Yeah, it’s a spoonerism. I’m about to leave to have a little run-through with the Dabang Band. They’re having a farewell show at the local foreigner bar and Thai, who I hung out with last night, asked me to sit in on a few of the old tunes. Though I haven’t played with them, or even at all, since last November, I think it’ll be fun, and I’m happy about it. What I’m not happy about is playing on a new reed… but all the old ones have been sitting for something like nine months. If a baby can gestate …
Month: August 2005
The Disgusting Girl Blog
This blog is hilarious. I’m inspired, really. In a sick, awful kind of way. The disgusting girl I work with and her new girl friend both wore tube tops for casual Friday. Their navels remind me of ebony and ivory subway tunnels. I wish I could turn back time to the 1950’s when all women were forced to dress like school teachers. Only super models and teenagers should be allowed to expose their bare bellies in the light of day. If you want to feel slightly sick, but laugh your ass off too, follow the link above. And just read …
More Philosopherizaicalization
Over at New Sophist’s Almanac, the philosophy tandem blog I run with my friend Marvin, activity has begun again after some quiet summer time. Marvin posted reflections about his experiences with karate, reflections fueled in part by reading Edward Said’s Orientalism. I responded to his wonderful post with some of my own thoughts as a kind of Orientalist-by-necessity that I find myself being in my life as a foreigner in Korea. And now, the hardcore stuff: our spelunking of the Alpha Theory has begun again, with the aid of one Bourbaki, who is answering questions on this theory which purports …
Grab Bag
Okay, well, straight from the title of this post: Good News: I have started a new novel, and it’s not my SF-jail novel (which I think I’ll work on, off-and-on, for a while, but which isn’t my main focus now): it’s a kind of a futuristic espionage thing, but with several interesting (I think) twists. So far I’ve mapped out some of the background, and I have a pretty good handle on at least two of the main characters. One of the main struggles for me will be to maintain neutrality when faced with the two vying organizations envisioned in …
Survival Quiz
I didn’t do so well on this quiz, but then I take it that it’s more of an educational thing than a real “test your knowledge” quiz. Pretty cool, though, and now I know a lot more about survival in the bush than I used to.