This one’s for you, Adam Lipscomb. What do you give the man who’s got everything? The answer’s really simple, I think, because, frankly, such a man probably doesn’t exist. For example, I don’t know anyone who knows how to build a guillotine. Though I can think of a few friends who would put one to extremely good use, given half a chance.
Month: March 2005
Spiked Mountain
Over at Korean Media Watch there’s a post from a while back, that I’ve run across again since I’m adapting my bookmarks to the del.icio.us format. It’s an interesting debunking of the allegation that a photo proves the story that the Japanese colonials spiked the mountains of Korea in an attempt to geomantically ruin the Korean spirit. Actually, if you ask me, it doesn’t sound so far-fetched, whether or not it happened—Japan’s geomantic superstitions were certainly still extant at the time! I have no compunction using this legendary project (true or not) in a short fiction story I’m now working …
Ko Un
A while back, AsianWeek.com had a piece up about the Korean poet Ko Un. He’s been translated, and I do want to check him out, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. Soon, hopefully. Hey, here are some poems of his, translated by… yep, that Brother Anthony guy. I don’t know how good he is, but he’s sure prolific in his translations!
Hilarious
From Burningbird, a discussion about the new, controversial (?), proposed Google Autolink toolbar feature turns into a hilarious revelation of
Those Abusive Vegetarians, Whoops, I Only Mean That About The Vegans
Ozzie Yobbo provides a link to a really sleazy bit of Australian journalism that claims that vegetarian diets are child abuse… oh, wait, no, only Vegan diets are likely to be bad for kids, ah well, too late to change that title. And too late for you to get your money back for the newspaper, too. Of course, anything who knows anything about humans in any culture besides their own would note that, oh, wait, Indian diets often don’t have a lot of meat in them (as one of the commenters at Yobbo’s page points out). So the way Indians …