Category Archives: literature

At Last! Time Travel Done Right!

This gallery contains 1 photo.

It was purely on a whim that I started watching Nine: Nine Time Travels (나인: 아홉번의 시간여행), and all I can say it YES! As in, FINALLY! — a story that spends most of its time broaching topics near and dear to … Continue reading

More Galleries | 8 Comments

Liebster Award!

This gallery contains 1 photo.

So I just got through designating my own set of arbitrary awards for “Must See” KDrama  when I got this lovely message from Maybee at dramababble telling me that she had nominated me for a Liebster Award. Please check out her fantastic … Continue reading

More Galleries | 13 Comments

Series or Feature Film? Hwang Jin Yi and Shin Yun Bok, a Case Study.

This gallery contains 4 photos.

who tells the better story? – who tells the story better? I recently accomplished a long-standing goal to watch the film versions of stories about two artistic geniuses of the Joseon era whose lives are dramatized in the television series … Continue reading

More Galleries | 2 Comments

Playing Favorites… the KDrama and Film ‘Must See’ List

This gallery contains 7 photos.

Awards seasons are long over, yet I thought I might take a moment to tip the nib of my (virtual) pen to those dramas and feature films to which I have been awarding my highest rating, three stars.  If you … Continue reading

More Galleries | 2 Comments

Curio in KDramaland… (or, Through the Sageuk Lens)

This gallery contains 14 photos.

I am not sure how I feel about publishing this list — yet here it is typed and formatted and ready to go, fairly champing at the bit wanting to be let out of the draft pile to see the … Continue reading

More Galleries | 31 Comments

That Winter, the Wind Blows (그 겨울, 바람이 분다)

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Betsy Hp over at Creating Volumes posed a curious question in her recent notes about That Winter, the Wind Blows (그 겨울, 바람이 분다), a drama that follows the vicissitudes of Oh Soo’s oh-so-complicated life. Our hero is a con-man — … Continue reading

More Galleries | 21 Comments

Island in the stream…

This gallery contains 7 photos.

Last July I happened upon I know-not-what Korean Drama on hulu and I could not take my eyes off the 16-episode tale so woeful that it wrung from me every last tear my lacrimal glands could produce, leaving me quite … Continue reading

More Galleries | 7 Comments

The Many Names of Astrid Farnsworth

One of the funniest conceits in Fringe is the excellent Mad Scientist Walter Bishop’s plethora of reinventions and variations of Agent Farnsworth’s name. Some people think it’s because Walter cannot remember Astrid’s name. I, however, suspect that this little quirk is a … Continue reading

More Galleries | Leave a comment

Render Unto Caesar: A Most Misunderstood New Testament Passage

by Jeffrey F. Barr I. INTRODUCTION Christians have traditionally interpreted the famous passage “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God, the things that are God’s,” to mean that Jesus endorsed paying taxes. This view was … Continue reading

More Galleries | Leave a comment

A good day…

… begins with a dream and ends with an idea… [To listen, press the SPACE BAR to start and stop video playback] Πάτερ_ἡμῶν

More Galleries | Leave a comment