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Comment on Happy Birthday in Korea… by gordsellar

gordsellar — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:52:27 +0000

In reply to Sandra L Dodd. Thanks, I appreciate your comment! Now that I have some workable music notation software, I'm tempted to just write out the music on a staff, to make the comparison easier to follow. Maybe sometime. In any case, I'm glad this post was helpful to you.

Comment on Happy Birthday in Korea… by Sandra L Dodd

Sandra L Dodd — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:33:03 +0000

I’ve watched Korean dramas for over ten years, and saw MANY happy-birthday scenes. Your explorarion of “what the heck!?” is helpful. Claude AI found it for me, and I was glad to see it.

Comment on Readings, May/June 2026 by gordsellar

gordsellar — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:33:32 +0000

In reply to Russ Smith. Ooops, I'm assuming it's the Children of Time that you're referring to? (I can't find a Children of Light, and Children of Time seems to be one of his more famous series.)

Comment on Readings, May/June 2026 by gordsellar

gordsellar — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:40:16 +0000

In reply to Russ Smith. Hi Russ! If We Cannot Go At the Speed of Light is definitely worth checking out. Children of Light sounds good, I guess I'll check that out, along with that podcast! Thanks for the recommendation!

Comment on Readings, May/June 2026 by Russ Smith

Russ Smith — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:05:01 +0000

You had me at ‘Omelas’!
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is one of my favourite short stories, alongside your own Prodigal of course (I may have mentioned this before…).
I will definitely be giving If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light a read after your review.
I’m a bit of an Adrian Tchaikovsky fan. His Children of Light trilogy is wonderful, a very original sci-fi which goes in a direction you will not expect. I also loved his City of Last Chances book and am currently reading the sequel. In this he manages to juggle a very large diverse cast very well and again, it’s highly original but in the Fantasy genre.
His writing is clever, sharp and humorous I think. He is also the co-host of a mostly book-based podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/starship-alexandria/id1806388787
He and his co-host recently reviewed Piranesi on there.

Comment on Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Cantos LXXII and LXXIII (“The Fascist Cantos”) by gordsellar

gordsellar — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:34:30 +0000

In reply to David Kummer. Thanks David! I do hope to get back to the series, at some point, I've just been incredibly busy lately. (Like, for years now.) But maybe this is the year I get back to it!

Comment on Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Cantos LXXII and LXXIII (“The Fascist Cantos”) by David Kummer

David Kummer — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:02:50 +0000

Really enjoyed this (and your series overall.) I’m just now working my way through some of the Cantos. I hope you’ll pick back up with the Pisan Cantos; those are especially fascinating to me!

Comment on A Short History of the Donghak Peasant Revolution by Soonchul Shin and Jinyoung Lee by gordsellar

gordsellar — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:23:59 +0000

In reply to Ana Roldan. No worries, and thanks for your comment!

Comment on A Short History of the Donghak Peasant Revolution by Soonchul Shin and Jinyoung Lee by Ana Roldan

Ana Roldan — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:11:20 +0000

Because I was watching a korean TVseries “The Nokdu Flower” and wanting to know more about the peasant raise I ended up reading this. Thank U!!

Comment on Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 20 by gordsellar

gordsellar — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:08:57 +0000

In reply to Ray.

Thanks Ray! I have to give some of the credit to the game itself, which itself is built to deliver new surprises at (almost) every turn, but I will also admit some of it is just my own tendency toward escalating unintended side-effects of sensible actions.

Session 21 is coming soon, as well as a special inter-session post that ties up a couple of loose ends, and dangles a few new ones, as we’re doing a time-jump forward in Session 22. (Also, we’re pausing the game at that point, because one of our players will be on an extended trip.)