I think this whole “metrosexual” thing happened after I left North America; I spent my last few years there cloistered deep in academia, but it was literary academia and I’m sure someone would have mentioned this at the first available namedrop of Eve Kosofsky Sedwick. But I can’t recall hearing the term till after...
Read more →Well, having arrived back in Korea a week ago, having noted the slight growth of my gut, having that weird uneasy feeling of laziness begin to creep into the whole of my body, I have been making an effort to get back into some kind of better shape than I am… Why I have...
Read more →In my opinion, this is far from enough. create your own visited country map or write about it on the open travel guide I’m only counting places I remember. Having been born in Malawi, or been carried through Europe as an infant, doesn’t count, to my mind.
Read more →A very biting sestina: John Ashcroft and Tom Delay Pretty Much Suck Ass via Blog of a Bookslut.
Read more →Well, finally, I’ve got all the pics from my last two big trips up. Everything I’m planning to post from both my trip to India last winter, and my trip to North America this summer, is up for your browsing pleasure. The only things I might add are a couple of animated gifs of...
Read more →This is all Charlie’s fault. Just… just go look.
Read more →It seems to be weird movie week here at eclexys. In a fit of curiosity, I watched al three Harry Potter movies, which I guess aren’t exactly weird but it’s weird that I, who had no interest in them before, watched them all in such quick succession. I found them alright, but I am...
Read more →The Korea Herald claims that the advent of a new genre of fusion opera is upon us. Huh? How is having the recitatives translated into Korean the creation of a new genre? It’s even less creative than I imagined. Now, a full-stage new (classical) music opera, with digital effects onstage, and cool stuff like...
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