Month: January 2011

“Lester Young…” in Enter A Future: Fantastic Tales from Asimov’s Science Fiction

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So I just got an email from Sheila Williams that Asimov’s new Kindle-specific ebook, Enter A Future: Fantastic Tales from Asimov’s Science Fiction, is now available. It features stories by a bunch of amazing writers, namely: Connie Willis Allen Steele Kristine Kathryn Rusch Robert Reed Sara Genge Mary Rosenblum Nancy Kress Daryl Gregory Robert Silverberg (Author) … and, gasp, it also includes something by me. (My story in the collection is this one.) It’s pretty mind-blowing to be in such great company (again–this story seems to do that), and the collection is definitely worth the $7.99 US if you have a …

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Alley Kat, Screen Golf, and Hookers, All in One Place: Only? in Bucheon

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Alley Kat Pale Ale is pretty much the only decently hoppy beer available on tap in most of Korea, and while I’m not really a hophead, I like a few glasses of it now and again. Well, earlier this evening Miss Jiwaku and I happened by a place in Yeokgok that had a big poster showing off the availability of this very fine brew, and we decided to mosey on in and try it. What we found was beyond our wildest imaginings. Miss Jiwaku described it as a “playground for ajeoshis” and that was a pretty fitting description of the …

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As Promised: Gorgeous Renaissance Music

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The other night, I was saying how the world is so full of beautiful things that one could hardly spare the time to be interested in all of them. (It was really my over-stated reason for not having managed to read any of Kelly Link’s stories yet; the real reason is just there are too many books, and SF pushes my buttons more than fantasy, even good fantasy.) I made some comment on how Renaissance music is utterly beautiful but almost nobody listens to it, and ended up promising to play some for the people who were over at my …

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Library Access?

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UPDATE: Got ’em. Thanks to the several people (Claire, Tinatsu) who emailed them to me while I wasn’t looking! ORIGINAL POST: If anyone out there has access to either or both of these articles, I’d be very grateful for a copy. (My own employer’s library being, still, unequipped with any serious research access for Anglophones.) Drevdahl, John E.,  and Raymond B. Cattell. “Personality and creativity in artists and writers.” Journal of Clinical Psychology. Volume 14, Issue 2, pages 107–111, April 1958. (LINK.) Kaun, David E. “Writers die young: The impact of work and leisure on longevity.” Journal of Economic Psychology Volume 12, Issue 2, …

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Belgian Brewday: La Corée en a Quatre (Saison)

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For those who don’t live in Korea, the name of this Saison (Korea Has Four) is a bit of a quip; anyone who has lived here a month or two knows that for some reason, the fact that Korea has four seasons is considered very important by a lot of people here — a fact lampooned in at least one film I’ve seen, Dasepo Sonyeo (Dasepo Naughty Girls). I could get into why this is, and the reasons that such a common thing in the temperate zone attained such an important status in Korea, but this is a post on …

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