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September 17, 2011
"Your Mother" Goes Wild With Space Squid
I have a story in "Space Squid Gone Wild: The Best Comics, Stories, and Features From Five Years of America's Favorite Unknown Zine."
My story is all about "Your Mother".
Actuate a copy for yourself today!
"Your Mother" Seen Going Wild With Space Squid
I have a story in "Space Squid Gone Wild: The Best Comics, Stories, and Features From Five Years of America's Favorite Unknown Zine."
My story is all about "Your Mother".
Actuate a copy for yourself today!
September 16, 2011
Some Recent Pictures
Most of these were taken over Chuseok.
The last picture is of a Buddhist temple near Jin's parents' apartment. There are hiking trails around it and we went out one morning to explore the area, but didn't get far because I slipped in a puddle and pulled a hamstring.
And you'd think my hollering in pain (and passing out) would have roused up a monk or two, but nope… I rode that wheel of Samsara all alone.
F'n Buddhists…
September 14, 2011
Gerard Jones on Finding Your Story
Oh no, this is my third post in a row on writing (!) after I've said how much I hated writing posts (!!). But it's true I do hate writing posts, only this is from an interview with Gerard Jones. I loved Jones' Killing Monsters and Men of Tomorrow. Read them. They are great.
September 13, 2011
The Secret To Writing
From the movie adaption of Charles Willeford's The Woman Chaser. I can't remember the exact quote from the book, but I think this is close. Possibly the best piece of writing advice you'll ever find in a misogynistic 1950s smut novel.
September 12, 2011
Ignoring Critiques
In my continuing quest to make rules to ignore apply to myself, here's another one:
I read two books this week. Their names don't matter much. I liked them both. They had me "turning pages". But both had what I'll call critique problems.
A critique group's job is to find faults, but not all faults need to be corrected, nor can all faults be corrected. A critique problem is that thing your critique group would suggest changing, but shouldn't be changed because doing so would grossly alter your v...
September 9, 2011
Happy Chuseok!
Happy Chuseok! We're off to Jinju for the holiday. We should be back sometime early next week.
September 7, 2011
10 Quotes For Today Apropos of Nothing
1. "Do not be afraid of irreverence towards the memory of those who controlled your childhood." – Bertrand Russell
2. "A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good." – Samuel Johnson
3. "Everyone has inside themself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to their advantage." – William S. Burroughs
4. "The collapse will not be televised. Ignored and alone, each of us will experience it singly. As blemish and accusation, you will be...
September 5, 2011
10 Favorite Books
Apropos of nothing, here's a list of 10 "favorite" books. As with all such lists I get to number five then the whole thing becomes a fist fight. They are listed in no particular order.
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Slam by Lewis Shiner
Radio Free Albemuth by P.K. Dick
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Odile by Raymond Queneau
The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith
Kalpa Imperial by Angelica Gorodischer
The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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September 3, 2011
Muddled in Translation
Jin's doing some translation work, so she's become more sensitive to the way things are translated here. Examples:
1.) We're watching an English language show subtitled in Korean, something on the Discovery Channel. The narrator speaks of a "promising failure". This however was subtitled in Korean as "expected failure", as if "promising" meant "promised" and therefore the failure was "expected" instead of being a failure that showed the way forward. The whole thing struck me as very curious...
