Over the last couple of months, I’ve seen an unusual number of orchestra concerts, and mostly they’ve been quite good. I’ll get to all that in a bit, but I want to generalize a little about concertgoing in Korea first. The programs here tend to be even more conservative than what I was used to […]
Happy Earthday. (It was celebrated on the weekend in Seoul. I missed it. Aiesh!)
That title is Korean for “Herbs.” Predictably, it’s pronounced “Huh-beu.” Almost like the word “hub”, with an “eugh” added to the b at the end, to make it two syllables. (Have I ever mentioned that “crazy,” when pronounced with a Korean accent, has four syllables?) After a few years of my fruitlessly trying to score […]
I’m grading at the moment, and I ran across something so priceless I couldn’t NOT share. (I am not mentioning the student’s name, so it’s anonymous, but as a piece of observation by someone from another part of Northeast Asia, it’s fascinating and made me laugh aloud!) It’s from a paper discussing the hybridity of […]
Heads up! “Asimov’s SF: Next Issue” Gord Sellar, making a memorable Asimov’s debut, takes us on a long, strange trip around the Solar System with an unlikely cadre of jazz legends in “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues”… It’s coming soon, folks! I’m giddy. (Hat tip to reader.)