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Category: PERSONAL
Rest In Peace, Shawn
I have been out of touch so long with the blogosphere that the sad passing of Shawn, who used to write the Korea Life Blog way back when, until he moved to China and wrote the China Life Blog, did not reach my attention. I didn’t know Shawn beyond a very brief few moments in Yongsan station, where I met him and his then-girlfriend. He sold me his old desktop computer. I don’t know how much later it was that he moved to China. I never really read his blog, but I did get some of the inspiration for making …
The Accursed Italians (Not All Of Them)
The only ones who are accursed are the ones who share files of English-language movies, dubbed in Italian, and don’t note the fact anywhere so you only find out the damned file is dubbed in Italian until after you’ve downloaded it. Those ones, they’re very, very accursed.
The Korea Times : Nationalism and Racism in Korea
Sad to say, but Mr. Le Fou (an obvious penname) has a point. What’s sadder is that every criticism leveled by a foreigner is met with either: You’re generalizing. Well, yeah. It’s possible to generalize in useful ways. When you have TV ads showing black people as cannibals showing on air and people think it’s cute instead of offensive; when you repeatedly experience people saying black people say “Oooh-oooh ahhh-ahh-aaahhh” like monkeys — not just once, but over and over — then you can usefully generalize. You can generalize that a certain degree of overt racism is not just tolerated …
If You’re In Korea and Have This Book…
… please let me know. This book, I mean: Comfort Women Speak: Testimony by Sex Slaves of the Japanese Military by Sangmie Choi Schellstede (Editor) and Soon Mi Yu (Photographer). I’m looking for it not only so I know more about the issue (and yes, it’s not the only book I’m looking for, but the others look more gettable), but also for research for a Clarion Workshop story I’m planning to revise. If you have this book, and don’t mind loaning it to me — or if you can get it from a library and would be willing to do …
Stanley’s Slides
Great photoset on flicker: someone scanning her grandpa Stanley’s slides. Wonderful, and again, revelatory of the mystery of other peoples’ lives.
Jazzpunk
In honor of the novella I wrote in week 6 of the workshop, an alien-infested alternate history story that Vernor Vinge claimed was to jazz what hard SF is to science, when my turn for facepainting came during one of our final parties, I asked whether Tina could do the script you see below. It reads “je-jeu pun-keu”, which is how one would write “Jazzpunk” in Korean. (Though I might have misspelled that first vowel… it’s always a guess whether it’s a-e or eo-e. I predict the two will be collapsed into one vowel, probably a-e, within 200 years. Which …
Probably Negative
I helped my Mom clean out the garage today, and by dinnertime I could barely breathe. Why do I keep forgetting I’m allergic to dust? So anyway, I got a sore throat (on the left side), laboured breathing, and my left eye turned red. I’m guessing it’s all probably just dust allergy, but… (… and here’s where you get to shake your head at me…)
Feed?
If you’re subbed to my feed, could you tell me which address you’re subbed to? I just poked in at feedburner and found zero subscribers, which doesn’t make sense since I had a number of people subscribed not long ago. Thanks! UPDATE: I got it sorted out. I just happened to have two accounts at Feedburner and was logging in to the wrong one. Whoopsie!
Ask Away!
Hey y’all, ask me some questions in the comments section of this post. I would like everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want. Ask anything.Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything. As I tell my students, I’ll answer almost any question. Copied from Stephanie’s LJ.