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Alas, I still support Gillette by buying their armpit deodorant. Well actually, a friend of mine who visits the Philippines twice a year buys the deodorant for me, then I pay him when we meet up in Seoul. I don’t know of a better brand for my skin, and deodorant is generally hard to find in Korea, but if I do find a better brand, I might make the switch just to stick it to Gillette.
Crap—I also use a Gillette Mach 3 razor.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/August/2019 @ 4:08 pm
Good to know you’re out and about (or “oat’n a boat,” as the Canadians would say) again. And your enchiladas look quite purple.
Trump and Sharpton ought to settle their current differences by having some sort of weird-hair contest. I can imagine some strange, alternate-universe scenario in which their hairdos come alive and start screaming racist imprecations at each other.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/July/2019 @ 8:56 pm
Thirsty—very educational. I’m only a beginner at this pie/pasty stuff, so I’m always on the lookout for informative details. Many thanks.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/July/2019 @ 4:33 pm
In rereading my response, I see I didn’t really address the issue you raised. Yes, a pot pie is savory and pie-shaped; a meat pie tends to be mostly meat, although (as I think you discovered) it can have some veggies in it. Here’s a bunch of pictures of steak-and-kidney pie which, as you’ll see, are very meaty-looking. You prefer a good bit of plant matter inside your pies? I’m actually OK going almost all-carnivore.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/July/2019 @ 7:22 pm
Shape-wise, a pot pie looks like a good ol’ pie that’s served in a pie tin. A pasty is more of a “meat pocket,” if that doesn’t sound too Freudian. I.e., it’s the kind of pastry you can hold in your hand and gobble (if that doesn’t sound too Freudian). In fact, the pasty was originally conceived as a convenient, portable lunch for English workers.
Cornish pasties have fillings that include meat and vegetables, usually root vegetables like carrots or parsnips. There might also be potatoes, onions, and peas in there, sort of like the ingredients in a cottage pie (which isn’t a true pie). Here’s a pic.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/July/2019 @ 7:14 pm
I’d actually like to try making Jamaican beef patties (my favorite thing to get at 7-Eleven back in the States) and Cornish pasties (pronounced “PASS-teez,” not “PEYSS-teez”).
Meat pies tend to be mostly meat, and the meat shown in your above photos looks nice and tender (I hope it was nice and tender!). The English have their famous steak-and-kidney pie, which I love. At first, I was worried that the kidneys would taste gross, but they turned out not to have much taste at all; they mainly just add texture and volume to the meal.
Good luck finding your Hashing mojo.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/July/2019 @ 6:22 pm
I may live a monastic life free of blowjobs, crotch massages, and finger-fucking, but today, I also have a delicate stomach, possibly from something I ate yesterday. My sympathies. Get well soon.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/July/2019 @ 7:12 pm
Is that dog a guy or a girl? I see big ol’ nipples on that one. I know male dogs have nipples, but they’re usually not that big. (Not that I’ve made a study of this or anything…)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/July/2019 @ 7:55 pm
What’s your rule on things like
– allowing dogs to hop onto chairs and other furniture
– feeding dogs human food
– allowing dogs to sleep in your bed
?Sad to hear about what a dog’s life can be like. One does what one can, I guess. The rest is just adobo.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/July/2019 @ 6:08 pm
It’s too late to give advice to this startlingly young woman (32?!?), but for all people considering hiking in the heat, I’d say: know your limits!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/July/2019 @ 6:49 pm
If that’s the same Billy Goat Trail I’m thinking of, then I’ve done that trail! Great Falls Park? It’s an awesome path, and not nearly as dangerous as one might think. There are some parts where you’re either hand-and-footing your way over craggy rocks, or jumping from rock to rock (hence the trail’s name), but nothing that even an out-of-shape guy like me can’t handle. That said, hyperthermia can come about for any number of reasons; I’m sorry to hear this woman paid for her hike with her life.
Will be curious to learn the outcome of the police investigation into the murder-or-suicide. As you say: innocent until proven guilty.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/July/2019 @ 4:50 pm
Never a boring day.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/July/2019 @ 5:45 pm
I’m wondering whether that’s some sort of wolf spider (see more here). Wolf spiders come in all shapes and sizes; many are big-bodied, but some species have smallish bodies and long legs, like your house guest.
Will also have to steal a couple of your memes. Too good not to steal.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/July/2019 @ 4:59 pm
Oh, yeah: I noticed that your ex’s third sentence immediately contradicted her first and second sentences.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/July/2019 @ 4:08 pm
I suspect your ex-wife won’t care much for academe-speak. Like water off a duck’s back.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/July/2019 @ 4:05 pm
“She is not a person of color. So not racist.”
Silly John! Of course she’s right! The term “white,” after all, denotes neither a color nor a race! You can be racist against whites and still not be racist because that’s the asymmetrical (and hypocritical) dynamic the left has derived from postmodernist thinkers. Jacques Derrida talked about pairs of opposites (white/black, man/woman) in which the first element of the pair was the “privileged” one. This thinking bled out from academe into normal society. Fellow PoMo thinker Michel Foucault, following Nietzsche, claimed that society was a web of power structures that determine both authority and “truth” (always in quotes for postmodernists). So with whites presumably at the top of the social power structure in the West, racism can only flow downward; it’s never symmetrical. That’s the beast you’re dealing with; that’s the mindset you’re up against. Blame Nietzsche for this fucking mess; he had interesting things to say about reality and people, but ultimately, he’s one of the fathers of postmodernism, which lies at the root of PC culture.
Cleaning up academe by jettisoning most of its leftists is vitally important if we really want to see profound healing in America. But that’s not likely to happen anytime soon; the left dominates over 90% of every academic field except science, and even there, the PC cancer has begun to settle in (cf. scientific research on the correlation between race and intelligence). Really unfortunate.
Our best hope, for now, is to persuade young people to skip college and go to trade schools to pick up some practical (and very lucrative) skills. Practical reality is like garlic to the PC/PoMo vampire.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/July/2019 @ 5:17 pm
The latest radar seems to show the storm heading more for Japan than Korea. We got a wispy bit of rain just now, and then it let up, but I don’t think we’re going to get much significant precip.
You haven’t trained your dogs to massage you yet? (Or maybe that’s what cats are for.)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/July/2019 @ 6:23 pm
That National Highway doesn’t look any worse than Route 1 as it passes through my old neighborhood in Alexandria, VA.
I guess Canadian Joe only just died? Sorry to hear it.
One day, you’ll find Cadabra Street, I’m sure. Or at least Chupacabra Street.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/July/2019 @ 7:43 pm
There was so much more of the old you. For someone who’s not a progressive, you’ve made a hell of a lot of progress.
And, damn—you stole my thunder. I had wanted to blog about the “hampster” girl.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/July/2019 @ 6:50 pm
Short pants and tall grass make for a dangerous combination when it comes to bugs, no? The PI doesn’t have any chiggers or other skin-diggers that make life miserable when you’re fighting your way through tall grass?
Sorry about the shitty trail. Better luck next time!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 16/July/2019 @ 9:15 pm
$8 for the appetizer but $4 for the main? Intellesting. It’s one of those ironies that seafood is so expensive in an island nation—just as it’s ironically expensive in a peninsular nation like South Korea.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/July/2019 @ 6:05 pm
Rule #1 of stovetop cooking: NEVER WALK AWAY FROM A POT OR PAN ON THE RANGE.
I was going to suggest using your oven if it has a timer, then I remembered that there was a power outage. If you have kindling around the house, plus some decent cast-iron pots, you can create a “bain marie” (or double boiler) over a fire to slow-cook your meatballs. Or just use your grill instead of a campfire. (Is it a gas or charcoal grill? I forget.)
You might also consider investing in two or three small, portable gas ranges—the kind that use little cans of gas, like the ones I use here in Korea. The ranges are usually cheap; the butane cans are super-cheap, even in Korea.
Frozen, pre-made meatballs can be heated through (medium to med-high heat) on a frying pan in a matter of minutes; heat ’em through that way, or dump in sauce and heat everything through (that takes a bit longer). Just don’t ever walk away.
You can kind-of walk away when you’re boiling water or salted water, but water with pasta in it needs to be stirred every few minutes to keep the pasta from sticking to itself or to the bottom of the pot. Pasta water is also starchy, so another reason not to walk away is that, if starchy water boils over, the spilled water will evaporate, leaving the dried starch to burn on your trivet, or on whichever part of your stove is close to the flame.
Get good with fire by practicing hiking plus cooking on the trail. You can learn a lot of the commonsense stuff by yourself, without reading a book, because Mother Nature will teach you instantaneously should you make a mistake out in the woods. Ingredients for a good fire will be (1) tinder, like cotton balls, newspaper, dead pine needles, or super-thin wood shavings; (2) kindling, like thin twigs; and (3) actual fuel in the form of thick branches, split logs, etc. Creeksides will often have plenty of stones, and maybe some bare ground, on which to build a small fire pit. I did this a lot when I lived in Switzerland, and it’s a skill I’m glad I now possess. One thing you learn quickly is that wind is your enemy when you’re first starting a fire, but moderate wind is your friend once the fire is lit. Light your fires either with a lighter or with some flint and steel. This should be obvious, but don’t try cooking with fire during high winds, especially if there’s a lot of dry deadfall on the ground.
Go practice darts.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/July/2019 @ 11:07 pm
Community is where you find it. Glad you’ve got your niche.
Let me say, too, that I loved that picture of Lucky resting on your foot. That is one blissed-out dog. Who took that pic? Maya? Did she also take the shirt-lifting pic and one or two other photos of your drunken self?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/July/2019 @ 5:03 pm
Very interesting insights! Maybe one day, the law with catch up with local attitudes. Funny to hear “Catholic” and “conservative” uttered in the same sentence, given how flamingly liberal most American/Western Catholics are.
And I’m definitely stealing that Harry Potter meme.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 12/July/2019 @ 6:09 pm
“We are not cotton candy to get melted”
I had to turn off that video’s audio because the music soundtrack was obnoxiously loud and the voice track was inaudible as a result. But the visuals in the video were nice.
Congrats on winning at darts. Am curious to read your cultural spiel.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/July/2019 @ 7:48 pm
I meant kilos of Jell-O gelatin, of course.
Great landscape panoramas, as always, by the way (said he, hoping to deflect to a different topic).
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/July/2019 @ 4:51 pm
“Nothing real exciting, just taking care of some business in San Fernando, Pampanga.”
Why so coy and shady? How many kilos are we talking, here?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/July/2019 @ 2:41 pm
Good luck with the Hash!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/July/2019 @ 4:36 pm
For #12, I thought India would take first prize. All I’ve ever heard about from Koreans, Americans, and Europeans who’ve been to India is the huge beggar population.
For #14, I’d have thought China would take the cake. Then again, China recently said it would stop accepting trash from certain countries, like the US (if I’m not mistaken).
Where did #11 go?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/July/2019 @ 9:57 pm
«« Back To Stats PageAny thoughts on buying a machete to hack out a path?
And a happy anniversary to Buddy! At the risk of getting confused about which pet is which, I’d say that Buddy is truly lucky.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/July/2019 @ 7:32 pm