"until the memory dies / a forever life / is an infinite lie / hung wide"

[larryhammer]

The Top 10 differences between white terrorists and other terrorists. (via)

A dissection of "Gangam Style" for Americans. (via)

"Expecting a Train in Poetry" by Ren Xianqing.

---L.

Comments

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

Re: "Gangnam Style," see also (http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2012/08/why-psys-gangnam-stle-style-went-american-style-and-is-the-apt-pupil-of-k-pop.html). (Shorter: it's a fractured mirror of American pop, so of course some Americans are fascinated.)

[larryhammer]

That matches my impression of it -- the right mix of familiar and different and doofy-dancin' hot chicks to catch American attentions.

---L.