Okay, what? This is just toooooooo weird. I wonder sometimes how one is supposed to write SF anymore, given how bizarre the real world is. But don’t get me started on Bushie, I won’t stop…
Category: PERSONAL
The Word From Gurgaon
Well, finally I am updating with something more substantial than a Friday Five… not that F5 is insubstantial, of course, but… Anyway, for those who are wondering, I’m here in Gurgaon (near Delhi) at Ritu’s house. I’m well and happy to wish a Merry Christmas to all those who happen to read this sometime in the next few days. Now… for those of you wondering what has happened during my trip so far…
More Self-Definition
Yes, that’s right, it’s time to use facetious quizzes to define myself in random and unexpected ways… What Kind of Cookie Are You? brought to you by Quizilla
Off I Go…
Writing this with a beautiful Sigur Ros song in my ears: Svefn-G-Englar. Wish I had time to add it to my Listen To… section. The singer keeps on saying, “It’s you—ouu……” and it feels the way I feel right now. Things moving fast, and I’m a small human watching the world spin. And in a few hours, I’ll peel away from the surface, look down in flight at this place where I live, where so many people I care about are… but I’ll be back on the ground sometime tomorrow. I spent a lot of the morning running around getting …
Vote for me!
You too can vote for me over at the Asia Weblog Awards voting site at flyingchair.net. Please do, winning something would be fun and nice. No, don’t put it off. Do it now! Thank you! ;)
If this is it…
Warning! This is NOT a suicide note. My sister says it sounds like one, so I am putting a disclaimer on this post right now. It’s NOT NOT NOT a suicide note. I was just thinking, the other night, about, well, what if I was in one of the rare plane crashes that do occasionally happen. Is there anything I would like not to leave unsaid? I think it’s a little silly how we go about in life not saying things we want to say, so I wrote all the things that came to mind into this post. And there …
Sophists.org
A page called sophists.org. Very worth checking out. Do it now for all kinds of cool philosophy and science and culture-criticism stuff… and it’s one of the best pages I’ve been notified about in a long while.
I Am Avant Garde Indie
I think I only got this result when I answered that question about free jazz. Spuriously, at that. I don’t have a free jazz radio show. But I would if I could… You’re Avante Garde Indie. You listen to abstractmusic like free-jazz and Krautrock. You drinktoo much coffee and you scare the fuck out ofthe rest of us. We’re afraid to call youpretentious because we know that we all justdon’t get it. There are few of you out there,and most of you will probably die soon. You Know Yer Indie. Let’s Sub-Categorize. brought to you by Quizilla
My Last Weekend In Korea For A While
Things have been busy. I’m actually going to let this entry be chopped in half because the second half is me just going on about all the various things I did this weekend. I’m not posting pictures tonight, so all there is here is text. Still, for those who find my blatherings about recent events in my personal life interesting, there’s a long description of my weekend. Which was one of the best weekends I’ve had in a while, by the way. If you’re curious, the Continue reading link is just below this line…
Opinionated
A great article by Stephen Bayley, author of A Dictionary of Idiocy (not yet listed on Amazon), about the importance of being opinionated… which makes me feel pretty good! Here’s a taste: Opinions flourish only in periods or cultures without a dominant religion. A medieval monk in his Cluniac abbey or a contemporary mullah in his mosque and, indeed, a fine Victorian gentleman, had little use for original opinions. The collective opinions of religion are inflexible dogma, not interesting expressions of private thought. The best opinions are contrarian, not conformist, although that is in itself a matter of opinion… In …