Hey, Metropolis magazine is holding a big design contest with a big big prize. Worth a shot, maybe? You tell me, all you would be designer-entrepreneurs out there…
Month: November 2003
Cell Phones, Disconnection, and Connection
Does this kind of idea run through your mind when you think of cell phones? I don’t know which is worse–the loss of the sense that walking along a great urban street is a glorious shared experience or the blurring of distinctions between different kinds of places. But these cultural losses are related, and the cell phone has played a major role in both. It sure doesn’t run through mine. But apparently Paul Goldberger thinks of it, and is concerned that we should too. He’s so concerned he wrote an article about these “cultural losses”, titled “Disconnected Urbanism”, for the …
Where Is True Love?
That’s the question I asked an ajuma (a soccer mom) with a baby on her back, in the parking lot of HanShinKoa Apartments a few weeks ago. I’m writing it in English characters because Hangeul will look crazy on most peoples’ computers. But I want to post this story to my Korean blog soon. Gord: “Cham Sarang, eodisaeyo?” Ajuma: ??? (confused look, tinge of “is this idiot dangerous?”) Gord: ??? (reciprocally confused look, tinge of “dammit I need to start studying Korean again!”) Ajuma: “Moragoyo?” Gord: “Cham Sarang-i, eodisaeyo?” Ajuma: “Eongh?” Gord: (dawn of realization): “Cham Sarang Mateu-ga, eodisaeyo?” Ajuma: …
Gorgeous Chicken and Coconut Milk Curry. Thai Style.
Not this Thai… he’s my band’s drummer, not our cook. I’ve seen him roll cigarettes, but I’ve never seen him make a curry soup. I mean the other Thai, as in Thailand’s gorgeous cuisine. Mmmm. Having gone to E-Mart today, having read a couple of comments from a Thai reader (welcome to the eclexys readership, Lynn), and having recently written about wonderful foods I miss, I decided to have some Thai curry soup tonight. Now, it may not be authentic. I don’t know Thai food that well. I thought I knew Korean food but I’ve been told I don’t know …
And one more Quiz: This Time, Classic Novels
In my not so humble opinion, you, of course, belongin the Picture of Dorian Gray, and do not tryto deny it. You belong in the fashionablecircles of Victorian London where exotictastes, a double life, decadence, wit and ahypocritical belief in moral betterment makeyou a home. You belong where the wittyapothegms of Lords, the silly moralities ofmatrons, the blinding high of opium, and thebeauty of visual arts mingle to form oneconvoluted world. Which Classic Novel do You Belong In? brought to you by Quizilla Okay, no more quizzes for today. Thanks for the link to this one, Melissa.