Right, EFL Geek tagged me in a meme where the rules are like this: Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog Share 7 facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird Tag seven people at the end of your post Let them know they’ve been tagged Right, here are seven things you probably don’t know about me…
Month: January 2009
Twilight, But Better, or, Even a Crappy Vampire Film Can Be Improved by Ripping off White Wolf Games’s World of Darkness
Okay, so, I’d already been expecting crap. (I mean CRAP.) My SF-reading friends warned me. Reviews and discussions online warned me. I mean, even non-SF people had told me that Twilight was a bad movie, but when it hit theaters in Korea this December, I decided I would go and see it. It took me until a day or two ago to follow through with that. And of course, it was crap. (I mean CRAP.)
The Man to See About a Cat
A friend of mine in grad school, when excusing himself to go to the men’s room, always said, “I gotta go see a man about a dog.” Well, I have cats, not a dog, but there comes a time when you have to see a man about a cat, too. Especially when it’s a boy cat, and the boy cat hits that age — roughly six months, roughly 4 kilograms in weight, when he starts spraying and longing to venture forth off your 3rd floor balcony and see what the neighborhood she-cats have to offer. (And by the way, when …
Super Expat Man
Ganked from an old post at Seoul Daddy. What can I say except it’s a stereotype for a reason? (Though there’s another stereotype lurking in there — the angry expat woman — which is also, well, a stereotype for a reason.) Or maybe archetype is the word I’m really thinking of? An archetype that gets taken up and roleplayed, in some cases? Hmm. Makes me think of Graham Greene novels, now…
Twitterfiction
My friend Maura mentioned selling some stories to this newish SF/F/H venue for fiction, called Thaumatrope, which publishes content Twitter-style. I don’t use Twitter myself — mainly because I can’t access it throughout the day, mobile-wise, at least not for now, and it feels like that would be the real point of Twitter. (That may change if and when I get a smartphone, but for now, I’m overloaded enough when I sit down to my computer.) “Stories” is one way of putting it what Thaumatrope publishes, anyway. Twitter posts can be, at most, 140 characters. If you think flash fiction …