I spent most of Saturday in bed, missing out on some glorious weather in an attempt to sleep off the onslaught of chemicals onto my body and brain.  Pickled coma.  But eventually I creaked out of bed, fed my cats and myself (scrambled eggs and green peppers, mmm), and eventually headed to the Seomyeon area to meet Angry Steve and Sammy for some ( Read more... )

Oh, how the shitty has fallen even further.

These words shot through my mind last Friday night as I sat at The Crown, sipping urine-y Korean beer and waiting for the current proprietor of the place attempt to find the opening game of the World Cup. This was it, the first day of humankind's biggest sporting event, and the man had made absolutely no ( Read more... )

I must hie myself to the hospital. Weeks of weekends with not a jot of rest, coupled with flagrant abuse of alcohol has left my pushing-40 body in a ravaged state. I just ignored last week's cold in an effort to mentally forbid it. My lungs now feel like they're filled with swampwater. Yesterday morning I made the mistake of eating some soup ( Read more... )

It's Tuesday morning and raining plenty, but I don't really mind, because the weather has been nice of late and I'm from the Pacific Northwest, where it does this for nine months out of the year. Nine months - like some kind of shitty weather gestation period - after which the region gives birth to several months of sunshine. Makes life worth ( Read more... )

The last piece I did, which was full of piss and vinegar, garnered three comments here on LJ.  It was imported over to  facebook where it got 41 (including a few of my responses).

Hmmm....

I like living in Korea. I've been here for almost six years now, so if I hated it, I would have split a long time ago. I like hiking, I like the food, I like riding my motorcycle, checking out the street markets, and drinking my ass off. It's a crowded crazy little place and I've grown to love it, for better or for worse.  Plus, the girls are ( Read more... )

... I'd be lying.

KOREA IS BEST!!!

That great Seattle website Monkeygoggles is running my piece "The Last Time I Met Kurt Cobain," which, as some of you may recall, originally appeared right here at Showbiz Central.

If you've never read it, I would recommend you take a gander.

PART 1

PART 2

I hate this ( Read more... )