Absent Friends
This week’s F5 question is Morgaine’s.
Well, I’ve been thinking about absent friends – the people you just aren’t in contact with any more, for whatever reason. Maybe it was intentional, on either of your parts, maybe there is something unresolved between you, maybe you just lost a phone number or address and you would [...]
I met a religious patriarch, nah nah. But it was anticlimactic.
Hey all. So last night, I had plans to go to a movie, but it was starting late so I went to a nice little cafe for masala chai and banana bread. It was cool, I had this long conversation with a couple of Tibetan kids, children of the owners of the restaurant. The older [...]
A Day Out
I spent the morning writing, and once again Sala, the woman who comes to clean every once in a while, interrupted my reverie in Neil’s past. So I wrote a little more, and decided to have a day out of the house. I’m still working on how to start showing one major element of the [...]
I love the way Adam puts a perspective on things…
Like this link on his site:
Senile eunuch-by-choice bothered by media portrayal of sex, contraception and homosexuality.
Actually, his link is different, I used his text to link to his page. It’s a lovely point he makes.
He also turned us on to another mad quiz:
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Not much to report…
…except that I’ve surpassed 123,400 words. If this were a romance novel it’d eb long enough to publish. But I have higher standards, like rounding out the plot, for example.
Anyway, I think I’m either 2/5 or 3/5 finished. I just needed some time away from the PC to figure out how to fit two [...]
No Monkeys, But I Saw A Goatherd…
…and a flock of goats, too. Is flock the right word? I don’t know. It was quite the sight, actually… old fellow crouched on the top of a gorge, tying on his turban and calling out every once in a while to the goats so they wouldn’t run off too far.
I was also paying [...]
Still quite worth it…
… but I wish they hadn’t run off…
I was looking for an earring for my buddy Seong Hwan when I heard a couple of girls talking Korean in the shop I was in. They were trying to get the shop owner to tell them about pricing for shawls, related to percentge of wool, silk, and [...]
Recently Published Stories
- "The Bodhisattvas." Published in Subterranean Magazine guest edited by Jonathan Strahan, Spring 2010.
- "Sarging Rasmussen: A Report By Organic" in SHINE Anthology, edited by Jetse de Vries, Spring 2010. Read an excerpt online here!
- "Alone With Gandhari." -- Clarkesworld #42, March 2010. Podcast by Clarkesworld (read by Kate Baker), March 1st, 2010.
- "보살들." ("The Bodhisattvas", Korean translation by Kim Chang-gyu.) In 백만 광년의 고독 (One Million Light-Years of Solitude) SOAO Workshop anthology from Omelas, December 2009. (See Forthcoming Publications, below, for English-language original.)
- "Of Melei, of Ulthar." Clarkesworld, October 2009.
- "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues" -- podcast at Starship Sofa, read by JJ Campanella (25 March 2009). Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- "Tian Ju Zhiao (The Teaching of the Lord of Heaven)." (Poem.) Diet Soap #3 -- Sabotage. (1 March 2009). Buy an electronic or print edition here or get a FREE PDF -- see here.
- "Cai and Her Ten Thousand Husbands." 
Apex Magazine (3 Feb. 2009). Now available in Descended From Darkness: Apex Magazine Vol. 1 edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth.
- "Like, Stabbed by a Love Triangle, Dude," "The Xanax King and his Wife's Painted Hoo-Has," and "Homeless Bob and Lester the Black Guy" (creative nonfiction) and "Groan" (a poem) -- Outlanders zine published by Scott Burgeson.
- "The Country of the Young." Interzone 219 (Dec. 2008). Fictionwise eMagazine edition available here.
- "Dhuluma No More," read by David Munger. Podcast by Starship Sofa. (5 November 2008.)
- "Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang," available in the annual Canadian SF anthology Tesseracts Twelve, edited by Claude Lalumière.
- "Dhuluma No More." Asimov's SF October/November 2008. (Fictionwise eMagazine edition of the magazine available here.)
- "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues." Asimov's SF, July 2008. (Fictionwise eMagazine edition available here.)- "Pahwakhe" -- Fantasy magazine, 21 January 2008. Or listen to the Podcastle Podcast here (from 2 May 2008)!
- "The Egan Thief" -- Flurb #4, Fall/Winter 2007.
- "Junk" -- Nature, Vol 448: 2 August, 2007. (PDF also available.)Recent Articles
- "Parasites in the Human Ecosystem." Cahoots, Summer 2009.- "SF in South Korea Today." The Shine Anthology weblog, 9 April 2009.
- "Men, Women, and Internet Trolls" -- the Winter '08 installment of my column "XY" for Cahoots Magazine, 15 Dec. 2008.
- "How Candle Girl and V Took on 2MB." Clarkesworld, October 2008.
- XY column installment: Why Are Women More Religious? at Cahoots Magazine. (Fall 2008)- "Fending Off Discontentment." The Korea Herald, 25 September 2008.
- "Another Undiscovered Country: An Analysis of the Effects of Culture on the Reception and Adoption of the Science Fiction Genre in South Korea Through The Examination of 21st Century Korean SF Cinema." (Alt. link for those without Hangeul on their PCs.) Presented at the 4th International Congress of Korean Studies.
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- "Planet Crazy" in Cahoots Magazine, Spring 2008.Grab Some Music
Korean indie rock with lost saxophone in tow:
- Product by Dabang Band (2004)
- Pig Over Seoul by Dabang Band (2002)Live acoustic/electronic ambient chillout:
- Live 1998 by ApocryphaCrusty, weird modern classical student compositions: - an assortment of compositions I wrote as an undergrad from 1995-1996.
If you're one of those people who is into owning the physical CD, Dabang Band's 2nd album, Product:
... is still available via YesAsia. I won't see a
centwon either way, but it's a pretty nice, ahem, product.-
If Only I Were Part Robot... - August 27, 2010
I'd have time to post constantly. But since I'm not: Here's some vintage Korean SF action... [...]-
What The Zen Cowboy Said - August 27, 2010
Caveat: I know zilch about horses. But I think this says something worth saying, just the same. [...]-
Recommended Books on Korea - August 26, 2010
So, I was recently asked for a list of my top ten books about Korean history/politics, for someone [...]-
"Hakwon Teachers" - August 26, 2010
In a recent post, I made a disparaging comment about being talked to like some hakwon teacher: And [...]TwoThree Annoying Things - August 26, 2010
The two girls who politely excused their way to the head of the line at the taxi stand tonight [...]
