In other words, Happy Korean New Year! (And yeah, they got it from the Chinese. Whatever.) Me, I’m stuffed with rice cake and dumpling soup, and am now having having a nice Leffe Blond, which brings back memories of Montréal. (Not my favorite beer, now, as it was then, but then, it was my first beer, followed by Sleeman’s Honey Brown Lager, Guinness, Harp, and whatever else I could afford. It took till my second year in Montreal to arrive at beer; the first year was taken up with red wine. Which is to segue gracelessly to the fact that …
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Amusements
A few random amusements for you, before I toddle off to get some real work done: A terrible audio track that my friend Jack posted that WILL make you laugh. Sunset Grill is a webcomic made by my friend Kat. Anyone notice that Obama mentioned non-believers in his inauguration speech without calling them unAmerican? That was interesting.
Koreabeat Translates Lime
Koreabeat recently translated a post by Lime that was written a few years ago, wherein she criticized the writing courses at a hakwon she’d tried out. She was quite surprised to see this fact. And almost immediately someone assumed she was criticizing white hakwon teachers, when, ironically, she was talking about writing courses taught by Korean teachers to Korean students. Someone also IDed her almost immediately. Now I can’t help but wonder if I know SKFK personally, or what?
Slightly Disturbing
19 Created by OnePlusYou – Free Dating Sites The thing is, it’s probably about right. I’ve been around large groups of little kids — not five year olds, but first and second graders. And I think that number’s about right. I’d tire out and they’d drag me down, and then it’d be game over.
Feed Update
Those who are reading this by feed will note that I’ve made some changes to the feed. Pretty much all I’ve really done is splice in my del.icio.us links and my (neglected) Flickr stream into the main feed. You’ll see updated links posted to del.icio.us, plus ay new photos that show up. One reason is that I sometimes have links I’d like to post and share, but which I don’t feel really have enough to say about to write about them. One downside is that they won’t, I don’t think, appear on the Livejournal mirror of the site, but I’m …
Upcoming in Seoul: Brad Mehldau
He’s playing in Seoul with a trio on March 4th. That’s my birthday, and the man can play, so now I’m thinking… Never heard Brad Mehldau? Here’s a gig on NPR that’ll get you thinking about whether you’ll be bumping into me at the show.
Hitting the Gym
I haven’t mentioned it here — unlike on Facebook — but I have been hitting the gym for a little while lately. While, yes, the endorphins actually do kick in once I’ve been doing it a while, and yeah, I do feel a bit healthier after a few days of it, I’ll be really honest: I hate exercising. Everything about it: the sweatiness, the aches and pains, the irritation to my very vulnerable Achilles tendons, the bother of going and doing it, the guilt that kicks in at not doing it (and not having done it enough for most of …
Closer To the Mark
You know you’re getting closer to the mark when your story is rejected by the editor, at a magazine where I’ve only always been bounced by the Guardian at the Gates of Slush. It’s not a sale, but yeah, it was a rejection letter that made me smile. And no, I’m not posting it here.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Doh and Whew!
Well, I don’t know why, but suddenly my blog template is malfunctioning in a very weird, and very specific way. I’m not sure what the cause is, or whether it has to do with my recently upgrading to the most recent version of WordPress, but for some reason, the templates that are working perfectly on every other page are not working at all on my main “blog” page. (I have to add an extra div, and if I don’t, my footer appears at the top of the page and obliterates the top post. I suppose it was time for a …
Missed It?
If you missed it in the print edition, you can check out my Korean SF story “The Country of the Young” in the Fictionwise eMagazine edition of Interzone 219, available now.