slovenly operative

i’m tired.
it’s 7:30 am. more fog than any natural means can account for. lips are sticky and eyes won’t stay put. yawning like a recovering ice head. tired.
sitting here, decided: to shave or not to shave? khakis or jean? the answer: not, jeans. wondering: what was the point again?
why am i going to work [...]

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life in an industrial village

there’s no onions for me to make chili. i went and spent almost $150 on my dinner party — ass cushions, vegetables, desert fruit, meat (fucking 16,000 won a pound), and tomatoes (the only tomatoes i could find was a can of “california fresh”).
no onions.
this is news to me.
i thought i had two onions left, [...]

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the problem with living “green”

Green. it’s the new catch word, marketing tool, scare tactic, religion and driving vision. everyone wants to be green, from the Army to Apple to your local zoo. Even car compaines now say they are green.
But what do they really mean, when they evoke green? I think they mean Greeny-ness, as in the “Colbert [...]

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menu for the dinner party on friday

i’m throwing my first dinner party tomorrow night. i’m kind of worried. but here’s the menu:

chilli con carne
tequilla shots
sliced pears and apples
salad –
rice (to satisfy the koreans)
tortilla chips and salsa
soju bombs (to satisfy mr. yeom)

that’s it for now. i’m not sure about the salad dressing, or the desert. maybe ice cream? i nixed the margarita [...]

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MSG

asians put that shit in everything. following is a list of foods/products with MSG:

chocolate
biscuits
chocolate-covered biscuits
kimchi
soy sauce
sports drinks
i repeat myself: chocolate. (what the fuck? chocolate?)
bread
ramen
mandoo

and that’s just the products that say “MSG” on the packages, bright as day right on the front. i can’t read hanguel very well yet, so just you wait. i’ll update this [...]

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