This is for you geeks out there who love Carl Sagan. (Found via a Youtube video somewhere on the blog of my crit groupmate/friend Chris Kammerud, whose blog I finally got around to trawling through for tasty links… of which there are a bunch, so it’s worth a visit; I guarantee that it will rather […]
Miss Jiwaku and I happened to be around a TV when some woman was talking onscreen about the ridiculously-named Bucheon World Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo going on in Bucheon right now. The woman talking didn’t look Korean (she seemed more Southeast Asian, to me, but I’m told she is Japanese), but she was speaking in Korean. […]
Really, it is. Nobody likes M. Night Shyamalan… … well, except whoever keeps giving him money to make crap. Oh, wait, that’s us, isn’t it? Argh! Can we all just not go to his next movie? You think that might kill the career of the walking dead?
While it doesn’t surprise me to see a dancing stormtrooper video from Japan: … I must say I was surprised to see such a thing from Korea: and indeed there’s a whole channel of dancing Stormtrooper vids from Seoul. Anyone know who these people are?
Those who remember my post English Made Difficult, about a crazy series of English textbooks (widely) used in Korea during the 1970s will enjoy the look at this ridiculously useless travel phrasebook for visitors to Korea that looks almost as if it is from the same publisher and author. Check it out. (And a tip […]