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A league of distinguished gentlemen
Very pleasant, indeed. Thanks again.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/April/2015 @ 4:17 pm
Thanks for the shout-out.
“Mr. Kim’s pearls and gems”
Steaming nuggets, more like.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/March/2015 @ 3:11 pm
Life is looking up! Congrats, man.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/March/2015 @ 7:29 pm
My sympathies. I just lost a W20,000 farecard the same way. It just up and disappeared on me. I’d rather blame gremlins or Murphy’s Law than my own mental incompetence, but evidence for incompetence is steadily mounting as time goes by.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/March/2015 @ 2:52 pm
Oh, how you tempt us.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/March/2015 @ 4:52 pm
The things kids learn in school these days
Horrifying.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/March/2015 @ 9:42 pm
All the news that prints to fit
You have my sympathies regarding all the paperwork and legal rigamarole. Sounds horrible. I don’t envy you.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/March/2015 @ 3:16 am
Down in the mouth and knee deep in doo doo
No, you’re right: not nearly so misleading. But I was expecting to read that you’d gotten into deep trouble with the Missus, or that you’d been fired from work for some ethical violation and were about to be brought up on charges. That’s the sort of thing I imagine when I read “(knee-)deep doo-doo.”
By the way—the picture of the dog with its head stuck inside a loaf of bread says, in large print: “Noisy dog next door.” The smaller print says, “When you’re looking for a quiet room [to stay in]…” The ad is for the Jikbang service, which is essentially a site (or app) with listings for studios, apartments, and other residences. I’m not sure how the image of a dog whose head is stuck inside a bread loaf is supposed to connote “noisy dog,” but such are the mysteries of Korean marketing.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/March/2015 @ 12:27 am
Good luck with the mouth, the knee, and the job! Given the title of your post, however, I was expecting much darker news. I’m glad I was wrong.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/March/2015 @ 9:50 pm
It only hurts until the pain goes away
Sounds delicious. There was a chain restaurant called Hard Times Cafe in Old Town Alexandria. I’d normally order their Cincinnati chili on top of a bowl of Fritos corn chips. Nasty good.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/February/2015 @ 1:01 am
Sorry to read that you went through so much pain, but it’s good to know that the worst seems to be over.
Chili is next up on my list of big things to cook. Yours looks quite tasty. And chili with corn bread… is that a Carolinian thing?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/February/2015 @ 11:41 pm
If the six turned up to be nine
“I went 5-1 in singles last night, 2-1 in doubles.”
Does this mean “5 wins, 1 loss in singles” and “2 wins, 1 loss in doubles”? If so, then congratulations, assuming this also means you won the day.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/February/2015 @ 3:55 pm
“You can possible to go at low cost”
Looks as though you had a great trip! Welcome back to the big town.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 16/February/2015 @ 5:57 pm
I imagine that the first major case of bureaucratic circular logic in a typical American’s life comes right about the end of college: to get a decent job, you need experience; to get experience, you need a decent job.
Congrats on the $1378; too bad most of that gets dumped into the $1300 hole. But hey—$78 is good for two trips to Bennigan’s (without alcohol).
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 12/February/2015 @ 11:40 pm
Regarding the “dal.komm coffee” issue: it does look German, as “komm” is the imperative form of the verb “kommen,” i.e., to come. But the syllables “dal-komm” are probably a reference to the Korean adjective 달콤한 (“dal-kom-han”), i.e., sweet/sugary.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/February/2015 @ 4:06 pm
I’m still trying to figure out how I missed that walk-out post. Anyway, glad to know you’re back with the team. There are some who might learn from the wisdom of staying together when the option to walk away presents itself. Commitment means something.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/February/2015 @ 11:10 pm
Congratulations! May the streak continue.
(Or did I just jinx you?)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/February/2015 @ 1:10 pm
Feel free to sign me on base, but it’s my treat next time!
I’m surprised you didn’t bust my balls re: chatting up the ladies.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/January/2015 @ 3:30 am
I hope you’re not gonna be sick of Tex-Mex by the time we meet on Wednesday.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/January/2015 @ 3:49 pm
For what it’s worth, whenever I do a Costco run and end up with a huge box of groceries to carry home, I always take a cab. It’d be nice to have my own car for grocery runs, but there’s no way in hell that I’m driving in Seoul.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/January/2015 @ 9:20 pm
Urrrggh—they mistranslated “esprit d’escalier.” They called it “staircase ghost,” based on the fact that the word “esprit” can mean “spirit.” But “esprit” also means “wit,” as in the French expression “faire de l’esprit,” i.e., to be witty or to engage in wit. Also, “esprit d’escalier” is most decidedly NOT a simple comeback: it’s the comeback that you think of when it’s too late: you’ve lost the argument and you’re stomping up (or down) the stairs in a huff when the perfect retort suddenly comes to you. At that point, though, halfway up (or down) the stairs, such a comeback is useless, and that’s the implicit humor that underlies the French expression: to experience “staircase wit” is to experience a kind of rhetorical 20/20 hindsight as you suddenly realize what you should have said.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/January/2015 @ 1:10 am
Your wish is my command. You might want to skip to about 2:30 in the video. These guys are two Carolinians who do a radio and video show called “Good Mythical Morning,” which often seems to involve taste tests of some sort. It’s light comedy—amusing but not particularly deep. Might be interesting to see the Korean girls’ reaction to these guys, especially when, early on, the one guy looks into a bag of Korean snacks and says, “It’s like turds.”
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/January/2015 @ 12:38 pm
What’s a shame is that, in the age of short attention spans and constant updating, the writer will receive perhaps a momentary interest before fading immediately back into obscurity. WaPo writer Cynthia McCabe has done the author a service, but it’s a temporary one at best.
I tried reading a passage from the author’s blog, but it was too filled with annoying parentheticals. If this is a good sample of his writing style, it’s no wonder he never caught on. Self-publishing in free countries is subject to the merciless laws of the free market: if you don’t give the people what they want (and according to the article, the writer felt he had to give people what they needed, not what they wanted), you can’t expect the public to embrace you.
This is the paradox of being a scholarly introvert with authorial pretensions: you don’t want to deal with people; you have a distorted view of human nature and thus little idea of how to communicate properly; at the same time, you’re yearning to say something to the masses, but you keep shooting yourself in the foot.
The irony is that, according to the article, Dennis Williams was able to connect and communicate with people in his capacity as a teacher. He was getting through to people, but he somehow felt that his writing was more important than the influence he wielded as a teacher. Very sad that he judged an entire aspect of his life as meaningless and/or irrelevant.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/January/2015 @ 4:48 am
“On Thursday we moved into this brand spanking new apartment building…”
“We”? Not “I”? Is there some good news that I missed? I thought I was pretty good about keeping up with your blog, seeing as Long Time Gone is on my feed, but I feel as if I’ve missed something crucial.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/January/2015 @ 2:26 pm
Yeah, that was at least partly a mess of his own making. The “so I hit him” refrain got old fast.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/January/2015 @ 9:13 pm
I hope things go well for Jeremy, legally speaking. Too bad you had only ten minutes with him, but it sounds as though he’s feeling feisty. Exercise is doubtless giving him energy and focus as well. Fingers crossed.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/January/2015 @ 4:56 am
Quite the character.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/January/2015 @ 7:31 pm
First panel: “100 lashes if you’re not dying of laughter.”
Second panel: “Love: Stronger than Hate.”
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/January/2015 @ 12:19 am
A classic moment, worthy of Kevin Smith and his nerd dialogues.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/January/2015 @ 2:07 pm
«« Back To Stats PageGreat survey. Most “meta,” indeed. I think we’re mostly on the same page, you and I, but some of those panelists sound positively goofy.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/January/2015 @ 2:25 pm