… is the name of the last movie I saw (imdb | excellent review). It was a title I’d run across before but never happened to pick for watching, but Lime and I are getting to the point where we’ve seen many of the films we wanted to see at our regular DVD-room house, so we asked the girl running the front desk whether it was a good movie. She replied, enthusiastically, that it is, in her opinion, the best Korean movie ever, and that it was sad that it couldn’t have gotten a little more funding so that it …
Month: February 2005
Nerd? Me?
Here’s a snippet from a phone conversation I had in the taxi home tonight: Me: What are you doing, honey?Lime: E.R. DVD 보고 있어요. (I’m watching a DVD of [the TV show] E.R.)…Me: I just want to warn you, honey. I hope you’re not planning on me for Dr. Green. Lime: Actually, Dr. Green reminds you of… remind me of…Me: I remind you of Dr. Green?Lime: Yes, he reminds me of… Dr. Green reminds me of you. Me: Uh-huh… why?Lime: He’s a nerd. Ah well, since it’s coming from an even bigger nerd than me, I’ll take it as a …
Reasons to Read The Flying Yangban
Not the least of them is that when you hear someone from Seoul talking about the 피맛골, you can ask if they know what that means. When they say blood-flavoured alley, you can tell them with a smile that it ain’t so. Yes, this really happened, and the barmaids were quite pleased to discover what it means. Then they asked me how Toronto got its name, and I had to admit I didn’t know at all. I managed to find this explanation of that little bit of trivia, by the way: Toronto was named after the Huron Indian word for …
Old Poll. New Poll. Vote.
People are weird. In my last poll, the fictional characters they wanted to eat most were Napoleon, the pig from Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, and Ellen Brody, the cop’s wife from the movie Jaws. These results each got 21% of the total votes. If you want to see the full results, check out the extended section by clicking the link below, and scrolling down a little after the new page loads… The new poll should be up by the time you see this, is slightly more serious, and you can vote in the usual way.
Eat a Printout
This is one of the weirdest food/tech combinations I’ve ever heard of…