You usually hear him before you see him; his voice, like a fisherman’s net, is thrown well-wide of his immediate listening audience. He casts out upon any and all in his vicinity and then, with a slight of hand, hauls the hapless multitude in towards his incessant monologue. Unfortunately, the monologue is usually not immediately [...]
Archive for July, 2008
The American Renaissance Man
Posted in Rant, tagged American Renaissance Man, Backpacking, Central America, Dominican Repbulic, Expats, Orphanage, South Korea on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New Meaning of Safe
Posted in South Korea, tagged travel on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Safety is a severely underrated blessing; I am only coming to really understand this now, but not, as you might expect, by suddenly encountering a hostile or crime-ridden society in South Korea. Quite the contrary, in fact. I am overwhelmed by the sense of safety here; theft is more rare than Korean vegetarian cuisine. Colleen [...]
Mapmaking
Posted in South Korea, tagged maps, South Korea on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was seven or eight years old when my parents finally reset my bicycle boundaries so that I was confined only by town limits. The first thing my friend and I tried to do was get lost.
The vulnerability and fear that come with ‘being lost’ can quickly undergo a transformation by simply welcoming the unknown [...]
A. Ho’s an A. Ho
Posted in Rant, tagged parking fines, Parking officers, Parking Services, parking tickets, Rant, Toronto on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my opinion parking officers are the tax collectors of our modern time; they are inescapable, remorseless, and almost universally self-profiting. I feel that if Jesus were to walk the length and breadth of Spadina Ave., he would very quickly overturn the card-slot meters and send this brood of vipers slithering, venom-less, back to their [...]
The blogmaster extraordinaire?
Posted in Miscellaneous on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In some ways, I’m a little surprised I’m doing this. I’m far too conscious a writer to make this blogging process quick and easy. But I need a forum in which to type words onto page, to freeze my thoughts, to chart a path. Without a forum, any forum, it simply doesn’t happen.
I’m currently two years out [...]
