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Series: Gin Lane & Soju-Ro

The original posts I wrote while looking into the Gin Craze. I didn’t know then that I would be writing a novel set in the time period… at the time, I was just interested in how Korea seemed to have a relationship with its own horrible-tasting, industrial-strength hard-liquor, soju, as the Londoners of the Early Georgian era did with gin. From such humble beginnings… well, you know.

Gin Lane & Soju-ro: Part 1 — The Preamble

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Gin Lane & Soju-Ro

Right, so I said this would be a long time in coming, but yesterday afternoon and evening — during my train ride in and out of Seoul, as well as during a couple of breaks I took when the humidity and heat and human density proved too much for me at the protest I attended […]

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July 6, 2008August 19, 2019 gordsellar11 Comments

Interlude: Reading Chamiseul, and Revisiting Gin Lane

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Gin Lane & Soju-Ro

So I was in the cinema waiting for a movie to start, and I saw this advertisement for 참이슬 soju. I found it both interesting and depressing. If you watch it, I’ll be you can see why: Basically, the ad suggests that all human social interactions that aren’t lubricated by alcohol suck. Alcohol is, of […]

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June 27, 2010October 19, 2013 gordsellarNo Comments

More on the Gin Craze

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Gin Lane & Soju-Ro

A long time ago, I started a planned series of posts that didn’t go very far, drawing some parallels between the England of the Gin Craze era (the early 1700s) and Korea in the first decade of the 21st century. I’m still not feeling like continuing it, but I am reading up on the Gin […]

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May 21, 2013April 20, 2014 gordsellar3 Comments

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Writing Projects Tracker

At the Mountains of Baekdu—revision 75%
A**hole Island—Final Edit/Rewrite 85%
Zymurgic, Book 1—revision stage 3 1%

RECENT/UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.

EU Webstore | US Webstore US Webstore | PDF at DTRPG

My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available for €4.25, over at the publisher's website.

My short story "Sojourn" appeared in A City of Han.

Available on Amazon.com, or, in Seoul, from the Fiction Writers in Seoul website.


See a complete list of my publications and forthcoming work.

Stuff to Read

An annex of free stuff to read: stories, poems, and nonfiction.

SERIES & STANDOUT POSTS


ON WRITING & READING

For Writers. A collection of exercises & Intuition Pumps

My ongoing series Blogging Ezra Pound's The Cantos.

My ongoing (but only occasionally updated) series on SF in South Korea.

ON MUSIC

What We Talk About When We Talk About Music. A lengthy discussion of music and the arts, and what we've let corporations do to our culture:

ON KOREA & LIVING THERE

Five Expat Social Fallacies, a riff on the famous geek social fallacies.

On Teaching Writing in a Korean University

ON RPGS & GAMES

With a Side of Kimchi: My First Brush with Fiasco, an actual play report on my first game of Fiasco.

Talent Night: a prep/actual play report on my first RPG game in a decade and a half, back in 2013, played with Dread, including a free copy of the scenario.

ON OTHER SUBJECTS

How to Kill Your Successful Business in Five Easy Steps, a series on really bad business practices I've seen in action.

MUSIC

Dabang Band/다방밴드

Check out the Dabang Band website:

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My SoundCloud Stuff

You can also check out a lot of my own music over on Soundcloud.

CONSUMPTIVE

  • What I'm reading now.
  • What I've read this year.
  • TV/movies I've watched this year.
  • Older watchlists on my IMDB account.

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