It’s time for Post #700
Oh yes, my friends. I’ve reached post number seven-hundred, and I could write about so many things. I could write about my new superpowers. I could write about thw two Korean movies I’ve seen in the last week. (Or is it three?) I could write about the inflatable stick-plastic ball in my flat that is [...]
Jongno
Another Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries piece…
This one I found rather moving: Jongno. This, I have a feeling, I actually get.
And yeah, for lack of an appropriate category, this is gonna go under “lit” in my archives.
Korean Blog Buffet
Budaechigae has been kind enough to post a nice collation of recent posts by bloggers in English in Korea. I’m not in the list, but I won’t whine.
Much.
Weird Spooky Art
And some more disturbing art by Margot Quan Knight. Brrr. This is weeeeeird stuff.
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries…
Once more. Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRESENTS. I found Metablast interesting. Lots more I wanna see but you know, I can’t sit through more than one in a day.
I disagree with chunks of this woman’s politics, but her art is still fascinating, and I’d love to have a beer with her sometime.
Empty Bottle Man
I’ve peered over there a few times before, and been impressed, but been to lazy to blog this site before. But today, when I had a look, I was pleasantly surprised. Someone else who feels how I do about people here,
to be honest, the vast majority of waeguk-in (foreigners) I meet in Korea are damaged, [...]
Kassandra and Walking in the Rain
Today I got a comment from a blogger who wanted me to link to her site. I was surprised, for when I loaded up her main page, it felt like recognition… that banner, man? I remember when my banners used to look like that too. But no, that’s not it. It’s that feeling of recognition [...]
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Recently Published Stories
- "The Country of the Young." Interzone 219 (Dec. 2008).
- "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
- "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 cent either way, but it's a pretty nice, ahem, product.
