Oh, Lime would have loved to have gone to this. Too bad Texas is too far away, even for November.
Month: September 2005
Hardass Code Monster
Okay, not really, but I did muck around with php files for the first time today. I worked for ten hours on a friend’s website. It’s going to be located at www.cahootsmagazine.com but it’s not up yet… the holding page, designed by the layout designer because I took to long to get the WordPress installation going, is what you see there now. (My page should be up by the end of the week, though, so if you dally, you may not see the holding page it replaces.) The magazine, by the way, is being launched by some old friends of …
Friggin’ Cool
Well, Lime and I had a couple of days in the country, which were really nice except for the bathroom. The number of times I say that in Korea makes me a little bit sad. If only people conceived of bathrooms as rooms that people actually use, that people should be able to stretch, move, relax, and actually clean themselves effectively in, life would be a lot more comfortable and sweet here. But anyway, we went for a couple of walks, saw some movies—the little cottage we stayed in had a TV with a cable setup—and had some good food. …
It’s Chuseok,And You Know What That Means
It means tons of hours-long traffic jams—even on the nation’s highways— grocery stores basically full of people, bank ATMs running out of money, and general craziness till sometime next Tuesday. For me, Chuseok isn’t such a special time. I mean, I can grasp how it means a lot to people here; though it’s more like Thanksgiving in North American culture in terms of the content and practices of the holiday, it’s an event that matches Christmas on the Western scale… the biggest holiday of the year. I understand that. I just don’t really feel it. For me, it’s more like, …
‘nother good link
I need to add BOOKFORUM to my list of links worth checking out even though they don’t have an RSS feed.
The Day-Numbers Game
It’s funny how some people find more to complain about with regard to Koreans behaviour around foreigners, and other people find more to complain about with regards to foreigners in general. I was on the phone tonight with an old friend of mine who has just moved to Korea, and he said that after a few weekends in foreigner bars, in different cities no less, he found that it was all the same people. Literally, he said, Same people, different face, but the same damn people just the same. How true, in my experience, which is why it seems to …
Foreign Fiction About Korea
I don’t often get a chance to stick something in the two categories Korea and Lit, so I’m excited. Here’s a list of short fiction about Korea in English. It’s mainly by non-Koreans… and the list also includes a link to a similar page for novels in English about the Korean War. That’d make an interesting area for some Korean lit major in which to draft a doctoral thesis, I bet: foreign depictions of Korea through the lens of war.
That Ugly Beast
I found this wonderful quote: Simia quam similis, turpissima bestia, nobis! How like us is that very ugly beast the monkey! -Cicero … on this page of Latin quotes (with translations). And that quote’s over 2000 years old! How very tragically little things change.
Vagrantly
Vagrantly is a photoblog that is—or at least at one point was—banned in Iran, but most of my readers can enjoy it. And will.
Cosmetics from executed Chinese, paper says – Yahoo! News
Heh, does your lip liner have collagen in it? What about your wrinkle treatment? Was it made in China? Because, heh, this article over on Yahoo! (also courtesy of my co-worker Leon) may interest you: Cosmetics from executed Chinese, paper says. Not to be too gross, but, uh, here’s a taste: The [Chinese cosmetics company’s] agents say some of the company’s products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is ‘traditional’ and nothing to ‘make such a big fuss about’… One more point against makeup. But why is it that this makes …