• Archive for August, 2008

    The Beach

    by  • August 27, 2008 • PERSONAL • 4 Comments

    No, not the film with Dicaprio. I went to the beach a week ago with this couple I hang out with, Gwen and Mike. Good times. You might remember my mentioning a sunburn? That’s how I got it. (And I was under the beach umbrella almost the whole time! (Except when shooting these photos!)...

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    Bwi~! and Buyeo Wives, &c.

    by  • August 26, 2008 • KOREA, WRITING • 10 Comments

    That’s a word I think I made up myself, in Korean. At least, I’ve never heard anyone else say it, though Lime told me it sounds like the mopey protestation of a five-year-old. 븨~! This word is occasioned because my Sado Seja story did not make it into the Datlow/Mamatas anthology Haunted Legends. I’m...

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    Bye, Yves

    by  • August 26, 2008 • PERSONAL • 2 Comments

    I don’t know my realtives on the French-Canadian side of my family too well, but I know that it’s been a hard few years. The uncle who used to chase us around the house hollering mock-threateningly (with a huge smile on his face) that he was the Cookie Monster and he was going to...

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    Great Neal Stephenson Talk

    by  • August 25, 2008 • KOREA, PERSONAL • 0 Comments

    I’m a few months late, but here’s a great Neal Stephenson talk that addresses the whole SF/genre/what-is-SF dichotomy/argument/blabber in a rather interesting way: let’s talk about the people who consume SF, versus the people who consume “everything else” — which he jokingly calls “the Mundanes.” It takes a while for the video to load,...

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    Links Updated

    by  • August 25, 2008 • PERSONAL • 4 Comments

    As a break from thinking about the film Yesterday, I threw in a plugin to help me manage the link order in my blogroll. I deleted a couple of links I no longer visit — some just because, some because the things I’ve seen at the far side of the link has infuriated me...

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