Category Archives: Koreanish
Fanboy
Over at the Morning News, my new essay “Fanboy” is up. The artwork here is a beautiful illustration commissioned from an artist by the name of Katie Turner. This is an essay that began about a year ago in a comic … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, Koreanish, letters from away, politics, travel
My Glee Madonna Episode Nationals in New York Fantasy League Fan Mix.
I’m not much of a musical theater person. I do not normally love live theater, either. I apparently like production values, though, as all the musicals I do love are films. Elvis musicals, for example, I have loved since I … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, Koreanish, television
On Writing This Blog As An Unfinished Book
When Kyle Minor at HTMLGiant wrote about reading this blog as a book two weeks ago, I decided to do a little of it myself to see what I could see. What I saw, interestingly, was not what I thought … Continue reading
Filed under animal savagery, apocalypse, author's own, Koreanish
On Reading This Blog As An Unfinished Book
For those arriving from Kyle Minor’s post at HTMLGiant on how to read this blog as a book that hasn’t been finished yet, page 1 is here. If you’d like to read it front to back, that is, instead of … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, Koreanish
Wear Purple Day
This morning I woke up and put on a purple v-neck t-shirt, in remembrance of Tyler Clementi, Seth Walsh, Justin Aaberg, Raymond Chase, Asher Brown, Billy Lucas, Zach Harrington and GLBT teens everywhere who took their lives out of fear. This … Continue reading
Filed under current events, GLBT, Korean America, Korean American, Koreanish, politics
Banksy, the Simpsons and the DPRK
Banksy’s Simpson credits have made a bit of a splash because he’s an art sensation, but watching it I understood he meant to dramatize the role inexpensive North Korean animation labor plays in the creation of much of what we … Continue reading
Character Flaw
Yesterday I looked in on a Twitter chat about character flaws that seemed to circle around these statements: “flaws! Yes! Characters have them! What about addiction?” and the whole thing looked just a bit too much like the reason people … Continue reading
Filed under comics, fiction, fiction prompts, Koreanish, writers, writing, writing exercises
Daeji Bulgogi Tacos
A few weeks back I was having friends over for my birthday. I wanted to try making some Korean tacos LA-Kogi-BBQ-truck-style, which is to say, inspired by them—they ARE the masters. So I sat and read their online menu and … Continue reading
Learning to Love Long Duk Dong
When Long Duck Dong appears for the first time during Sixteen Candles, a gong rings, and if you’re Asian, as you see his face swing down over the bunk bed and the halo of black hair appear around his head, … Continue reading
Filed under film, Koreanish, political art
Birthday
1. August 21st, 1967, South Kingston, Rhode Island. A home economics teacher from Maine named Jane and a URI oceanography student named Chuck (his American name) welcome their first son into the world. Chuck names him Alexander, for Alexander the … Continue reading
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