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| Friday, July 25th, 2008 | | 10:38 pm |
Summertime Blues in Korea... Again... Same shit, different summer. The weather turns to shit: It's either suffocatingly hot and humid, or pissing down torrential rain, or suffocatingly hot and humid while pissing down torrential rain. Summer vacation is a misnomer: Hey, kids! Happy summer to YOU! What? You think you can go to the beach, the park or pool with your friends and hang out and be KIDS? HAR HAR! This is KO-RE-AAA, you little bastards! We're gonna stick your asses in EXTRA LONG CLASSES/SCHOOL CAMPS all summer long, with even worse preparation on the part of Korean staff than during the rest of the year! Pay up, mom and dad! Gotta keep up wit' da Parks (Why, certainly! We're sending our kids to English, Math and Science academies all summer! Aren't you?)... And, for my 3rd straight Korean summer, I'm entertaining notions of G'ingTFO as soon as this contract is up. Turkey or Portugal seem amusing destinations... Expect little but hate-filled rants until mid-September when I take a 10 day vacation and cool off. A fun aside: You may or may not be aware of a certain little territorial dispute between Korea and Japan over a handful of tiny, barren, birdshit-covered rocks in the middle of nowhere. But, it might be interesting to compare the tone of Japanese and Korean newspaper editorials on the matter. | | Saturday, July 5th, 2008 | | 6:34 pm |
Happy 232nd, America! | | Monday, June 30th, 2008 | | 1:33 pm |
O, Japan...Tokyo police said 200-300 death threats appeared on Internet message boards since 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato went on a killing spree on June 8 in the popular Akihabara district, Kyodo News and the Sankei Shimbun said.
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Tokyo police earlier this week sent a 16-year-old girl to a family court for posting messages on the Internet threatening to kill people in Tokyo's Shibuya district, where young people flock.
"I'll kill them all and I'll die too," the girl said in one message sent from a cellphone to a bulletin board, as quoted by a police spokesman.
"I adore suspect Kato," she wrote, adding: "You're so cool, Mr Kato."
The girl, whose name was withheld as she is a minor, posted a total of 28 messages two days after the Akihabara killing, according to police.Umm... I'm strangely aroused by this chick... Is that wrong? Current Music: DevilDriver - Clouds Over California | | Saturday, June 28th, 2008 | | 3:16 pm |
Life has taken a definite turn for the surreal.
Current Music: stuff I don't like, but is surprisingly easy to sleep to | | Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 | | 10:03 am |
| | Saturday, June 21st, 2008 | | 2:41 pm |
People who still know how to rock. HAIL SATAN!!! I love the spaciness of this. And the idea of a black hole swallowing up the world has an oddly calming effect on me. Man attacked bus, tried to rob 7-Eleven, stripped, fought dog and withstood Taser. ...And smashed through a glass door. Naked. Fucking hard-core. Makes last night's breathalyzer checkpoint shenanigans seem like child's play in comparison. PS: I'm turning 30 in a few days, so I figure it's time to have a mid-life crisis. Any suggestions? | | Sunday, June 15th, 2008 | | 5:54 pm |
| | Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | | 2:33 am |
I was just wondering... How many of you poor souls back in the states are currently dying from MAD COW DISEEEEEEEEEEEAAASE!!!!!!!????According to a number of my students and other random morons here, it must be hundreds of thousands of you. Sheep rebuff beef.Do be sure to check out the slideshow. | | Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 | | 1:08 am |
blame ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mumbalo_jack Coming from any culture not Japanese, I would instantly peg this as parody. Coming as it does from Japan, I just don't know... An aside: To any of you back in the states bitching about gas at $4 per gallon, get your heads out of your asses. I'm paying damn near $7 per gallon here, and Europeans and most everyone else on the globe has been paying that or higher for years, now. The fact of the matter is that Americans aren't the only folks driving like mad anymore. Two billion Chinese and Indians and everyone in between seem to have discovered over the past decade that the worst ride is better than the best walk. You do the math. | | Monday, May 12th, 2008 | | 2:59 pm |
Rundown I ended up going all the way down the coast to Pusan last week, and hung out with the guys of the Rotten Dead MC. I was accepted as a prospect member, as well. Cheers, guys. I was still feeling high and mighty late Monday afternoon, and intended to ride back up the coast like a conquering hero before cutting across inland to Seoul. Somehow, in the afterglow of the previous night's soju binge and firebombs and Monday's savory Texas Bacon cheeseburger lunch, it never occurred to me that it would be past dusk by the time I got to the coastal road, and that I wasn't geared up for a cold night ride. ( Read more... ) | | Sunday, May 4th, 2008 | | 11:16 am |
ANOTHER road trip??? You're god damned right: Another road trip. I'm somewhere along Korea's east coast right now. pics! ( Read more... )I'm in some coastal town right now, checking the weather and considering lunch. Life is good. | | Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | | 7:37 pm |
The Olympic Torch comes to Seoul ...and by complete coincidence, I happened to be right there. I was riding along Hannam Road to meet a pal to go riding with, and noticed a wall of red-clad folks waving Chinese flags. Realizing that the torch was coming this way, I decided to stop for some pics. ( Read more... )Ah well. The Chinese especially were excited, and good for them. China's road has been a very rough one over the past few centuries, and especially in the 20th century. Today, the situation is just starting to turn around for the first time in half a millenium. Things there are far from ideal in any category, but better is better, and we should all be glad that 1/6 of humanity is past periodic mass starvation and mass political violence, and finally getting beyond the level of bare subsistence for the masses. All in all, they were all pretty eager to talk once they realized I wasn't there to do anything stupid with the torch. Nice bunch of kids. "Jongoa man-se!" ("China live forever!" is how it was translated to me) and all that. I wish China nothing but the best and hope the 2008 Olympics prove to be a great coming out party, such as it is. Cheers. | | Saturday, April 26th, 2008 | | 2:14 pm |
A few pics Yeah... Umm... I guess there wasn't much there that was awe-inspiring-photo-worthy. ( Read more... ) | | Saturday, April 19th, 2008 | | 11:08 am |
On the road
I'm about 2/3 of the way to a beach on Korea's west coast right now. We had to stop in some wild west-like little town for my compadre to take a nap.
This place is nice and isolated from the hustle and bustle of bigger Korean cities, and by the way I'm attracting attention wandering around, foreigners are virtually never seen here.
Time to go surveying for poontang. | | Sunday, April 13th, 2008 | | 9:11 pm |
I wonder if city buses cause more traffic congestion than they solve. | | Sunday, March 30th, 2008 | | 9:13 am |
Herro!
I'll be spending this afternoon in Japan in order to renew my tourist visa, so I can continue to work illegally in Korea for another week.
Then I'm going to Japan again on the 8th to get my working visa.
I'm starting to feel like I have a real job, where I wear a suit and travel and look important. Except I travel economy, rather than the First Class I richly deserve.
Also, it's not really business travel in Asia unless there are large numbers of prostitutes involved. Paid for by the company credit card. I don't have a company card. DAMN IT ALL! | | Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | | 4:58 pm |
We might dub this era
The Age of Unwarranted Anxiety. | | Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | | 4:17 pm |
Does anyone know of a good custom metalworker/fabricator? | | Saturday, March 8th, 2008 | | 4:07 pm |
Past 3 weeks. Scoring, quitting my job, getting a new job, getting lost in Japan Feb 15th: Finish up the week of work between the winter and spring breaks, was given my list of co-teachers and preliminary schedule for the start of the new school year. Weekend arrives, time to party. Wee hours of Feb 17th: Went to a noe rae bang with Korean friend, and we got a couple of rent-a-girls. Not hookers, per se, just chicks that are on call for these places to act like your girlfriend while you'rer singing terribly. What fun is belting out some Pantera tunes if you don't have someone to grope, right? ( Read more... ) | | Friday, February 29th, 2008 | | 9:50 pm |
The past two weeks...
I'm about 5 different kinds of exhausted right now.
Suffice it to say I just got back from Japan this evening, and I'm moving to a different part of the city tomorrow.
Someday, I might even make a full entry about it all.
But now, I'm off to drink. |
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