* Lists are attractive, aren’t they? And ten is a convenient number, makes us feel like it’s enough to cover what it needs to and not quite so overwhelming as, say, 20 or 57. Both of these were shared with me on a social networking site, and this first is presented as answers to questions [...]

. Taxi Ride I’ve been feeling a bit more adventurous about using various editing tools lately.

*   A fair portion of this is cadged from stuff I put on Facebook. Sorry. * “Cats are not domesticated animals,” one of my friends told me, while we were drinking beer one night. I thought about it and decided that I couldn’t disagree at all, and I told him so. ”Maybe that’s why [...]

              *   I like Korean food. It’s great. Sometimes, I want something else.    

… of stuff found lying around in odd corners * I write things on small pieces of paper. They pile up on my desk. Sometimes, I have to put them somewhere. Okay, then, I’ll put some of them here.   

I don’t often enter contests, and in fact last year was the first time I ever tried. The food site ZenKimchi asked people to send them some pictures of Korean food. I sent this one and it was voted the best. True, I sort of campaigned for it, went on FaceBook and asked my friends [...]

. . Last Monday was the third anniversary of this blog, and while I neglected to commemorate it the past (I just didn’t notice the other two times) I think I will do so today.

Why only three? Because it’s 50% more auspicious than two, of course. I’m hoping the text will make this obvious, but as always, the disclaimer: the images on this page are mine and don’t be confused that they in any way refer to the artists I’m talking about. Click the links to see. … 

. . . . These are things I have read or have been reading lately. Just as indicated. . . *  

    yellow pallets .  These photos don’t strictly fall in the category of abstract art (I do know what it means) since they are pictures of actual things that exist. Mostly walls, now that I notice.

I’ve mentioned Groove Korea before in these pages, and I have reason to do so again. It’s because of a recent article about activists sending balloons across the DMZ and into North Korea to deliver items in the hope that some kind of opposition to the regime might eventually occur. Here are some words and [...]

  When North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died a couple of months ago, I remember telling my friends that the demise of any single member of the human family diminishes us all to at least some extent, however miniscule that turns out to be, and that it is nearly always and occasion for sadness. “Nearly [...]

But she grew up elsewhere. She writes.

  This has nothing to do with Jim Morrison. Maybe I’ll talk about him some other time.

Just a couple of things to share this time.

(This is not a restaurant review, so move along if you are looking for that kind of thing. It’s just some words, that’s all, about last Tuesday. No theme, thesis or main idea. You can do that in a blog, you know.) It turns out that Japanese noodles with salmon (여어우동) makes a very nice [...]

. . I’m among those who’ve been disillusioned. Yes, I was aware that it would be impossible for the man to live up to the hype that brought him into office. I guess I had wanted more, and more quickly, and while it’s true I named my cat after him,  in my own defense,

. I think I said before I might show you more pictures of our trip to Japan last month. This one above here is from the window of the departure lounge at Inchon International Airport. As always, click on any images if you want to see them a bit larger.

. . We were on a high promontory, an overlook called Mangkkeut that gave us a view over the water, pretty close to the same time as of day we had arrived 24 hours before, and we could see what was very likely the same ferry boat arriving on its regular schedule and pulling in [...]

. We were staying in a small family-owned inn on one of the hundreds of islands scattered along the southern coast. The staff had left the premises after dinner had been served and the dishes collected and cleaned, and we were alone in the building. It was not yet late, though very dark. We’d found [...]

Every day, or so it seems. As always when I talk about other photographers, I need to make it clear that the pictures on this page are mine, and she deserves no blame for them. Click on the links I’ve provided to see Keely Kernan’s work. She’s a freelance photographer currently residing in Busan. I came across [...]

. It’s three times the distance from there to Tokyo as it is from there to Seoul. The flight from Incheon Airport to Fukuoka takes one hour and five minutes. We spent four nights and five days, around the beginning of December. I took some pictures.   

It’s a subject I keep coming back to, possibly because it’s a somewhat popular pastime over here … My opinions regarding suicide probably don’t correspond with those of a lot of people. However, there is a lot of disagreement from many quarters on the subject. Here are some loosely connected thoughts, just some things that [...]

In which the blogger expands and asserts an addendum to comments provided in the previous post.

Everyone who does this has their own reasons, some that are shared with other people doing the same thing and some reasons that are just their own. Here’s a list of reasons I’ve come up with, and there could be more that I’m forgetting.