One of my favourite poems from a listen to sense can be had here. It’s Gertrude Stein doing her, ’ If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso’ bit. If I told him would he like it? Would I…

Went to the Hongdae club day (night) with my friend last night. Was a lot of fun. Haven’t been out dancing in some time, same with staying out all night. The crowds were pretty groovy. Plenty of whiteys too. Bumped…

I tooled on over to Osan today. Someone once remarked that the downtown of every city in this country looks the same, and I tend to agree. But two things that were different here are—American muscle; brash and visceral. That…

I’ve always been down for doing something different so yesterday when a dear friend gave me the opportunity to take in a catholic church service, I readily took it. The exteriors of churches here are fairly indistinctive compared to architecture…

Well how about this: Sex Matters to Women Who Say It Doesn’t: Study, from the digital chosun ilbo. There are several interesting points in there, but I think this one is worth quoting; When asked if prostitutes are needed to…

It felt like it had been a long night and although the sun was distant it shone golden in reflections across the high-rises. After this many hours I still didn’t know how I felt about her now. I purposefully hadn’t…

Yesterday I went down to Chungju to check out the ho. It’s about what you’d expect of a large hand-made ho. It soon became clear that this kind of day outing is what young people are not much into—it was…

Do you ever get to the end of a day and wish like hell that you’d pushed yourself through some gruelling ordeal of physical exercise? That you were raw and driven by an enormous adrenal gland that just won’t quit.…

“Hey buddy, are there any more aboretums around here?” One day this week when I went to work I found that all the other teachers had been replaced by robots. And I don’t mean in any predictably subtle way either—fully…

There was something of a request for more autumnal images. So here. Went and hung out at a friend’s pad in ditchy-dong in seoul and watched ‘serial daters’ on the MTV channel. It was just what I needed. There is…