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this week roberta fallon and libby rosof’s artblog radio featured jong kyu kim. my husband says i should lay claim to having “scooped” them on jong kyu, as i wrote a feature piece about him a few months ago for the summer 2010 korean quarterly, but artblog had covered his me & you, keanu performance right about the time i stumbled upon his work, when he was in the choir for george ferrandi’s wherever there is water procession.

i was going to mention the piece here anyway, because of its significance as my last feature for KQ for the known future. i will be finishing up my column, creation myth, there as well, in the next two to three issues. we are calling this a “hiatus” for me at KQ, and i have plans to come back at some point with older, more sentient children about whom i can write a column that contains a lot more cursing than the first incarnation. but, in an effort to really use my new childfree hours to focus on fiction, i will be taking an indefinite break from KQ. i am very grateful for my experience there, as it helped me make a few very good friends, introduced me to some of my heroes — literally, heroes — of both literature and textile art, and all with only a minimum side-helping of whiny self-obsessed lunatics.

in recent months — out at korean culture events, and sometimes at home on my computer, i have been really surprised — shocked, even — to realize how many people have been reading my stuff in KQ and who have approached me to say, “oh, it’s YOU!”… it’s nice. thank you, people.

do check in though with jong kyu. i have a feeling that perhaps even a few decades from now, critics may be hailing him as “a cutie”, and indeed, he is a great big cutie. but his work is very thoughtful, and he is sharp. so being a cutie is probably just one incisive little tool in his toolbelt.

also enjoy: no one is leaving, a dance performance by jong kyu and our friend “jonanna” quigley, with music by david lackner (who is also claudia and béla’s music teacher).