In the real world, driven by material values dictating that, to enjoy any semblance of a “lifestyle” in popular parlance, most of us have no choice but to exchange our labor for pay, which we then spend on the “things we do”, which are, technically, the “things we buy”, that is, “our shit”, as we refer to our purchases . In a nutshell, then, the algorithm of our lives becomes “no job, no shit”. That’s the problem.
Category: Things
He may envision improvements to his FOX Broadcasting unit, where the need for help with quality content is sorely needed, if we can’t believe what we’re hearing and seeing there, and it seems we can’t.
George W. Bush is a close analogue to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, with his scheduled early-August visit to Seoul. Of course all the news in the vernacular press here, and to a considerable extent, the blogosphere, will be about how the trip is intended to help beleaguered President Lee Myung-back (LMB) recover ground […]
Thousands of expatriates living and working in Korea have, by now, checked out this video. EV Boyz are, if they haven’t already moved up to the big time by virtue of this viral hit, teachers at Paju Camp of the Gyeonggi English Village, just a few short miles south of the frontier with N. Korea […]
Well now, if all goes well, this post will give you a quick ticket to some highlights of the Walla Walla Poetry Party 2005 videos that I recently uploaded to YouTube. My last post was similar, but announced uploads of WWPP ’03, so these are brand new, just for you. Snooze alarm! The end of […]
Watching the senators do their tippy-toe around Petraeus and Crocker in the Iraq hearings, and listening to the still-sickening bubble and flop of Jungle Joe Lieberman and Lil’ Lindsay Graham, it’s all your Familographer can do to resist the temptation to rip his last two hairs out by the roots and fling them against the […]
Twice a year or so, a traveling group of retail concessionaires set up booths for a street fair in our apartment complex, an event mirrored at most other major complexes (ca. 5000+ apts). The best time to visit is around the hours when all the children return home from schools and hakweons, ready for something […]
This is a subjective assessment based on observations made during thousands of hours of driving under every kind of conditions and in all parts of the peninsula during most of the past twenty years. It isn’t a country one would suspect could be so flagrantly profligate in the allocation of such an expensive and essential […]
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