Kang Tae Hwan, on bugsmusic. Not easy listening, in any sense of the word, but pretty fascinating that a band like this exists at all in Korea. It’s right up there with the German freejazz guys who used to pass through my hometown during Festival time. Where and when can I see these guys...
Read more →This week Laura asks the Friday Fivers: Sharing an office with one or more people can be a bit of a strain sometimes. Humour me, name five annoying habits of co-workers you’ve had to put up with. Or are YOU the one who chews with his mouth open or types aloud? No fair, Laura....
Read more →I thought I’d get a chance to finish reading these stories sent to me by a fine SF writer who, because she’s Korean American, I thought might be of interest over here and decided to interview. But two things had to get done first: one, I had to respond to Marvin’s thoughts over at...
Read more →Okay, finally, a change of heart. Now I know I definitely need to live in Seoul someday. And to bring my saxophones. And to practice occasionally in the meantime. Why? Bulgasari.
Read more →According to the Dead Celebrity Soulmate Search, I’d go well with Mata Hari. I have no idea what that says about me. via Tedious and Brief?
Read more →Your Inner European is French! Smart and sophisticated. You have the best of everything – at least, *you* think so. Who’s Your Inner European? Via Ritu, whose Inner European is Italian.
Read more →Um, something seems to be up with the F5 Questionlog, since this week it put out another question by me: I was rereading a short story by Orson Scott Card, called “Angles” (in the Silverberg/Haber Best of SF 2002 collection), when I ran into a machine that’s familiar to all of us, I’m sure....
Read more →I finished this text a week ago, but I’ve been too busy and also too stunned by it to find anything to say about it until today. Here it is… book #11 of my Lunar New Year readings: Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next 50 Years by Bruce Sterling. This is a work of futurism....
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