Hello, folks in my Dream game!

Due to a health concern (of the probably not serious but definitely needs to be looked at ASAP variety), game tonight is cancelled. Many apologies; I'll try not to let this happen again.

Game will resume as usual next week, assuming I don't get hit by a truck.

Under the leadership of our great president, the United States has undergone changes that are, indeed, visionary in nature. Our founding fathers drew upon the works of the great philosophers, so too has our president drawn most strongly on one of the oldest and most respected of human principles: loyalty ( Read more... )

So, about six months ago, Holly and I found ourselves at the Seoul premiere of Star Wars, Episode 3, which came a week after the rest of you lucky bastards got to see it ( Read more... )

It has no dial tone. It likewise lacks busy signals, line noise, access to various recordings, and certainly voices. Bereft of life, it rests in peace: our telephone is kerbusted ( Read more... )

So, it seems according to a recent poll (conducted by whom, I sadly do not remember) that around 50% of the country now considers the Bush administration to be "a failure." As someone who left the country for a year partly out of a desire to see something beyond a culture with which I no longer felt any compelling connection, it's damned hard not ( Read more... )

It seems like every writer who travels abroad has a few choice words to say about his or her home country upon returning to it and seeing it, as it were, with new eyes (or, at least, with eyes that have been looking at something ELSE for an extended period of time). This is, I suppose, pretty much inevitable: the changes and differences one becomes ( Read more... )

Give a life a shake, and it's amazing how much dust will fall out. As I write this, Holly and I sit in an appartment piled with boxes and powdered wiht sneeze-inducing dust particles that would never otherwise have seen the light of day. Our last couple of weeks in Korea have been gray, as if the country were attempting, perhaps kindly, to remind ( Read more... )

I'll back it against ludefisk. I'd probably back it for title of "foulest food eaten by mankind." And I have no idea what it is called ( Read more... )

If 9/11 has become a trigger for overweaning flag-waving around the United States, its current equivalent in Korea is Dokdo ( Read more... )

Am I alone in remembering Grimm's fairy tales as being a book of light, relatively sanitized, never very sinister stories that were most distinctly for children ( Read more... )