I gotta say, it's been a few years since I've been active in kpop, but sometimes it crops up in the strangest places. The international political conflict between Taiwan and China, for instance, centering around 16-year-old kpop star Tzuyu of JYP group TWICE. She's Taiwanese, but China refuses to recognize that as a nationality, and her innocently ( Read more... )

US Men's National Team: Hockey! Tomorrow! I don't even care who I get autographs from, but I'll be there for my bag of swag. And possibly to launch myself at David Backes. I mean, there are a ton of players I care about at this thing, but there's just something about David Backes and his perfection and his plaid suits... Hold me back ( Read more... )

Whoa, you guys.

Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music Video Sensation
Beneath the catchy dance beat and hilarious scenes of Seoul's poshest neighborhood, there might be a subtle message about wealth, class, and value in South Korean society.

Park Jaesang is an unlikely poster boy for South Korea's youth- ( Read more... )

Had a great time at the Caps FanFest yesterday with _la_belle_fille and celerywench and her little sister. Getting to watch the prospect dev camp final scrimmage was fun too but made me miss hockey so fucking much. Ugh, summerSlowly going out of my mind today. No sports. No news. No new fic. I can't make myself focus long enough to read a book or watch a movie ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes when I want to pimp my fandoms, I write up these epic posts with badass coding and pics and links and coherency and shit? (No, wait, there's never coherency.)

Yeah, not this time.


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Extreme displeasure at Delicious fiasco aside (way to remove every useful feature), I'm really entertained and sort of mistily proud of how quickly and broadly fandom mobilizes. The most popular alternative at the moment seems to be Pinboard, which is ideal in many ways and yet not others, so users have gotten together to make a list things they'd ( Read more... )

You can tell the entire kpop portion of my flist has left LJ when 5jib is out and there's not a single post about it. To be honest, I totally failed to pay attention too and only found about the album post-release ( Read more... )

Guess what trailer is out?! ShiHae's Taiwanese drama version of Skip Beat trailer is out!

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I had a rage-filled day! Some fandom things (antis, please gtfo) and then this, which is what dominated my day, really ( Read more... )

Mei, an hour ago:
Okay, so my iPod might be possessed. It keeps turning on by itself every few mins, even after I repeatedly turn it off. Should I be concerned?

Forty-five minutes ago:
Now it's progressed to turning itself on and off every few seconds. iPod, IS THERE SOMETHING YOU'RE TRYING TO TELL ME? I don't know Morse!

Thirty minutes ago: ( Read more... )