Lee Myung Bak and Corruption

With all of the allegations of corruption that have been brought up against him, I’m amazed that the right-wing Presidential candidate Lee Myung Bak is actually still pulling 50% in the polls. I’m wondering whether the new-ish evidence I’m told has surfaced of his implication in the BBK price-manipulation fraud will be the needle in [...]

No Maps

It must be weird to be asked to talk to someone with a camera long enough to have an hour and a half of footage. I’m watching the William Gibson documentary No Maps For These Territories, and I’m struck by the difficulty of this kind of “performance.” No doubt it is a performance: sitting around [...]

Bye, Wonjjang

Two posts just got eaten. How come it only happens when I blog using Internet Exploiter?
Anyway, I got Wonjjang out the door today. Poor fella has been waiting to be sent out into the cold, cruel world for a while now. That brings my current total number of stories out to market up to six. [...]

“Wonjjang,” “Dhuluma,” “McWar,” and “The Broken Path”

Well, here’s my done/to-do list in terms of creative writing:
Done:

checked the feedback from Lime on “Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyonyang”: some good feedback, plus some basic disagreement on politics. From a Korean point-of-view, this story seems to have a very right-wing bent, though to me, it’s not so much aligned with either “right” [...]

Interview on English in Korea

I was recently interviewed by a student magazine on campus for an upcoming feature on English education in Korea. The interview is unapologetically opinionated, though some of my facts might be a little off — it was a kind of hurried thing, conducted by email. In any case, it ranges from the challenges faced by [...]

Dhuluma No More, My Brother, and the Rains Will Come Again

Whew! I don’t know if the title is working, but it’s the one I’ve settled upon. That’s the new name of a story a lot of my crit group may remember as “Ogallala,” the rewrite of which I mentioned here.
T’was a hell of a  struggle to get from the 2,500 words there to the 5,500 [...]

Pedal Up

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 1975.
Damn!

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