A relative newcomer to the Friday Five, Tanya the Happy Tester asks: Due to a highly improbable circumstance, you have the power to create or destroy 5 of the laws where you live. This could be anything from changing a local ordinance to overturning case law to drafting new sections of your constitution. What do you change? That’s a really interesting question, and I’m not sure I can really answer it in the way it’s intended. You see, most of the problems I have with South Korean law have to do with their enforcement, as opposed to the laws themselves, …

rob asks: i’ve been wondering about discontent lately and how it seems to be something fundamental in the human makeup, like lipstick or eyeshadow. so, to undermine the power of discontent i think we should be able to walk in someone elses shoes, though bring your odoureaters if you’re borrowing mine; hence , name five people you would swap your life with for a day. Damn, a tough tough question, and of course the big problem for me with it is that I don’t know the metaphysics of it. If I die in the other person’s body, do I stay …

This week, for the Friday5, Pogo asks: 5 outstanding places to eat – where & why? Well, now, this is slightly different from the last food-based F5 question, in that it asks where are the five best places to eat, period. I’m going to limit the answer to places I have eaten in the last year, and which are within normal travel distance for me in a given week… These days, I have to say my favorite place to eat out is a little speciality place near Jeonbuk University. Often I meet Lime at the front gate of the University, …

A mite late, this week’s Friday Five comes from Mojave Sixty-Six, who asked: …what are five things that have happened in your life that you can now say “well, it’s certainly funny in retrospect….” Here are five moments I can look back on and laugh at, now, though they seemed almost unbearable at the time… Two words: bowl cut. I’m 14. It’s my birthday. I’ve decided we ought to rent The Exorcist and watch it at my birthday party sleepover. It scared the hell out of me, and the other boys at my party decided I ought to sleep on …

After the complex questions of the last few months, it’s nice to see a simpler question from Dan for this week’s F5: Who are your five favorite visual artists? This includes painters, photographers, etc., even video stuff. I can’t say I’m all that into visual art, but I think I can summon up a few things. For one thing, I’m quite partial to the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky. I know, Kandinsky is supposed to be a stage everyone passes through at Uni, right? Well, for me it has been more than that. While I really got into Dali for a …