Christopher Hitchens has a wonderful little piece about diets and dieting in the Mirror. Here’s a taste: THERE’S an old conundrum, familiar to those who have viewed the clientele of health-food restaurants. Did these people always look so pale and ill and scrawny and pustular? Or was it the nut cutlets and prune juice and special grains that made them that way? In other words, which came first, the chicken or the egg – and which one would you be better advised to drop from your own intake? The question is an important one because, if people stop asking it, …
Month: September 2003
The Plumbing
Okay, I never had to do that before. Some of this is gross. If you have a weak stomach, or don’t want to be disgusted, please just skip this post and read about something else.
Hadden On Film
UPDATE (4 April 2015): The video mentioned in the post lives on Flickr now. IT still has no audio: my first digital camera didn’t have a microphone, much to my regret. But anyway, here’s Hadden, a friend who I discovered not long ago passed away a while back: I still miss him. ORIGINAL POST: Okay, it’s a silent film, but you can actually see a lot of his personality in it. I’m actually amazed about how much of peoples’ personalities actually comes across in a silent film, and in a surprise situation, such as when they are being filmed and …
Strange Encounters in Korea… When An Ajeoshi Goes Too Far
::A Geek In Korea:: Crunky!: High-Brow / Low-Brow The link above is to a post on the blog of another foreigner living in Korea. It’s about a chance encounter he had with a drunk Korean man (a stranger, mind you) who tried to get his hands onto the poster’s genitals. Now, I must say, some male-male touching in Korea that’s seen as normal among Koreans and NOT among foreigners, I am comfortable with. For example, when I was depressed after watching a couple of documentaries about the Jeju Island massacres, and my (male Korean) friend grabbed my hand and squeezed …
Rain and Winds…
Min Jung left about 4pm because I got sick. I don’t know why, it was probably just repeated lack of sleep. I started to sneeze a lot, and looked like hell, so she said I should just sleep and then went off to meet another friend before returning to Iksan. (I think that’s what her SMS message said.) And I slept. It’s an index of how tired and sick I was feeling that I didn’t do the dishes immediately. And now I have woken to find that the water is not working in the building. I don’t know why, but …