You may need to change the encoding of this page on your computer to view this post properly (under the menu you can find an encoding option). Western European works well. * Je n’ai pas ?rit en fran?is depuis six mois… donc c’est ben difficile. Mon amie Astrid a m’envoyait un courriel, et c’etait ben joyeux ?lire. Le fran?is… je l’ai perdu presque de to?! Quand je veux parler en fran?is, des mots cor?ns volents de la bouche. C’est ben ?range… ouay. En Tha?and, j’ai vu des francophones en parlent du bon h?el, et puis j’ai fait un effort ?parler …

Okay, I’ve been busy with music, personal stuff, and so on. I’ve also been busy at another website where I post. I’m not posting any more today, but if you wanna see what I’ve been thinking about in a more academic vein, my friend Marvin and I are having a discussion over at our New Sophists’ Almanac page. Currently up for discussion are Postmodernism and what’s wrong with it (and Postsolipsism, which is apparently our own homegrown solution to whatever it is that’s wrong with or incomplete about postmodernism); Therapy and Therapy-Culture; the evolutionary psychology viewpoint on Click! and Ick! …

… for an amazing blog. Except of course I cannot say anything about it because, well, it’s a great idea. Hell, maybe could even get some advertising and make some money? It’d be a multi-author thing and I think it might be a damn cool site either way. Better even than Jack and my idea of an Onion-like website called University of Rejection. That came about when we were all Teacher’s Assistants (read: part-time profs) and someone’s undegrad student wrote the following sentence: I just got my Letter, from the University, of Rejection. This was a French student, I believe, …

I think it’s called an ondol, but I could be spelling that wrong (I always seem to hear a vowel wrong these days). It’s a system of heating a room from below, and it uses hot water to do so. There’s usually one under the floor of apartments, and when you sleep on the floor on a yo (a floor-pad) like I do, the warmth radiates up out of the floor and permeates everything… the room, your body. My back feels so good the morning after I sleep on the warm floor, even when it’s on the lowest heat possible. …