I have in the past written about negative things in my experience in Korea, and not as much (especially in recent years) about positive experiences. So I thought I’d talk about a positive one, and believe it or not, it was a class discussion of the recent blackface incident on MBC TV.
Month: March 2012
Bacon #4
When I am insanely busy — and these days, with me at the office until midnight getting various things done, I am — one thing I can do that takes very little time or attention, but which still results in Neat Stuff in the end, is curing meat. I’m now on my 4th pork belly as far as my bacon-making adventures are concerned, and about to make a departure. To recap the last three bacons: Oversalted savory bacon. This was not usable for much besides throwing in a piece or two into a soup, for seasoning and meat flavor (in …
Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Canto IV
This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, one by one (so far — I may deal with a few at a time on occasion). They are not exactly typical readings of the poems, so much as readings I’m doing with a specific research project in mind — how to write Ezra Pound as a figure in a novel in which modernist artists, poets, and musicians secretly waged an occult war in the earlier half of the 20th century. If you’d like to know more about the project, I …
Busy Brewday: Wonmisan White Mahakala / Wonmisan Tokkaebi
I’m incredibly busy at the moment with a few writing deadlines, but I never feel quite right when my fermenters are all empty, so I figured I’d do a quick parti-gyle brew today and ended up with the simplest recipe possible: a partigyle, 50/50, with 7.3 kilograms of pilsner as the complete mash. I can split the wort runoff at the 50% point and end up with a good strong wort for making a Belgian Golden Strong Ale (adding a packet of clear candi syrup, of course) and still have a 1.031 wort to blend some honey into, in order …
The Music of Jo Hyeja: Audio Work Done
I mentioned recently that I had “finished” working on the music for “The Music of Jo Hyeja.” Well, last night we well-and-truly finished work on the audio, except perhaps for swapping in one musical track. We went over to Mediact, an organization that exists to help develop and promote the independent film industry in Korea,m teach people who to make films, and help people complete projects without having to sell everything they own. The sound engineers we hired work there, and helped us master the audio for “The Music of Jo Hyeja” for what is probably a lot less money …