scraps

Looking at Jonathan Morse's cool photography site (which you should all visit forthwith, and if you do I'll save you some groaner o...

Why have I been such a bad blogger? Because I’ve been on Staycation here in Seoul. Been sleeping in late, studying Korean, and wandering abo...

Wow Yvonne, the rare blogger at bulgogi (and, of course, my fiancee) found a slide-show of pictures of Daejeon in 1951 , after the Civil War...

So my old kit lens would take a shot like this (when fully backed out) My new lens does this: when fully backed out.. but that still doesn...

Namsan is changing, as it does. The bright blossom colors from this day have gone away. Still, the greenosity is epic. this compares to thi...

Being pretty busy, I contrived to miss most of Hi-Seoul, the annual festival of culture, but last weekend ADAM and I did take a spin around ...

It isn't Just Fan Death that can kill you around these parts, mister! I have to hat-tip the BKF for giving me a clue of this. We were wa...

Walking up the hill behind BPU2 to get to Namsan Park I first come across this little shrine, tucked between two horizontal trails across th...

ME AND IMMIGRATION Today is my weekly day off and it started well, lolling about in bed and IMing The Reprobate, the OAF, and MAF at the sam...

So.. as I walked home over Namsan yesterday I noticed that small, almost infinitesimal bits of rambunctious Spring were starting to break ou...

A letter from semi-prestigious magazine: Dear Charles, Congratulations on your new position. Even though I work on Japan, I have a special i...

AS NOTED AT SOUTH-CENTRAL "ZOOLAND" By the Tragic Monkey...

Amazing how much you can get done when your internet is pulled. One of the "bad" things about moving apts is that I got reamed fo...