Today I’m creating the new page for my blog. For now it’ll be hosted at Blogspot, until I have a webspace of my own. I guess this is worth the practice, so I’ll try a few things here first.
Author: gordsellar
My Bio
I was born on March 4, 1974 in Blantyre, Malawi to Ghislaine Pineault, a French-Canadian, and Gordon Kinlay Sellar. To avoid confusion, my parents gave me the middle name Alexander, but kept the rest the same as my father at his father’s insistence. That makes me the 3rd Gordon in a row. But I much prefer to be called Gord. It’s also a lot easier for Koreans to pronounce (as “Go-duh”), which is helpful to me these days.
Seoul, November 15-16 2002
The Incheon Airport Limousine bus glides through the heavy mist. I’m
almost there, and I need to shake off the lethargy. My girlfriend is already
high in the air, soaring toward Adelaide in a Cathay Air jet, and I feel somehow
deflated, exhausted.
Top Ten Lists
Top Ten lists are, as everyone who saw High Fidelity knows all too well, one of the great and ancient hallmarks of a music geek’s thinking. But I normally don’t engage in that. In fact, I’m usually far too haphazard about things. However, I have on occasion been asked to formulate a couple of lists for people who wanted to get into new jazz or explore things that they wouldn’t know to look into unless someone told them about it. I wrote this for a couple of people over on The Culture Mailing List. I know it’s cheating to make …
Hamlet’s age, mirror neurons, immersive realism, and imagination
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:58:46 -0400 To: (deleted) From: Gord Sellar Subject: Hamlet’s age, mirror neurons, immersive realism, and imagination CC: (deleted) BCC: (deleted) X-Attachments: Hey. I know, I know, this is long . . . Some of you might remember me asking you a question about Hamlet’s age. Others of you are having this inflicted on your for the purpose of farming out the ideas in the end of the thing, and hopefully eliciting responses. I have the answer to the Hamlet question, now, so I thought I would share what I found. But a much more difficult …