Justin Howe's Blog, page 63
September 3, 2011
Up a Mountain
Mossy roots. Also the best picture I took all day.
This one is for the Mossy Skull.
I did a bit of hiking today on Mount Naeyeon outside of Pohang City. It's actually still in Pohang county but an hour by bus north of downtown. It was a beautiful late summer day: windy and relatively cool. It rained when we got off the bus but cleared up when we reached the trail. The trail runs beside a river then loops around one of the peaks. There's thirteen (twelve?) waterfalls along the trail. We passed m...
September 2, 2011
What He Said
Here's something I've been thinking about said better than I could. It's from Gord Sellar's blog and deals with "Industrialization of Culture". And while Gord's speaking in terms of k-pop and girl groups, he mentions it being a wider trend:
August 31, 2011
A Wash
Apparently, this week is a wash.
Not that it has been a bad week, not at all, but a few curveballs got thrown my way and I'm focussing on them along with the usual project. So the blog is on the back burner, which I'll say now should be expected. Blogging is somewhat lowish on my list of priorities. Well, sort of. I'm reluctant to just put up any post and would rather have none than a lot of filler or worse, posts I regret. I wrote one all about how much I love Ken Watanabe's hair (best over 3...
August 25, 2011
The View From Scum Beach
The big beach in Pohang is called Bukbu. It has the decent beachfront where masses of people loiter about and do their beach thing like promenade, drink too much, and sleep on the sand. I live near Songdo Beach, which I'm going to hence forth refer to as Scum Beach.
It's actually not that bad, but if you saw it you'd know what I meant. Still it's cool to see people parasurf or whatever down there.
You know how when you're eating lobster and are licking melted butter from your fingers, and the w...
August 24, 2011
Control
I'm not a fan of writing posts, especially those written by unpublished, self-published, and/or "neo-pro" writers. Nor am I fan of "celebrity slushreaders" going on about how they dream a story they select might win a Nebula like they were right there writing the story beside the author, or at the very least keeping their tea mug filled, as if reading slush wasn't the equivalent of being so much human baleen.
Bullshit on all that.
But I've got two writing posts itching to get off my fingers so ...
August 23, 2011
Boast of Quietness
Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors.
The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.
Sure of my life and death, I observe the ambitious and would like to
understand them.
Their day is greedy as a lariat in the air.
Their night is a rest from the rage within steel, quick to attack.
They speak of humanity.
My humanity is in feeling we are all voices of that same poverty.
They speak of homeland.
My homeland is the rhythm of a guitar, a few portraits...
August 22, 2011
Awesome Archer Guy
My wife feels guilty when we watch Korean movies and they're not in subtitles. It's not much of a problem since we tend to watch period action movies and I dig the fight scenes. (The Korean I know is limited to numbers, a few phrases to keep me from starving/dying of thirst, and jinja which is Korean for "No way!" You wouldn't believe the mileage you can get out of jinja…)
And really in action movies are hard is it? You know the good guys and you know the bad guys and you know which...
August 20, 2011
Revell Box Art
Here's an assortment of box art from Revell. I wish I knew the artist's name. These pictures come from Plastic Soldier Review.
August 18, 2011
Alleys
"Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time, the discarded times of all the men and women who have lived, worked, dreamed and died in the streets which grow like a willfully organic thing, unfurl like petals of a mired rose and yet lack evanescence so entirely that they preserve the past in haphazard layers, so this alley is old while the avenue that runs beside it is newly built but nevertheless has been built over the deep-down, dead-in-the-ground relics of the older...
August 17, 2011
Yesterday I Might Have Made a Joke and Other Stuff
Yesterday I was at the beach. A lovely place, it overlooks a giant steam-spewing steel mill. They light it up with neon at night. When the flames shoot out it looks just like Bladerunner. Someone I had never met before was telling a story about someone I didn't know.
Guy: He's like Daniel Craig if Daniel Craig was a pale fat Canadian…
Me: So like if Daniel Craig looked more like John Candy?
Guy: Yeah.
At some point later I ended up filling out Driver Safety Evaluation forms for Hyundai. (The...
