Hank O'Kimchi is not my Irish-Korean stainless-steel fetishist friend†.



† I did not pre-prepare that lame joke before air-time, I swear. It just came to me right then, like a bolt from the blue, like Athena leaping from the goddamn forehead of goddamn Justice Scalia.

So, anyway - as I mentioned in the other thread, I had SoJu for the first time last week. We drank a couple of little bottles, and then Greece won the Eurovision song contest. That stuff makes your head :: crazy ::. And not just Drunken Crazy, but proper "I find myself thinking and reacting in ways that are completely alien to me. I'm scared, but I cannot help myself" crazy.

Just saying.
Making conversation, etc.

The Soj is lovely brain-pickling semi-refined dog piss with a mastodon kick if you neck enough, but cheap as chips, and a fine complement to the most grunty of Korean food, food not renowned for its subtlety, but which I nonetheless love quite unreservedly.

Which is appropriate, I guess. Not a fine-wine-and-gourmet-foo-foo-ery-wonderchicken, me.

Delightful! But do you have images? Because I could totally see this being the 'Gourmet Magazine' cover image/feature of the month for July or August.

Meh. The link made my IE go away and never come back. Kimchi is an acquired taste. I've acquired it. Korean food is pretty good once you get used to it. Korean versions of American food (lasagna made with tortillas instead of pasta?!?), however, is something else altogether.

1. There is no link.
2. Korean tortillas? What the fuck?
3. You are a doody-head.
4. No shit? No shit!
5. Shit is an acquired taste.
6. ???
7. Profit!

Note: Doohickie may or may not be a doody-dead, but first syllable defines destiny in the new theoryofeverything I just made up a minute or two ago, and the first syllable of 'Doohickie' is 'doo-', so you can take that shit to the bank, motherbasters!

I still never get it. Damn.

Actually, any link that makes IE go away and never come back is a golden child of the hypertext metaphysic. Sorry to snark such, because I really do hate most the 'tech-er than thou' stuff, but it's not even like you have to buy something or strain your back at all to use ff/mozilla.

It's understandable if one is restrained to IE at work, but that one shouldn't take umbrage that the less enslaved aren't going to be aware of all the IE ticks and flinches.

i just luv terentino films did u see killing zoe? i aslo like desparado. hes so good with dialog

This is part of my campaign to get a .beer top level domain.

Cast off your URLs! Join me!

Storm the... well, storm something, damnit. Storm Doohickie!

you can get a budweiser email account if you so choose :)

Well there's an .ER TLD for Eritrea. Think we can convince them to sell us a subdomain to make .BE.ER ?

Jesus dhurva, we're talking about beer not unfermented lambs piss.

sorry: i only go by the ads :)

Korean tortillas? What the fuck?

For serious--a Korean joint near me serves up some fine kimchi and black bean burritos. Throw in a few shrimps and a fried egg and it's the breakfast of champions.

Would you like to hear the story of my friend who woke up in the middle of the night literally in tears because of her husband's entire-jar-of-kimchi-induced farts?

No? Sorry, too late.

but it's not even like you have to buy something or strain your back at all to use ff/mozilla.

I tried ff/mozilla, and it didn't display pull-down menus properly from another site I frequent. I hate MS as much as the next guy, but it really does work as well as anything else I've tried.

And re: Korean tortillas, when I was in Korea (Chinju) about 5 years ago, there was a TGIFridays clone restaurant with "American style" food. Apparently, they couldn't come up with the flat lasagna noodles, so they used tortilla shells. They also produced very convincing-looking fajitas that tasted just like bulgogi (and had mayonnaise on the side- I don't think they knew what sour cream is). One of semi-permanent locals, an American, would wave his hands theatrically and state, "Everything you see here is an illusion."

The Koreans learn by emulating. Eventually, they figure out the subtleties, but until they do, they produce not-quite-right imitations (of American food or Japanese cars or whatever). If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I guess we should all be flattered by the Koreans. If this sounds like I'm poking fun at the Koreans, this is not my intention. I admire them quite a bit and have several Korean friends. Someone told me they had only a few paved roads at the close of the Korean War; now they are ahead of the U.S. in terms of wireless infrastructure.

Stavros is undoubtedly more of an authority on Korea and things Korean; I've only spent about a month over there altogether.

There is no link.
There is no spoon.
Got it.

Anyway, thanks for the Korean Kulture Klass, wonderchiKen, I was under the false impression that Kim Chee was the illegitimate daughter of Kim Jong-Il and Kim Basinger.

i'm taking the fifth on this

It's understandable if one is restrained to IE at work, but that one shouldn't take umbrage that the less enslaved aren't going to be aware of all the IE ticks and flinches.

Well, I am restrained to IE at work due to a totally locked-down "Standard Operating Environment" but, though the magic of portable firefox and a USB drive, am able to ditch IE anyway.

Soju is the nectar of the gods as far as I am concerned. I am not generally much of a drinker, but i can drink that stuff all night with the only ill effect being that I go totally insane and start seeing things. Which sounds bad, but I usually get to that stage with other alcoholoc beverages at exactly the same time as I reach the "puke on your own shoes" stage.

Kimchi, you can keep.

*no beer but eyeing the clearer bottles*

have you gotten to try that herb infused moonshiny stuff featured in this PBS docu called Hidden Korea?
(got it for the 'rents ages ago, can't remember the name of the stuff)

Kimchi scares me, and I like some pretty scary food. I've eaten something from just about every nationality and have traipsed across most of known Earthly taxonomy.

Heck, Korean food in general mostly gives me the creeping willies, and when confronted with it I can't help but wonder when it's going to crawl off the plate and try to eat me in a swift turn of the, err, tables.

And y'know what's really terrible? I'm sure you do, but here's what was really, truly terrible for me: Working at a walk-up technical helpdesk at a campus with a very robust Korean exchange student population, with the bulk of your shifts just after lunchtime. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just a simple infodesk, but I swear those frequent hour-long support sessions complete with visible outgassing of Kimchi-breath prematurely etched the hell out of my eyeglasses. I used to have to take fresh-air outdoor walks just to get my head to stop spinning and make my eyes stop watering.