Justin Howe's Blog, page 60
October 17, 2011
Oh, Look. Pretty.
Hand-colored Lumiere Brothers film from 1896 of Loie Fuller dancing with (modern) music by Raph Regan.
October 16, 2011
Things I Learned From Watching Public School Musicals All Day
Never give up on your dreams even when your father beats you.
Husbands wouldn't kill themselves if their wives cooked for them more often.
Don't be a jerkface especially if you're Cinderella.
People listen to reason. It's really quite simple. Like this:
Villain: I'm going to do this evil thing.
Hero: Don't do that evil thing. It's bad and will hurt people.
Villain: Oh, you're right. How foolish of me...
October 11, 2011
Everything I Know About Science Fiction I Learned From Reading Comics
So…
I'm having a weird fit of nostalgia. Most specifically for late Bronze Age Space Opera/Post-Apocalyptic comics. Off the top of my head I can remember reading:
1. Dreadstar (My dad read this comic and didn't want my brother and I to know.)
2. Atari Force
3. Scout (going to put Dragon Chang here too.)
4. The Marvel Star Wars Comic (Do you remember Den Siva?)
5. The Micronauts
6. Stark Future (Has anyone else heard of this let alone read it?)
7. Alien Legion (really should be #1 on this list. Never ...
October 10, 2011
El Hombre
It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!
- William Carlos Williams
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October 8, 2011
October 5, 2011
And Another Quick One…
I was walking back to my classroom yesterday when I passed three of my students carrying a box full of dirt and test tubes.
These three are a rather nerdy trio, so I like them. The dirt and test tubes made me curious and I asked what they were doing They froze, looked at me, looked at the box, had a quick whispered conversation in Korean, and then one finally looked me straight in the eye and said in the loudest voice I'd ever heard her use, "SCIENCE!" before they all ran off.
It was the best a...
You know what I forgot sucked? Puberty.
Here's a Wednesday check in. My hay fever is raging fierce and mean so don't expect much in the way of segues.
You know what I forgot sucked? Puberty.
Holy shit does puberty suck. You go from playing with GI Joes, drawing rainbows, and unicorns to crying uncontrollably for five hours and breaking out in zits all in the span of one week. And that's just the early stages. Give it a few years and you're a sanctimonious twit outraged because the book kiosk in the mall doesn't have a copy of Naked...
October 3, 2011
Quotidian Pohang – Three Day Weekend Edition
Stuff done this weekend:
Ate noodles and hotteok, not together but on the same day. While eating noodles the restaurant owner gave me some tips on how to hold my chopsticks. Hotteok remains delicious if not nutritious.
Printed out Clusterfuck, the Novel (it'll either be called The Crooked Ones or Castle Junction depending on which pile of story-corpses wins the fistfight). This necessitated purchasing a printer and three printer cartridges to print the whole thing.
A new coffee shop opened up...
September 30, 2011
Quotidian Pohang
Apologies for the fuzzy picture, but I didn't have my camera with me.
This is the big intersection near our apartment. The big TV screen was likely showing a commercial for a restaurant and not just white light.
In the Shadow of Genre
I was sitting in a bar tonight reading Mary Renault's novel, The King Must Die. It's a pretty fun book, and while it's a mundane, magic-free novel about Ancient Greece, its characters clearly believe they inhabit a "magical" world animated by gods and spirits. Theseus and his fellows believe in the whole Greek pantheon with greater conviction than one normally encounters in contemporary mainstream fantasy.
It got me thinking. A lot of fantasy seems to take its cues from the pulps. But I...
