From yesterday’s search term traffic stats, my favorite one so far: korean artistes and sleep around This week’s new Google Search header image for this week comes from the film No Regret, a Korean independent film released last year, a love story between a young orphaned college student, who supports himself as a male escort, [...]
Entries from September 2007
September 30, 2007
Media Inconveniently Makes Household Name of Clinton Bundler, Norman Hsu, Thus Too Busy To Give Romney Bundler Equal Time
Media Matters continues to be among the most relevant places I can go to on the web. This came yesterday, via their email list: an analysis of the disparity in press coverage between Norman Hsu, the Clinton donor bundler who was arrested recently, and Alan Fabian, a Romney donor bundler, who was just indicted. You’ve [...]
September 27, 2007
If you remember from reading Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the changes go slowly and then quick.
Amherst Coffee, 11AM, with my two students, Anna and Steve, in a Special Topics in the short story. Me: Did you see that Verizon is now blocking users from receiving text message alerts from NARAL? Anna: That’s like a story we might have written from last week’s assignment, if we’d teamed up.* [Points at Steve] [...]
September 27, 2007
I kind of want to turn my face into a mask that never moves.
Setting: Jetblue flight from Long Beach, CA to JFK Airport, aisle 10. I’m seated in the middle, next to a beautiful 23-year-old woman from Los Angeles with perfect skin, discussing skin. Me: I was celebrating my birthday with friends from college. We all turn 40 this summer, so we all met up. Her: [gawks] You’re [...]
September 25, 2007
Clint Mauro, on models.com
Yeah, today, we’re going way downmarket (or…up? Depending on where you were before you got here) and I’m posting scantily clad models in their underwear. The music on this is terrible, so, turn the volume way, way down. Via Towleroad, Clint Mauro, photographed for Armani A/X underwear.
September 24, 2007
Ask Koreanish: How Can I Keep Up With All My Friends Blogs?
Question: How can I (or how does one) keep up with all of my friends blogs? Answer: Don’t. Wasn’t that easy? Asking the question might mean that the blogs are not in and of themselves fun enough to keep up with, and that is really the fault of the blogger, first of all. Second, few [...]
September 21, 2007
I’m A Cyborg But That’s OK
This week’s Koreanish Google Image Search header came from searching for images of Rain, the pop star. He’s the one in the amazing blue rabbit mask. This is the trailer.
September 21, 2007
Americans Giving Up Friends, Sex, In Order To Be Online
This is just not okay. From Reuters: The poll, released on Wednesday, found the use of cell phones and the Internet were becoming more and more an essential part of life with 48 percent of respondents agreeing they felt something important was missing without Internet access. More than a quarter of respondents — or 28 [...]
September 21, 2007
Sarabande Books signs up Paul Yoon
This summer, by accident, I got to spend time with two of the up and coming Korean American writers whose work is most exciting to me, in that category and in the category of writing in general. The first is Nami Mun, who turned up at MacDowell while I was there. The second is Paul [...]
