One thing that fascinates me is how changing perspective changes a story completely. I was on the subway Friday night, to go meet Charles to go to a microbrew buffet in Kangnam — where a good time was had, by the way! — when I realized what I’d been doing wrong in “Dhuluma No More, […]
With all of the allegations of corruption that have been brought up against him, I’m amazed that the right-wing Presidential candidate Lee Myung Bak is actually still pulling 50% in the polls. I’m wondering whether the new-ish evidence I’m told has surfaced of his implication in the BBK price-manipulation fraud will be the needle in […]
A blogger who goes by Zocalo left a comment linking to a recent post about imperialist white male English teachers in Asia, and I started to type a reply. The reply got long enough that I knew it’d be multiple comments in the post, so I’m putting it here instead. Before you go on, you […]
It must be weird to be asked to talk to someone with a camera long enough to have an hour and a half of footage. I’m watching the William Gibson documentary No Maps For These Territories, and I’m struck by the difficulty of this kind of “performance.” No doubt it is a performance: sitting around […]
Two posts just got eaten. How come it only happens when I blog using Internet Exploiter? Anyway, I got Wonjjang out the door today. Poor fella has been waiting to be sent out into the cold, cruel world for a while now. That brings my current total number of stories out to market up to […]