Stavros, at EmptyBottle.org, posts an article titled “New Day Dawning” about the recent elections in Korea. Well worth reading.
Author: gordsellar
Language Humor
Over at Katolik Shinja, some linguistic jokes. They’re pretty good. In my opinion, anyway.
Great blog out there
Discovered this fascinating blog out there… haven’t had time to dig as much as I’d like but I shall post this in part to remind myself to return to Overboard and see what fascinating things Andi has to say. Andi, you’re over in Gunsan? Have you read Pascal Boyer’s _Religion Explained_? I know, presumptuous title, but actually a good science book about religion, least for explaining its presence in relation to our evolutionary history. You can see more about that over in the discussion archives at a philosophy page a buddy and I run called New Sophists’ Almanac, and if …
Schild’s Ladder
I just finished reading Schild’s Ladder, by Greg Egan. What a wonderful, strange novel. It’s philosophical, inventive beyond anything I’ve read in years, and powerful, as well as stuffed full not only of enough advanced science to make my head hurt, but also characters so interesting, believable, and engaging that I savoured every minute I spent reading the book… though, for the sake of my poor brain I had to put it down rather often. It’s a wonderful book full of so many cool science-fictional ideas, and it goes so far beyond space opera that I think it warrants a …
Polling
Last week’s poll is now closed with twelve votes. For the question, “If Gord were to write something about you, what would you want it to be?”, the winning option, with 25% of the votes, went to, “A simple, short, and beautiful poem.” The runner-up position was a foure-way tie between four other options. To see the results in more detail, please click here. And please remember to vote in the new poll, in the right sidebar. Which is about my busted finger.
Music Stuff
Here are all those links I was looking for. Last night, Dabang Band opened (without me, due to my damned finger problem) for labelmates Zzam (which I think they’re translating as “Drowsy Music” in English though their name is just a stylized way of writing the verb “sleep” in Korean). Anyway, they were good enough to convince me to buy a copy of their new CD, which doesn’t appear on their own CD (it’s just been released, maybe they haven’t updated yet) but which can be seen and sampled on the website hosted by their label, Cavare. Cavaret is, incidentally, …
saturday
spending hours together in the warmth of afternoons and never feeling like it’s quite long enough. how do people from such different worlds find their ways into one another’s lives? saw a good band live, tonight; two, actually: mine playing without me (they’re good that way) and a Seoul banmd called Zzam. got their CD; would link to them but can’t find a thing online. will try later. sorry for the short form.we’re socializing with the band and i’m being antisocial. also hard to type with this huge finge splint. ungh.
Poll On Hold
Hey, guys, I have a new poll done up but I am waiting for the tiebreaker vote on the last one. If you’ve not voted, please do: the poll’s down to the right in the sidebar. Come on, the next one is timely and funny.
Finally I Know The Truth
You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already topreserve the English tongue, it should be.Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla (Via a whole schwack of blogs I’ve seen of late…)
My Mom’s Favorite CD Of Long Ago
I was playing this CD for Lime a few days ago, and then again today I subjected Heather to it, since I had it out when she was over for tea. I decided to Google Florence Foster and found this online: a page with CDs by the hands-down worst singer I’ve ever heard. With audio clips that are worth checking out! (The clip I’ve linked to begins the copy of the CD I have, and it was enough to have Lime saying, “Please! No more! Turn it off!” amid wild laughter. There’s a woman this Florence Foster Jenkins has a …