“Your late twenties are all about coming to terms with your own mediocrity.” So said my minutely older friend a few months ago, before resigning his body to the lulling heat of the green-tea bath, sliding out of sight beneath the water’s shimmering, yellow-green surface. I wanted to object, to muster a bold retort. I [...]
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On Aging (and latent notions of heroism)
Posted in Miscellaneous, South Korea, tagged Aging, Alan Bradley, Bathhouse, Cohen Brothers, Donatello, ESL, Growing Old, Hagwon, Jjimjilbang, Korea, Korean Bath, Lance Armstrong, neurosis, Ninja Turtles, South Korea, Steven Spielberg, teaching ESL, underachievement on March 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
In Defense of Lamp Posts (because they need defending)
Posted in Miscellaneous, Photography, tagged C.S. Lewis., Lamp Post, light pollution, Photography, The Lion the Witch and the Wordrobe on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After having inhabited the Land of Narnia for about two years of my childhood, it seems I cannot pass a lamp post by without framing it in my camera lens. Street lights are one thing, ever-present in their monotony, like gray-clad sentinels positioned by regimen at precise intervals. There is an aesthetic in that, to [...]
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 [...]
