It comes close...
we have a beer and a cider....
and the smell of cigarettes..
I blame the godammned Scotts... and Tennyson... and reliable clocks...
The bar has turned all the tvs to some kind of savage Korean NY clebarion with drums, fire, and people without faces...
I'm starting to feel better!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Live! Blogging! The! New! Year! Part 5 golden rings
Each ring lovingly left by a 400 cc glass of Cass beer...
Yvonne has retreated into "The Girl From Leam Lane," one of her books that show the reliability of horrible death for women.
It is reassuring to know that the Universe cares to that extent....
The bar is now all Korean, and we may not make it out alive, as Yvonne has been humming Japanese war songs from the 1940s.....
I think she has read too many books..
Yvonne has retreated into "The Girl From Leam Lane," one of her books that show the reliability of horrible death for women.
It is reassuring to know that the Universe cares to that extent....
The bar is now all Korean, and we may not make it out alive, as Yvonne has been humming Japanese war songs from the 1940s.....
I think she has read too many books..
Live! Blogging! The! New! Year! Part 40 ounces!
I just kicked Yvonne of the "Snoopy" Facebook game...
she was bitter...
apparently the New Year will, like my first serious GF, never come...
and, of course, both will be my fault...
sigh...
where is the champagne?
she was bitter...
apparently the New Year will, like my first serious GF, never come...
and, of course, both will be my fault...
sigh...
where is the champagne?
Live! Blogging! The! New! Year! Part Trixie
The cleaning must have worked, as the trio at the next table continues to drink what looks like California wine....
New Year's may be, however, canceled, because far behind Yvonne two people have ignited cigarettes, and this makes Yvonne act as though she is slowly being strangled in a Khmer Rouge death camp....
The fights continue on the tube.. NY is about 1 hour 15 away..
New Year's may be, however, canceled, because far behind Yvonne two people have ignited cigarettes, and this makes Yvonne act as though she is slowly being strangled in a Khmer Rouge death camp....
The fights continue on the tube.. NY is about 1 hour 15 away..
Live! Blogging! The! New! Year! Part Tres
LOL...
the cleaning job must have been good..
a trio just came in, and have seated themselves at the table that was just covered in puke...
Man.. I love Korea...
1 hour 40 to go...
the cleaning job must have been good..
a trio just came in, and have seated themselves at the table that was just covered in puke...
Man.. I love Korea...
1 hour 40 to go...
Live! Blogging! The! New! Year! Part Deux
Well.. the army dude straight-legged it back to the table next to us, puked violently, and then went face down on the table..
9:48 or so...
Yvonne has green tea latte all over her face, some K1 dude just got the nut shot of all time, and I'm getting another beer...
With some luck, I'll puke before midnight...
PS.. the "clean up the puke" process in this bar is efficient in ways snow response never is....
plastic bags, plastic brooms, disinfectant, and everyone in pink plastic gloves...
wow.. I may just be becoming aroused!
9:48 or so...
Yvonne has green tea latte all over her face, some K1 dude just got the nut shot of all time, and I'm getting another beer...
With some luck, I'll puke before midnight...
PS.. the "clean up the puke" process in this bar is efficient in ways snow response never is....
plastic bags, plastic brooms, disinfectant, and everyone in pink plastic gloves...
wow.. I may just be becoming aroused!
Live! Blogging! The! New! Year!
Delicious sogogi dinner..
we now sit in "The Library" drinking... next to a white dude and his Korean girlfriend who are engaging in a snogging session that would be pretty much inappropriate on this side of MTV...
Tea for Yvonne... Gin and tonic for me....
One soldier has just staggered out...
delicious side-dish of sugary nuts (Yeah, I got that!) nearly gone....
we now sit in "The Library" drinking... next to a white dude and his Korean girlfriend who are engaging in a snogging session that would be pretty much inappropriate on this side of MTV...
Tea for Yvonne... Gin and tonic for me....
One soldier has just staggered out...
delicious side-dish of sugary nuts (Yeah, I got that!) nearly gone....
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Brrrr...
Clear but icy cold..
A nice change from Sunday and Monday's snow. Sunday night the snow hit and all the roads turned to silly mush. Koreans don't seem to have tires that deal well with snow, so the main road outside my neighborhood (which is on a rather steep hill) as a skating rink of cars fruitlessly spinning their tires and drifting here and there on the road and in parking lots. After seeing Yvonne off to the tube-station I sat outside for about 20 minutes and watched the show.
Monday morning, there were few taxis available and non on my street which was still snowy and (yes) still steep. Korean don't know how to drive in the snow, and there doesn't seem to be a civic response to snow at all. I did see some trucks driving around dropping off bags of artificial salt, but that seems to be the extent of the official response. Kind of lame, considering snow isn't exactly a surprise. Homeowners and shop owners do clean 'their' sections of the sidewalk, and sometimes the road, but that is an iffy response. Taxi drivers are not about to get up in the early cold and wreck their livelihoods, so in general on days like this they take an extra couple of hours of sleep. I had to walk all the way to Noksapyeong station to grab a cab.
The other thing that happens is that the large amount of polished granite, marble, and other stones used on floors, stairs, sidewalks, and entry halls, becomes incredibly slick with freezing. This is the season all the TV channels are running alarmist adds with halmoni and halbogee falling over and breaking their hips, but those ads are based in observance. Everyone except the very young tiptoes carefully about - everyone except the violently smashed Ajusshi I saw last night. Remarkably, his lurches, stutters and stumbles seemed to be equally met by the treachery of the ground, and although he could barely stand up when in one place, his semi-epileptic mode of walking seemed adequate to the weather.
Oh well - another storm may be coming in tomorrow, so we are all girding our loins and other historical phrases..
A nice change from Sunday and Monday's snow. Sunday night the snow hit and all the roads turned to silly mush. Koreans don't seem to have tires that deal well with snow, so the main road outside my neighborhood (which is on a rather steep hill) as a skating rink of cars fruitlessly spinning their tires and drifting here and there on the road and in parking lots. After seeing Yvonne off to the tube-station I sat outside for about 20 minutes and watched the show.
Monday morning, there were few taxis available and non on my street which was still snowy and (yes) still steep. Korean don't know how to drive in the snow, and there doesn't seem to be a civic response to snow at all. I did see some trucks driving around dropping off bags of artificial salt, but that seems to be the extent of the official response. Kind of lame, considering snow isn't exactly a surprise. Homeowners and shop owners do clean 'their' sections of the sidewalk, and sometimes the road, but that is an iffy response. Taxi drivers are not about to get up in the early cold and wreck their livelihoods, so in general on days like this they take an extra couple of hours of sleep. I had to walk all the way to Noksapyeong station to grab a cab.
The other thing that happens is that the large amount of polished granite, marble, and other stones used on floors, stairs, sidewalks, and entry halls, becomes incredibly slick with freezing. This is the season all the TV channels are running alarmist adds with halmoni and halbogee falling over and breaking their hips, but those ads are based in observance. Everyone except the very young tiptoes carefully about - everyone except the violently smashed Ajusshi I saw last night. Remarkably, his lurches, stutters and stumbles seemed to be equally met by the treachery of the ground, and although he could barely stand up when in one place, his semi-epileptic mode of walking seemed adequate to the weather.
Oh well - another storm may be coming in tomorrow, so we are all girding our loins and other historical phrases..
Saturday, December 26, 2009
As Stafford Notes, "It is funny because it's true."
An amusing piss-take on some Korean obsessions by someone who has an uncanny ability to channel Konglish..
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry PaganMass! (A semi-re-run)
Rudolph the gamy reindeerHad a very mangled leg
And if you ever saw it,
You’d say hey cripple get a peg
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him lame
They used to trip poor Rudolph
And keep him out of reindeer games
After a visit from the ADA
Santa came to say
I have to hire the handicapped
So won’t you come as my skycap?
Rudolph the wobbly reindeer
Wasn’t all that great at flight
And if it wasn’t for the ADA
He wouldn’t have been aloft that night
Rudolph the feeble reindeer
Wobbled weakly towards the sky
All of the other reindeer
Began to worry they would die.
Flying over icy wastes
Rudolph’s leg gave out
The sleigh began to tip and spin
Lines tangled and they corkscrewed in
All of the other reindeer
Screamed in fear and agony
As Rudolph the crippled reindeer
Brought the sleigh down into the sea
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