Well, I promised an update when I finally managed to make an online grocery order all on my own, and today, that was my biggest achievement. The lucky site was…. Emart. As I related a while back (first here, then here), Homeplus rapidly fixed one text field on its website when Lime ranted about...
Read more →Okay, turning on the Lifestream updates thing on my blog was a mistake. I can’t delete the one that was posted — even after turning the plugin off, it seems locked somewhere I cannot edit — but anyway, that won’t be happening again. Yuck!
Read more →Catch up with my various feeds, if you’re not following them already. (I won’t do this regularly, but it seems I can’t delete this now!)
Read more →Last night at the launch of the Seoul Science Fiction & Fantasy Library — an amazing project I’ll post about soon — the writer/translator Jeong So-Yeon reminded me that I hadn’t yet posted about our experience at SOAO Workshop up on Sobaeksan, which has prompted me to write this post of things I need...
Read more →Hey, you, foreign teacher living in Seoul/Incheon/Gyeonggi-do! Go help a scholar find out more about the expat experience in Korea by filling out this survey. I found most of the questions on this survey interesting, though a few (such as assumptions of what “nationality” means among expatriates) were a bit oddball to me. (Via...
Read more →Diet Soap #3 is finally out! It includes my poem “Tian Ju Zhao,” which is the first poem ‘ve published in ages. (Though a couple more will be showing up in a future issue of Diet Soap.) There’s a heck of a lineup too, including none other than Howard Waldrop! You can pay to...
Read more →A few things I got a kick out of in the last few days: Seeing a drunken old man jogging in place on the express commuter train out of Seoul. He jogged for ten or fifteen minutes, stopped, rolled his head around for a while, then jogged some more. I seemed to be the...
Read more →I’m looking for a Mandarin word I could use as a translation of “devour.” It ought to have a visceral feeling, though it’s a word used by a Chinese ghost hunting the Japanese bioweapon experimenter who killed him with bubonic plague (or some similar horrific illness) in Manchuria back during the war. It’s the...
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