Today, fully two days after the Nork Nuke test, I finally had someone come up to me and bring the subject up. I actually managed to teach a full two-hour class [edit: I should clarify, this was on Monday afternoon] without anyone mentioning it (though the mood in the room wasn’t good and I wondered why), the day of the test [edit: and only found out about it after the class, because a friend had emailed me about it] . What can I say, I was coccooned in my creative writing for most of the day. But consistently, most of …
Month: October 2006
More Writing Stuff
Oddly enough — or perhaps not surprisingly at all — the current political situation over here got me thinking about what exactly I was trying to say in my Northeast-Asian Superheroes story. While a lot of the plot-elements are actually remaining, there’s a slight bit of shuffling in terms of who occupies which place in relationship to the main character, a beleaguered private-sector-employed South Korean superhero. The resolution, which was eluding me for the longest time — since my return from Seattle to Korea roughly eight weeks ago — has finally, sort-of, fallen into place. I wish it were under …
Realer ReDraft Underway
I finally got back to some writing, and let me tell you, it feels good. Today, I just hit roughly 5200 words on a total reworking of a very old, and many-times-reworked “trunk story” called “Realer”. (Seriously, very many times reworked. The current draft is the tenth, and I think, aside from minor tweaking, the last; if I don’t get it basically right this time, it’s going into the “abandoned” file on my hard drive.) The story was originally about 7500 words and I’m guessing the redraft will be about 6500 or 7000, but it’s in every sense possible a …
What Would Malcolm X Say If He Were Alive Now?
That thought skittered through my head as I thought of how much change has come in the way people in the West see Islam today. I went and queried Google, and what was spat out of the darkness of the Net was this recent interview with Malcolm X’s daughter. It’s pretty short, and nothing surprised me, but interesting just the same. She’s got a website, and a book out, too.
Dear Kim Jong Il
Dear Kim Jong Il, I got the news late in the day, because I was actually doing something constructive with my time. Unlike you. If there is a hell, you’re gonna drink the diarrhea of millions there, you little twerpy sister-fucker. I estimate that you have a couple of more years of life ahead of you, maximum. Enjoy the collapse of your pathetic pseudo-dynasty, you ugly little shit. That is all.