this up: It is a completely beautiful thing to sit in a place and have people bring you drinks while being [...]
Black Hole of Love
It’s interesting to note that the scientific phenomenon of a Black Hole is an area of space where the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing can escape after having fallen past the event horizon (boundary past which events can’t ever be observed – that which represents the maximum extent of the particle horizon – [...]
Daibutsu 大仏
The Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in (高徳院), a 13.35 meter high, 93 ton bronze statue of Amida Buddha cast in 1252, represents a high point of Jōdo shū Buddhism during the Kamakura period. The mudrā seen here is the Dhyana (上品上生), normally practiced during Zazen (坐禅) meditation. Besides ushering in Jōdo shū in the 12th century, [...]
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty pleasures. Everybody has at least one. Ask around. Your family and friends aren’t likely to spill it that quickly. It takes quite a few cocktails and not a little bit of tact to get it out of people you know well. Which stands to reason, after all, you know them. They have to face [...]
