Do We Have What It Takes? F5
From the daring mind of Mojave66:
What are the five things you think that humanity needs in order to survive and evolve into a peaceful civilization? “Things” could mean a philosophy, a technology, a spiritual perspective, a type of government… anything.
This is not such a hard question. I think humanity needs very little to survive and [...]
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Vampires, Ogres… and Spring
Today Lime and I returned from our trip and watched Shrek I (again, for me, in the hopes that we could watch Shrek II, though we found it had finished playing in Jeonju). Then we watched Van Helsing, becaused it was the most convenient movie for both of us (and she let me pick).
Shrek: [...]
On Censorship the Civil Society letter: PUBLISHED!
For those who don’t reread old posts, you’ll miss a big update here, so I’m re-posting the info here… my letter to the Korea Times was published, at least on their website, under the Thoughts of the Times column, and you can view it here.
Ooops, except I guess they found a title a little [...]
On the eve of 1000
That’s right, this is post #1000 here at eclexys. I’m just posting a little link because I really must get to bed soon. I spent all evening editing the letter to the editor which you can see in the previous post, and tomorrow morning Lime and I leave for our (short) trip to SongGwangSa, a [...]
Letter To The Editor
*UPDATE*: This letter is on the Korea Times’ website! It might even be in the newspaper today, though I won’t get a chance to check until tomorrow…
Here’s the published letter, which is under Thoughts of the Times.
From the BigHominid’s Hairy Chasms a nasty stench was emitted, which was regarding this opinion piece in the Korea [...]
No Korean Name But In Japanese I Am…
I know I’m in Korea, not Japan, but I haven’t seen a Korean Name Generator online, so I’m, well, settling for a Japanese name. Given that there are kanji characters (”hanja” in Korean, meaning Chinese characters), I suppose some Korean could render this for me, if they were so inclined…
My japanese name is 吉国 Yoshikuni [...]
Wicked Witches of the Old World and Their Nasty Goods For Sale
Again, over at Arts & Letters Daily, I found an interesting article about the women who founded those repugnant corporate marketeers of dissatisfaction, needless worry, and shame: The Czarinas of Beauty, an article by Stefan Kanfer about the founders of three of the world’s biggest cosmetics companies.
Even in this time of Botox and collagen, implants [...]
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 [...]
