Not Quite Foucault, But…

I’m grading final exams from my Media English course — where, unlike what the title might suggest, we didn’t just use media to boost English. Instead, we looked at issues ranging from copyright, User Created Content (or User Generated Content) online, censorship in media, the power of one medium to supplant another, the politics of [...]

Party Last Night

I am not going to talk about the party I was at last night, except that it was nice to see Sanghoon and Rira again, and good to meet several new people including Dr. Kim Kyu-hyun, and a few others. I wish I’d known they were likely to leave early-ish, so I could have talked [...]

Define “Big,” and Define “Butts” (Plus a Barrage of Amusing Youtube Videos)

The other day, while I was searching for the video “Soju Mama” in a recent post, I ran across this commercial:


The fact they used this song, and this celebrity, in this commerical, suggests one of these two possibilities:

They figured most people don’t know what “I like big butts” means. [...]

Swiss Cheese News and the Un-Mediagenic Reportage Barrier

Boing Boing has updated — with very little new information — about the case of Dymond Milburn in Galveston, Texas.
“Hey, look, a little black girl in her yard! She must be one of those hookers we’re looking for!”
“But the hookers we’re looking for are white. And she’s in her yard, with her doggie, fiddling with [...]

OVER~~!

I find myself wondering why overacting — vast, wailing reactions of protestation, incredibly fake outrage, and the like — is the norm in comedic “acting” in Korea.
(EDIT: Actually, it also seems the norm in movies, but in a different way: long brooding shots, action scenes five minutes too long, and hyperemotional crying is something we [...]

Stuff Going On

Well, lots of things going on… in a personal sense, too, though I’m not ready to blog my recent news.
Instead:

There’s some great fiction online that I need to link to. For now, just one story: the wonderfully nastyglee party that is Tina Connolly’s “A Day Out, with Stereoscopes” is up at Birkensnake. I’ve a copy [...]

Madness at the Ministry of Bukkake: A Proposal for a New Mockery-Based Dokdo Strategy

For those of you not in Korea, you’ve probably never heard of Dokdo. Wikipedia has the scoop for you, and it’s pretty well balanced, but the bottom line is, Dokdo is a pair of rocks in the middle of the body of water that separates Korea from Japan. Dokdo is the subject of an ongoing [...]

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