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Cement Wall & Tiger Lilies

Cement Wall & Tiger Lillies

Five Authors / Five Questions

Shimmer Magazine included me in their "Five Authors / Five Questions" series. Question number one was "How do you begin a story? Does it start with the idea, a character, an image, a line of dialogue, or are all stories different?" Click here to read my answer.

Thanks to E. Tobler and the rest of the Shimmer crew for including me.

My New Rule

I'm posting this here for my own benefit. You are free to take, leave, or modify this rule as you see fit, but this is how I want to live.

The proper response to a book or short story* is not a blog post about the injustice of the book or story's existence or why it is just so WRONG WRONG WRONG, but to write another book or story addressing the very issues bothering you.

If it's a story that makes you angry then write a story fueled by that anger. If you think the author glossed over important ...

Follow Up

A better analysis of the Aaron Swartz/JSTOR case I mentioned in this post can be found here.

Learn English or It's the Sharp End of the Stick For You

I wonder what their summer English camp is like, and if it at all resembles The Lord of the Flies.

Talk about stressful. Can you imagine having one of these things staring at you during class?

Edgar Pangborn's "The Singing Stick"

I reread Edgar Pangborn's "The Singing Stick" this morning. It's a caveman detective story initially published in 1952 by Ellery Queen Magazine.

"Beyond the river was the melancholy green, almost blackness of advancing pine forest. Ambling naked from his cave into afternoon sunshine, Gnar-of-the-Long-Arms, the Old Man, the leader of the tribe, gazed across the valley. Trouble would come; when it came, the pines would know.

The pines were kindred to the Not-Men they sheltered — bear, wolf...

Jan Morris in Ridlerville

An interesting piece on Jan Morris and her struggles with academia over at Ridlerville.

She took a lot of heat for becoming who she really was, despite being a war veteran, amazing historian and journalist, and wonderful writer. Rumours abounded that positions of influence in universities were denied Morris because of her journey from one gender to the other, that her life as a travel writer was in part a result of these challenges.

The Best Naengmyeon in Pohang

Rotary Naengmyeon

The characters on the glass doors read "Naengmyeon Jonmun" and that means "Naengmyeon Specialty". I like restaurants that have only two things on their menu and both of them are wonderful.

The where? Rotary is located up the street from the CGV movie theater at the 6 Street Intersection (AKA yuk-gori, the "go" is pronounced like it would be in "got") across the street from one entrance to the pedestrian shopping street. It's a family-run restaurant that's been in business for ...

Islands

"On my island there is mountain and clean ocean beautiful forest and hill but they have no name."

"On my island is big mountain and forest. It's fun. The tree is tall. Its river is blue. beautiful!! wow!"