Saturday, 10 November 2018

Life on the flight path

F-16 coming around for final
You can see the exact moment I had to smash my fingers into my ears...

The accidental reaction clip

The next F-16 in line
The Black Eagles
A Black Eagle T-50
Dae Han Min Guk!


  Living at the threshold of a military airfield's runway has its ups and downs.
  -Up: free airshow every day
  -Down: Free turbine alarm clock every morning
  -Up: The 30-foot-long purple flames from two F-5s in a full-afterburner takeoff at night is a pretty cool sight
  -Down: The smell of A-1 jet fuel in the morning
  -Up: Seeing F-16s land 50 feet overhead
  -Down: being deafened by said F-16s

Wacky signs in and around Gangneung-town









Panic on the streets of Gangneung
Panic on the streets of Jumunjin
I wonder to myself
Could life ever be sane again?
The Seoul side-streets that you slip down
I wonder to myself
Hopes may rise on the Namdaechon
But choco pie, you're not safe here
So you run down
To the safety of the maeul
But there's panic on the streets of Tekji
Daegu, Donghae, Ibam-dong
I wonder to myself
Burn down the dabang
Hang the blessed 'Joshi
Because the phlegm that they constantly spit
It says nothing to me about my life
Hang the blessed 'Joshi
Because the phlegm they constantly spit
On the Seoul side-streets that you slip down
The provincial maeuls you jog 'round
Hang the 'Joshi, hang the 'Joshi, hang the 'Joshi
Hang the 'Joshi, hang the 'Joshi, hang the 'Joshi


(PS The Smiths rock)

GNG libations


The weekly soju intake of the average ajosshi
There shouldn't be this much Cass in the whole world
Ball Beer! Ball Beer!


Happy time! Happy time!


Best thing of the week

My weekly Maxim intake

  Have a drink, y'bastids. By the way, I barely drink these days. It sure ain't 2009 no more.

Loser Back Home

"The best part was when I avoided eye contact, like when you try to
get a cat to look at its own reflection in the mirror. I know, sweet, right?"
  Ah, the classic LBH, or ‘Loser Back Home.’ These dudes tend to be from small towns in Alberta or Devon, and somehow end up with naïve Korean girls way outta their league, who regularly tell the guys “Oh, you look like Tom Cruise!” When confronted with another foreigner, these guys tend to react like a kid caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar.
  To be clear, I don’t go out of my way to run up and talk to other foreigners I encounter in Korea. I’ve been back here for over a month, have no foreign friends, and am smugly contented with that situation. Who needs all the petty intrigue and bogus backstab smiles? That being said, I usually give a courtesy nod if eye contact is made. But not this guy.
  As he approached me, he whipped out his phone and started flapping his twat lips in a common-as-muck accent from somewhere in southern England. “Oh yeahhh, I knowww, oi knaaaar. What time? Wot toiiime?”
  Seemed strange, and when they got ten feet past me, the phone was gone, and the girlfriend let out a giggle. I let out a braying imitation of her horse-whinny, and added a squeal of manic amusement for flourish. They turned at that, then sheepishly fled, noses in the air.
   The fake-call incident put a wild hair up my ass for about eight minutes, and then I found a super rare bird, and all was well with the world again. I hope I run into Twat-lips again. I will run up to him and start talking to him, follow him around and beg him to be my friend. What a cunt. I'm gonna start my OWN club, and he won't be allowed in.

GNGffiti

My hands-down favourite




  It's smoggy as fuck today, so I stayed in and toddled about the house.

GNG critters of late




My neighbour dog - I used to give him quail eggs, but since I've been giving him meat, he turns his nose up at the eggs. Hmmph! Well I've never! He's a good boy though, never barks at me anymore.
Hey hey I think I found your lost cat. Jesus, I hope they read this blog...


  Apparently someone was murdering cats in GNG last month - slicing them up like kimbap and leaving them near schools. That will end well.

Persim’man




  On a bird-walk in the hills behind my farmhouse, I came across this guy snipping persimmons. I got to chatting with him, and he insisted I take his best fruit of the day. It was delicious, and that was kind of the persimmon man. The end.

Monk revisited





  Way back in 2012 (ahh, those weren’t the days), I visited Gangneung in the name of birds on a blizzard February day. On the bus ride up the east coast, I had a memorable encounter with a monk (https://harfangperdu.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-new-monk-friend.html). Anyhoo, I found myself at the same bus terminal the other day, and took comparison pics, for shits n giggles. Here they are, compare away. Look, see how some stuff changes, and other stuff doesn’t! Best blog post ever!

GNG vids


  This woman works harder than anyone reading this, by a factor or 50.


  Trot music, baby! I fuckin' love it.

Saturday, 3 November 2018

Silly crap of GNG

Daiso is bright as fuck. Seriously, I can see the cholesterol pumping through my veins in this place...





  Peeeeee Ohhhhh Beeeee!