Thursday, December 10, 2009

What Times Are These (Politics Is Inevitable IV)

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We live in a time in history that would have been unimaginable just a few decades ago--well, except to the guys that gave Dick Tracy a wrist...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

오드리 헵번

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That's "Audrey Hepburn", for the uninitiated, one of the most glamorous stars of the Classic Hollywood era. Her best-known mo...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

[Even An Unpeeled] Apple A Day Keeps the Doctor Away

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Delightful friend Mr Hwang has just moved with his family to a new apartment. In the same complex. On the fifteenth floor, instead of the ...
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Monday, December 7, 2009

It's Beginning To Look About As Much Like Christmas As It's Going To Look

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Back in the States, Santa Claus and his Elves start to come out of hiding a bit before Halloween, and Christmas accoutrement have taken over...
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Sunday, December 6, 2009

Rant: Shopping In Seoul

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It snowed Saturday morning for an hour or so, starting about 10:45, in Gangseo-gu. It was still snowing over in Yongsan-gu when I made my w...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009

My School

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Take the line 9 subway train to Deungchon station and follow the signs to Exit 7. When you come out of the exit, follow the road due south t...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

WOTY - Invese, I Mean Twitter

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The dramatic leap in the use of social networks this year has extended to the language that surrounds them. Just a few weeks after the New O...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

Ways to Skin a Cat

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UPDATE: Before moving on to today's post, here is a follow-up to yesterday's about the furor surrounding the "short man=loser...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Fried Egg and the Loser

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The guys were talking about this on Friday night, about the girl on a TV show called "Misuda", Beauties' Chatterbox , who made...
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Birthday Party Recap

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The Birthday Boys. This is in front of Adonis, a "Western hof" directly across the street from the samgyupsal restaurant where our...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Always Look on the Bright Side

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Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends--save me some dark meat and a slice of pecan pie. Last year, if you were following along, you may ...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

TMI

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Right on the heels of receiving the results of my health check-up in the mail today, I read this story in the Korea Times about a toilet t...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

Cold and Dreary? Read a Book

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It has been a cold, gray weekend in Seoul, the kind of bleak, cheerless weather that causes a depressed man to eye the kitchen knives too so...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

A Post Wherein I Play Food Critic

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I am blogging at you from the familiar comfort of the chicken hof downstairs in my building. It's been a while, but nothing changes much...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

There But By the Grace of ...

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The longer I live, the more acutely I am aware of the role of randomness in the circumstances of birth, and what the "luck of the draw...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

Frauds and Monsters

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That's what I ended up titling my lesson in second grade this week. The textbook chapter is about Scotland, for reasons which I won'...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Changes at Yeouido Park

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There are two meanings to the title of this post: first, I have assembled a little video made from snapshots at Yeouido Park throughout the ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Seoul Lantern Festival

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So, it was cold and it was windy but that did not prevent about five trillion people from showing up at the Cheonggyecheon for the opening f...
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