• Archive for August, 2011

    블라인드 Blind, Part 1: A Review

    by  • August 15, 2011 • FILMS&TV, KOREA • 4 Comments

    Miss Jiwaku and I saw the new Korean film Blind tonight (the title is the same in Korean: 블라인드), and I have to say, as long as you don’t know anything about blind people, it’s a pretty good film — a tightly plotted thriller with a shadowy bad guy and a surprisingly sympathetic pair...

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    The Big Time by Fritz Leiber

    by  • August 1, 2011 • BOOKS & AUTHORS • 6 Comments

    I’ve read things by Fritz Leiber that I adore — both Conjure Wife and, more vehemently for me, Our Lady of Darkness are important ones — but The Big Time simply did not work for me. I like the idea of the Change War — familiar though it is —  and the notion of cutting...

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