Writing to a wall
I suspected as much, but the host of expatriate English majors are writing up a storm on the internet and the only outlet for their misguided creativity (besides blogger or typepad) is on Korean expat community websites. Here are some highlights I located after only a few minutes at Pusanweb (koreabridge):
A story about making a visa run to Japan that beasts my Osaka blog post all to hell: (sounds like I was lucky to avoid Fukuoka)
http://koreabridge.com/writings/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=88
And then from the man who edits Koreabridge and Pusanweb, a novel-length version of a visa run story, extremely literate and filled with arcana.
http://thormay.net/koreadiary/visarun.html
One has to question the good sense of writing a novel-length story about a fairly mundane event, but I guess there is a perverse Warholian satisfaction to be gained from COMPLETELY describing something.
Scott Liam Soper is difficult to read because he doesn't write well. Technically, he is longer-winded than I am, and he can't resist an awkwardly constructed phrase. However, this little analysis of OLD BOY, the Korean cult hit is worth a gander:
http://koreabridge.com/writings/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=150
This is more like a blog posting, but it's utterly fascinating for so many reasons. First, it details the nightmarish prospect of needing a doctor in a foreign country. Then it shows a tantalizing glimpse of what it must be like to be a Russian woman in Korea. Finally, it asks the question, "why does everyone need to be an asshole?" but one suspects that the writer, in her unfortunate mental state, is actually the antagonist.
http://koreabridge.com/writings/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=147
A fascinatingly vast and depressingly underappreciated wasteland of literary ambition (score: 0)
A story about making a visa run to Japan that beasts my Osaka blog post all to hell: (sounds like I was lucky to avoid Fukuoka)
http://koreabridge.com/writings/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=88
And then from the man who edits Koreabridge and Pusanweb, a novel-length version of a visa run story, extremely literate and filled with arcana.
http://thormay.net/koreadiary/visarun.html
One has to question the good sense of writing a novel-length story about a fairly mundane event, but I guess there is a perverse Warholian satisfaction to be gained from COMPLETELY describing something.
Scott Liam Soper is difficult to read because he doesn't write well. Technically, he is longer-winded than I am, and he can't resist an awkwardly constructed phrase. However, this little analysis of OLD BOY, the Korean cult hit is worth a gander:
http://koreabridge.com/writings/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=150
This is more like a blog posting, but it's utterly fascinating for so many reasons. First, it details the nightmarish prospect of needing a doctor in a foreign country. Then it shows a tantalizing glimpse of what it must be like to be a Russian woman in Korea. Finally, it asks the question, "why does everyone need to be an asshole?" but one suspects that the writer, in her unfortunate mental state, is actually the antagonist.
http://koreabridge.com/writings/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=147
A fascinatingly vast and depressingly underappreciated wasteland of literary ambition (score: 0)
posted by Vivec at 2:54 a.m.
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Happy Birthday you faggot!
http://soli.inav.net/~myorek/holy_grail.html
Ok... I take that back... the interweb has informed me that we are all doomed.
Annual celebrations of life are pointless now that this planet has been unveiled as a cosmic deathsphere!
http://www.raptureready.com/
Who is this coward impugning my heterosexuality and hiding behind the anyonymity of the internet, yet strangely, possessing the nearly accurate date of my birth? I can only think...S2 - but the Monty Python is a puzzling red herring...
maybe Frank...does he know my birthday? I don't know his...hahaha
Why couldn't I study physics? Physics!
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