때때로 모두 사람은 행복 하지 아나요. 아니야? 요즈음 생월이 이상 해요. 요즈음 내 할수 없는 것이 나를 괴롭한다. 요즈음 열심히 해봐고있지만 비에를 느끼예요. 요즈음 모두 잘 못해요. 요즈음 친구를 때때로 있읍지만 내 마음에 모두 혼자 해야되요. 어려워운 시간에 비밀 생각을 많아요. 그런데 아마 나중에 살고 해봐는것은 마음대로 해도 좋다. 그런데 요즈음 무거운 짐 있어요. 나 어떻게…?
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Author: gordsellar
Friday Five: Everything starts somewhere
Merideth asked us to name Five things that are such an integral part of your life, you can’t believe someone else introduced them to you. It’s a tough question, but I think I’ll have to say… 1. When I was a kid, the only use I had for computer chips was entertainment. We had an Atari. Boom. Die, alien badguy. Die, evil missile. Boom. But once I got to junior high school, we had to study these machines. It was a room full of Radio Shack TRS-80s that got me going, not my (here, pseudonymous) friend Maurice Fishman’s Commodore 64. …
On the Sudden Inappropriateness of Retarded Frog Jokes
It’s weird living in a place where you don’t see physically handicapped people very often. In Iksan, I think they didn’t get out of the house much. I saw one man in a wheelchair a few times, and a crazy guy whose obsession was to jog in front of the university carrying banners and wearing a track suit with his name on it (the name being one character different from the name of a famous Korean runner). I actually saw a few crazy people wandering about the city day-by-day, but I almost never saw anyone with a physical disability. At …
Jules Verne: Paris in the Twentieth Century
I just finished reading Jules Verne’s Paris in the Twentieth Century about fifteen minutes ago. This book was quite surprising, for Verne is now much more well-known for his adventure stories, like Around the World in Eighty Days and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. In fact, there is a reason that this book remained unknown until the 1990s… his publisher, Hetzel, ironically rejected it as being too unbelievable. Far too unbelieveable to us is this verdict, for in Verne’s Paris of 1961, we see Paris with a working Metro, with electric lights and tap water everywhere, gas automotives and spun-metal …
Edward Said is Dead
Here’s the BBC news report on the death of Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said.
ET and Religions
An ex-girlfriend and I once discussed the idea of life on other planets. I, of course, told her that I was rather certain life had developed all over the universe, but that the universe is such a dangerous place that probably most of it gets routinely wiped out by Mass Extinction Events (more, more, more, more, more, more) before it has a chance to get offworld, develop tech powerful enough to sustain it after a MEE, and that would be why we never see any evidence of anyone else out there. I was flabbergasted to hear her thoughts on the …
They and They and They
In the current issue of The Vocabula Review has a great article Singular They: The Pronoun That Came in from the Cold by Jjoan Ttaber Altieri. Grammar, gender, power, class, language mavens, and the third person singular genderless pronouns. It’s actually worth reading, whatever you think. I found this among many other great articles on the current Arts & Letters Daily.
Another link courtesy of Adam’s
Another link courtesy of Adam’s A violently executed plan. How can the Republicans actually argue that demanding freedom from a theocracy is religious bigotry? It’s beyond me. But apparently it’s beyond those of faith to imagine that not having another’s religious beliefs and practices imposed on one is crucial to living in a free society… and crucial to their own right to practice the religion of their choice. I wonder how they’d deal with living in an America run by Scientologist or New Age fundamentalists. I almost wish I could see that happen for the amusement pattern.
Cuddly Dalai Lama?
Here’s an article that was sent to me by two people, both John Wendel and, about an hour later, by Mer. It’s about how the cuddly feelgood New Age version of the Dalai Lama is our fantasy creation. The “us” to whom I ascribe this “our” being, of course, the New Age feelgood-addicted West. I know John and Mer both very likely know that my own thinking on the issue of Tibet and the Tibetan government-in-exile (ie. the theocracy that was desposed by Chinese soldiers) is far from blind sympathy, but I did realize that perhaps many of the people …
Attention Poets Laureate
Don’t write “rap poems”. If that’s what the job requires, for goodness sakes turn it down. (Or, at least do a better bloody job of it.) By the way, I side with many of the commenters: it’s embarrassing, and I think it says something about the monarchy that this is what is offered and accepted.