I expected Han Solo or maybe Han Solo, but look what the Infinitely Wise Internet says: You are Rhett Butler. Dark and brooding, you willdo anything for the woman you love. You areextremely sexy and know how to make a girl feellike a woman. Which Sexy Rogue Are You? brought to you by Quizilla Uh, okay. Sure, that’s cool…

Oh yes, my friends. I’ve reached post number seven-hundred, and I could write about so many things. I could write about my new superpowers. I could write about thw two Korean movies I’ve seen in the last week. (Or is it three?) I could write about the inflatable stick-plastic ball in my flat that is going to help me rehabilitate my back. I could write about the Greg Egan book I am reading, or my plans for the week. Or about the talk I had with my friend Heather today, or the taste of Irish whiskey I had last night. …

Budaechigae has been kind enough to post a nice collation of recent posts by bloggers in English in Korea. I’m not in the list, but I won’t whine. Much.

I’ve peered over there a few times before, and been impressed, but been to lazy to blog this site before. But today, when I had a look, I was pleasantly surprised. Someone else who feels how I do about people here, to be honest, the vast majority of waeguk-in (foreigners) I meet in Korea are damaged, ranting weirdos, with whom I’m happy to have minimal interaction. and yet engages with the place deeply enough to actually have intelligent, interestng things to say about Korea. You should go check out Emptybottle.org now. I mean, while you’re killing time looking at my …

You belong somewhere out in the world, exploringand learning and spreading the knowledge thatyou find. When you love, that love will joinyou in your quest and believe as you do in aworld of spiritual energy that is stronger thananything humanity could normally even conceive,although you may be able to. Council those youencounter, give them your wisdom, and stay trueto yourself. Where do you belong?(ANIME IMAGES) brought to you by Quizilla Found on Onyxlynxx’s Journal.

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… but happiness can be when you find yourself in bar in a strange country hollering out cheers in the local language and dancing with some hilarious tubby local girl who’s come up and grabbed you because it’s her big song, and when you look about and see the only other couple dancing in the bar is Thai and Kathleen and you holler attack, she joins you at full strength in a tango-styled joust-assault on them, clasped hands slamming into the couple’s sides… which is responded to with another attack in kind, until it all dissipates into silly laughter and …

Last week, I was laughing at Shawn being so annoyed… some of his perky young sophomore students, when leaving his classroom, saw me hanging around, waiting for him to finish up so I could give him back his tape machine. These girls stopped and went, “Oooh!” I said, “What?” “You is handsome man!” they said. One of them expanded upon this: “You look is like the Justin Timberlake!” she said, and winked, giving me the thumbs-up. Now, when I tell the story, I claim that I replied with a wicked tone, “And you look like Janet Jackson, baby, come on …

This is my desktop. The pic’s a balloon animal John made for Koko on her birthday. Gotta get those birthday pics uploaded soon. But anyway, I like this shot, the cheerful sweetness and all that.