February 2012
2 posts
“Let medicine be your food and let food be your medicine.”
– Hippocrates
January 2012
8 posts
“For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious,...”
– Niccolo Machiavelli
(While I do not agree on all of his teachings, I do like this quote.)
WatchI appreciate the sentiment in this video, I truly do. But too often do people simply post a video like this and are content, thinking they’ve done their part.
“I’ll just help spread the word, that’s enough, someone else will save the world.”
When posting content like this, ask yourself, what have you done personally or are working on to better the life of your...
“What sick, ridiculous puppets we are, and what a gross little stage we dance on....”
– Morgan Freeman, from the movie Se7en.
An excerpt from my favorite book of the moment....
From “Women” by Charles Bukowski
Chapter 12
I went to my place, started drinking. I snapped on the radio and found some classical music. I got my Coleman lantern out of the closet. I turned out the lights and sat playing with the Coleman lantern. There were tricks you could play with a Coleman lantern. Like turning it off and then on again and watching the heat of the...
November 2011
5 posts
October 2011
5 posts
“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be under the guise of...”
– James Madison, 4th president of the United States.
So the subordination of politics to economics was presaged. 헐…
“Clothes are for people that don’t believe in freedom.”
– My little sister
WatchI went to the club this past weekend with a few friends and guess who was there? None other than Amerie! You remember her, right? She was best known for her hit “One Thing.” She sang that, and some other songs, live. I was taken aback by how remarkably similar to her CD she sounds. It was thoroughly impressive, this vid doesn’t do her justice.
Why isn’t she more famous?...
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
3 posts
July 2011
3 posts
June 2011
5 posts
Finally!
I finally got an answer to a question that has been burning a hole in the back of my brain for the past year or so:
“What does English sound like to non-English speakers?”
Ok, now you’re gonna be a smart ass and say,”Don’t be ridiculous, it sounds like this, ‘Hello. How are you? I’ll take a hamburger and fries!’” Please, I’ve heard it a...
Its Rebecca Black's Birthday today, Today she is...
WHY AM I LAUGHING HARD AT THIS.
HAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
Giving away Nikon D3000 w/ Fish-eye Lens.
wordsareinfectious:
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE FOLLOWING ME.
Two months old, very good condition.
WILL INCLUDE a Nikon strap, USB cord, Three lenses, Quick Charger, Body cap, Two rechargeable batteries, and charger.
Reblogs only please. The winner will be determined by a random number generator.
CONTEST ENDS JULY 1ST.
The reason why I decided to give it away was because I am getting a Nikon...
“We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn’t...”
– Joel Kramer
May 2011
5 posts
Apparently, I can beat up 32 five-year olds →
This is why I’ll never be a good teacher. I’m too busy imagining how far I can send the smaller kids flying with a solid side-kick to the chest. Yeah, some of the boys are big, but I’ve fought bigger.
Middle School Korean girls are just a tad batshit...
Being an elementary school teacher, my interactions with middle school students have been very limited. But with the few interactions that I’ve had, the only conclusion I can draw is: Korean middle school girls are nuts. It’s true, and don’t just take my word for it. My friend who teaches middle school warns time and time again that middle school boys are mischievous, but...
Anonymous asked: How's Korea, cuzin? Looks like your doing well. Just stumbled on herbie's and hopped over here. Well greetings from the pacific NW. LATER.
April 2011
6 posts
...But They Ain't Cuter
This is Hae-Won (I think). And this is her BearHolic sweater.
Fucking Rad.
She was hesitant to wear it because “Teach-eoh, I siksu grade now. So Bear Sweat-teoh is…mmmm…*crosses arms into an X*… is nahgood.”
But a little nudging from yours truly and she was sporting this delightful number on Friday morning. Aren’t you glad?
Your Kids May Be Smarter Than Mine...
Every week we have a little English quiz to keep the kiddies on their toes and to check their retention. It should look like this:
See, there are Korean phrases on the left and you’re supposed to write them down in English on the right. But once in a while you’ll get a student who does this:
…Brilliant. It’s shit quality, but what the student did is write the letters...
Turn this blog around! (Sung to the melody of...
So, it has recently been brought to my attention by several (read: 2) people that I haven’t been updating my blog much of late. There’s a perfectly good reason for this and it can be found in the first paragraph of this post. Shout out to Lewey, without his eloquently written posts that mirror my opinions it would be just impossible to stay this lazy.
Anyway, I henceforth decree that...
February 2011
7 posts
I'm Awesome
After last night’s festivities, we found ourselves at the 24 hour Burger King once again. But as we looked outside the window, we noticed a ruckus. There were two Korean guys being held apart by numerous people, one of them had a bloodied up face/head. It was apparent how profusely he was bleeding when he pulled his hands away from his head to reveal that his hands were covered in blood, it...
Educational Reading
Wow…
…wow…
…and WOW!
That was just to get your attention. These are Korean ads for a phone. These pics are from a wonderful blog called “The Grand Narrative.” It is written by a man named James Turnbull who tackles difficult issues Korea faces today such as interracial relationships, the objectifying of underage Korean girls in the media, the growing...
I. Need. To. Read. Faster.
“Wow, only like $2 for a pack of five.”
“What the heck, why are these Kit Kats so cheap?”
2 minutes later…
“oh.”
Long Overdue
January has always been a good month to me, and this year that hasn’t changed. I had been awarded 5 extra vacation days from the DMOE for submitting lesson materials, and had the perfect opportunity to use them since my brother was coming to visit. We spent the two weeks we had between Daegu, Gyeongju, Busan, and Seoul. But enough with boring words… on with the pictures!
For those...
I love how his writing brings out the contradictory nature of human emotion. A hauntingly beautiful short, and a poignant reminder of how relationships work in the real world.
whiskeymonologues:
My wife has been torturing the vegetable patch for over half an hour and now I can hear her sobbing in the backyard. I refill my mug with a lot of Jack and a bit of Coke for good measure before I head...