I played basketball for three hours last night. I haven't owned anything resembling athletic footwear since grade nine, so I played in Chucks. My knees are sore as hell. I'm going to buy a pair of basketball shoes after I get paid on Tuesday. Koreans are generally pretty quick, but they're small, don't know how to make defensive rotations, and aren't very good shooters. I think that was the first time I'd played a game with adults, so I was pretty terrible. We won all but one game against the Korean teams, but the one we lost was the last game and we were tired as hell and they hadn't played yet. We're planning on playing two or three times a week after work, as the courts in Anyang's Central Park are lit until midnight. Really nice courts, too, although our rim was missing a bolt and had to be readjusted frequently.

I can't get enough of this guy's comics. The second strip is especially great this week.



Matthew Herbert's "Scale" album is really, really, really good.