I was just getting my papers together to send off for my Criminal Record Check and I came across a ton of expired old ID cards. My student/faculty cards from undergrad and grad school (I was issued a student card and then, as a TA, soon after got a faculty card at Concordia); my old S.I.N. card (Soc...

Continuing on the Great Depression theme from yesterday’s post: the current episode of This American Life, #368 which was titled, “Who Do You Think You Are?” is outstanding, featuring old interviews of people who’d survived the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression, the horror...

I don’t usually use soundtracks for posts, but hey, it’s always worth doing something a little different sometimes, right? My friend Jack was, when I first met him, a devoted inhabitant of that space where black and white and poor and crazy meet in early American music. He introduced me ...

Would it be weirder if a famous horror movie producer/director — Brian Yuzna, a successful popularizer of H.P. Lovecraft in cinematic form — had stopped off in the Washington area and visited my site and crapped in the comments section over a disagreement with my opinion on zombies movie...

“How was your dinner?” the shop lady asked me. I sputtered, in Korean, “The food was good, but this crazy… crazy… this crazy b-i-t-c-h messed up my whole evening. You know, if this were Canada, I’d call the cops. And the cops would come, and it wouldn’t be e...

Tesseracts Twelve: Canadian Genre Fiction at its Best... I haven’t seen it yet — as I’m in Korea, and it’s not stocked here, and I haven’t gotten a contributor’s copy yet — but I see that over on Amazon.ca, Tesseracts Twelve is available. (Here’s the l...

Well, lots of things going on… in a personal sense, too, though I’m not ready to blog my recent news. Instead: There’s some great fiction online that I need to link to. For now, just one story: the wonderfully nastyglee party that is Tina Connolly’s “A Day Out, with Ste...

This post is part of a series titled "Who's Complaining in Korea": The Expattes Compleynte The Iri Yeok Explosion, and the Iksan Landfill Crisis NCC-1492 and The Good Ship Daehan This is part three in a series. You may wish to read the above links. If you don’t: Part 1 discussed reasons why so...

This post is part of a series titled "SF in South Korea": It’s Not Just the Lateness of Industrialization: How and Why Korean SF Doesn’t Quite Work Why SF Has Failed to Put Down Roots in Korea, Part I: To Start With, Questions… K-Raelians plus The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How S...

This oldish post at Acephalous reminded me of some of my more unusual dreams in years past. (And, SEK, if you’re reading this, the dream you reminded me of most was the Malatesta one, later on in this post.) I really do sometimes wish that I was more capable of remembering dreams, or maybe I j...