Amusements

A few random amusements for you, before I toddle off to get some real work done:



A terrible audio track that my friend Jack posted that WILL make you laugh.
Sunset Grill is a webcomic made by my friend Kat.
Anyone notice that Obama mentioned non-believers [...]

골프 영어 학원?

(Trans. “Golf English Cram School”?)
It could have happened.

Responding to protests, the Ladies Professional Golf Assn. announced Friday that it would back down on suspending golfers who do not speak adequate English, reversing a controversial decision that had thrown the organization smack into the nation’s long-running culture wars.
The LPGA Tour had announced last month that it [...]

빠삐코 + 놈놈놈 = 빠삐놈 (And an Update on the Starcraft Pansori, with Video)

Note: I’ve made a (substantial) couple of edits and additions to this post since it first went up. Those resulting from comments — changes — are clearly marked as updates, but those that are additions of information or observation aren’t, since it reduces readability to have a bunch of EDIT marks throughout. Anyway, apologies to [...]

I Like Turtles

Do yourself a favor.
When the world is annoying you, go to Youtube and search the phrase I used on for the header of this post: “I like turtles” — that should be good for at least twenty minutes of fun.

Good Grief!

Thanks to Boing-Boing, I know that:

Jimi Hendrix made a Sex Tape. And now someone else is releasing it.
Psychopaths are great correspondents. (Among others.)
Canadian copyright is about to go nuts. (Hardly a surprise: the USA is exported n even-more-draconian form of copyright law to Korea, and Canada’s much more of a USA-wannabe.)

As someone commented — who [...]

What in the World?!?

So I was looking around for Hwang Sin Hae videos on Youtube, and found this bizarre Korean remake of that song Venus, by Shocking Blue. (I think of it as “by Bananarama” but that just shows my age and ignorance.) What the hell is this from?
Video pasted in below for you non-LJers.

Why Can’t Korean Pop Culture Be This Bizarre?

I like the guy, and his writing, but the_flea_king is evil. Not as evil as some people, but still evil, for having done this to me (LJers, just click here instead, and then, if you’re still note satisfied, here):

UPDATE: slightly less odd, but still bizarre, video for the same song:

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