I was on the subway with Lime last night — she dropped into town by chance and I just happened to get my malfunctioning phone working and call her before she gave up and left — and we heard the funniest conversation, or rather, one side of it. The young woman sitting beside her said, “… soju dubeyong…” in the most gleeful tone. Lime translated the conversation this way: “Well, if you got yourself a job, you could eat like me. I have a bunch of nice seafood for dinner, and two bottles of soju, and then some coffee, and …
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Addicted to Slingette
What can you do when you’re stuck in your office, too tired to think, and have another class in a few hours? Slingette.
Me?
Sometimes I google my on name to see what other people (say, students) will see when they google my name. It kills me that in Korea, on one of the major music sites, I’m listed under “Indie Rock/Modern Rock”. It’s not surprising, since that’s the only kind of band I’ve played with here long, but I’d have never expected that. Would be nice to get “jazz” or “avant garde” added to that sometime while I still live here…
Kim Jong Il declares Japanese Tsunami an “Act of War”
A tsunami warning in Japan was issued after major quake in the ocean, and Kim Jong Il, always quick on the draw with his dialectic, has spoken out against the Sea of Japan. The Japan, he’s a bery bad, and he making the colonies like a Monopoli game, and him not equipped to withstanding my it’s a Juche. This it’s a tsunami it’s an act of American Aggression through the flunkyist crony of the Japan. He making is Sea of Korea make Sea pushing and crush the Free land of Joseon [North Korea]. Apparently Kim was then dragged away, while …
Curse the Cursive
Charles’ post on the slow death of cursive script brought back my own memories of remedial handwriting exercises. My teacher, Mrs. Bremner, discovered when I was in, oh, sixth grade that I was printing everything. So, since I was also completing all assignments in half the time it took anyone else in my class, she started assigning my handwriting practice. I couldn’t understand why print wasn’t good enough, and so I did the exercises with the same dedication with which one completes punishments consisting of the repeated writing of lines. If s looks like this, or like that, what does …
Oxygen Feed in Hotel?
One of the feeds I’ve re-subbed to is the Asian Sex Gazette, a newsfeed on sexual culture issues in Asia. Anyway, this rather fluffy article attracted my attention not for the promise of “surefire ways to lure the ladies” but the description of a pipe into the room, pumping pure oxygen for you to inhale and apply to your skin. You know, I really hope that some idiot doesn’t light up a cigarette in bed while his girlfriend has the oxygen pipe open, because, well, that could be really bad. Sounds like the opening scene in a cyberpunk novel or …
‘Uncovered Meat’???
So, what I think is causing pressure on the sane, sensible Muslims of the world is when asshead clerics say things like women who are not covered in a headscarf are “like uncovered meat”. Female Muslims have been among the most vocal in calling for the cleric’s resignation over references in his sermon to women being soldiers of Satan who were responsible for 90 percent of adultery. “In due course, I will take the necessary decision that will lift the pressures that have been placed on our Australian Muslim community and that which will benefit all Australians,” said al-Hilali, who …
BigHominid on… crapping’ your pants.
BigHominid linked to someone who noted that crapping one’s pants in public is a universal crisis, one that transcends all human boundaries. Actually, it reminds me of something I realized, I think, in late elementary school. A teacher had walked out of the bathrooms of our little school house, and whether it was his or not, there was a big poo left behind in one of the toilet stalls. It was then that I realized: teachers go to the toilet and take stinky dumps, just like anyone else. Priests do it. Nuns do it. Parents. Pretty girls do it. Ugly …
I Love Geeks
I studied electronic music in University, but never devoted much time to the fascinating subject. But I am glad that some people are still fiddling and messing around with it, in new and weird ways. Like the guy on YouTube who’s experimenting with Max/MSP to use water as a control device for music: The guy’s webpage is here.
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Good narration of this spooky Robert Service poem linked over at Ruminations in Korea. Click here to check it out. It certainly put me back in the drafting mood for my own spooky, nasty arctic story.