Ugh. This is why I will never, ever buy another Garfield product as long as I live. I always wondered how this crappy comic survived so long. Now I know: it’s because it’s crap. From somewhere on CrazyKimchi’s page…
Month: February 2005
The Best Grub
This week, for the Friday5, Pogo asks: 5 outstanding places to eat – where & why? Well, now, this is slightly different from the last food-based F5 question, in that it asks where are the five best places to eat, period. I’m going to limit the answer to places I have eaten in the last year, and which are within normal travel distance for me in a given week… These days, I have to say my favorite place to eat out is a little speciality place near Jeonbuk University. Often I meet Lime at the front gate of the University, …
Whoops, I did it again…
For those who are following it for whatever reason they may be interested in doing so, I’ve posted again, in Korean, over at Let’s Learn Korean. This time I wrote about my struggle to find a comic book I could actually read in Korean, and how I finally succeeded in finding one called “순정 만화”. From what I can tell, the title is a pun on two possible meanings: “Simple comic book” and “boy-meets-girl comic book”. Lime actually recommended it to me, though in online form; I stumbled upon the hard copy version, much to my delight. It’s the first …
Films I’ve Seen of Late
Writing a novel is the kind of work one can do for a few hours at a time, and then one needs a break. For me, it’s a kind of process of letting my own ideas percolate, and they often do that best when I am occupied doing something else. Also, while I’ve been writing this, I’ve had an incredibly hard time getting into reading fiction. Nonfiction has been easy, but I crave storylines and yet fiction simply hasn’t drawn me in. Even the wonderfully funny and tragic novel The Comedians by Graham Greene hasn’t succeeded in drawing me in. …
Seolnal Resolutions
When 2005 began, I didn’t make any resolutions for the year. To be honest, I was simply too ill and too busy to get on it. The holiday season is just so loaded with things I need to do, that I simply never got around to it. Well, since today is the Lunar New Year, and a day when almost everyone I know is busy, I had the day to myself. I decided I would do up a list of resolutions for the Lunar New Year and see how far I get with them. I don’t tend to make resolutions …