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The Pursuit of Happiness

Marvin recently linked to this beautiful essay by John Perry Barlow on The Pursuit of ~~Happiness~~ Emptiness. It’s very much worth a read.

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Recent Music-Making

Gord Sellar · String Quartet (In Progress)

Creative Projects Tracker

At the Mountains of Baekdu—revision 75%

A**hole Island—Final Edit/Rewrite 100%

Zymurgic, Book 1—revision stage 3 1%

String Quartet #1 100%

A New Tune a Week (50 Tunes) 14%

Sounds from the Isle of Joy (album) 100%

RECENT/UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.

EU Webstore | US Webstore US Webstore | PDF at DTRPG

My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available for €4.25, over at the publisher's website.

My short story "Sojourn" appeared in A City of Han.

Available on Amazon.com, or, in Seoul, from the Fiction Writers in Seoul website.

See a complete list of my publications and forthcoming work.

Stuff to Read

An annex of free stuff to read: stories, poems, and nonfiction.

SERIES & STANDOUT POSTS

ON WRITING & READING

For Writers. A collection of exercises & Intuition Pumps

My ongoing series Blogging Ezra Pound's The Cantos.

My ongoing (but only occasionally updated) series on SF in South Korea.

ON MUSIC

What We Talk About When We Talk About Music. A lengthy discussion of music and the arts, and what we've let corporations do to our culture:

ON KOREA & LIVING THERE

Five Expat Social Fallacies, a riff on the famous geek social fallacies.

On Teaching Writing in a Korean University

ON RPGS & GAMES

With a Side of Kimchi: My First Brush with Fiasco, an actual play report on my first game of Fiasco.

Talent Night: a prep/actual play report on my first RPG game in a decade and a half, back in 2013, played with Dread, including a free copy of the scenario.

ON OTHER SUBJECTS

How to Kill Your Successful Business in Five Easy Steps, a series on really bad business practices I've seen in action.

MUSIC

Dabang Band/다방밴드

Check out the Dabang Band website:

You can also check out a lot of my own music over on Soundcloud.

CONSUMPTIVE

What I'm reading now.
What I've read this year.

TV/movies I've watched this year.
Older watchlists on my IMDB account.

TUMBL’D LATELY (MUSIC STUFF)

Untitled March 5, 2024
Allison Au back in 2019, at the Junofest Jazz Showcase with Robi Botos, Mike Downes and Larnell… March 3, 2024
Kenny Garrett playing a song I never expected to hear him play. (Heard about this on the Keep Taking… March 3, 2024

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