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		<title>dj doc; my new favorites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My new favorite song is DJ Doc&#8217;s I&#8217;m This Kind of Person. I especially love that they make fun of other Kpop idol groups&#8230; and I especially especially love that they make fun of the boy bands who fake-play instruments while doing silly dance moves. == Related posts:A train wreck I can&#8217;t stop looking at&#8230; [...]


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		<title>the squat toilet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in Korea for 51 weeks, and for 51 weeks I&#8217;ve maneuvered my way out of ever having to use a squat toilet&#8230; &#8230;until now&#8230; It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m against the squat toilet.  Like most things in Korea, it&#8217;s efficient and it makes sense.  I&#8217;ve just had this perpetual fear that I would lose [...]


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		<title>my new home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week while I was planning my trip back to America and trying to navigate three states in 12 days while also trying to see many friends, I felt a sudden dose of relief when my itinerary arrived at the date I would arrive back in Korea. And then I realized&#8230; Korea is my new [...]


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		<title>living in a movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I moved to Korea I immersed myself in Korean movies &#8212; at least as much as I could via Netflix (which doesn&#8217;t offer all that much).  I remember watching the movies and feeling like I was in some bizarre dreamland. The movies were very similar to Hollywood, but something was always off.  Small things [...]


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		<title>bodybuilding &amp; and the destruction of therapy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I went to my first bodybuilding competition.  Some friends from my gym were entering and I wanted to support them, while also realizing that the chance I&#8217;ll befriend bodybuilders again is about as likely as Bristol and Levi living happily ever after. It was interesting.  I saw more muscles, more black bikinis, and [...]


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		<title>getting heated over Netanyahu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week one of my Facebook friends posted an article by Al-Jazeera on Israel&#8217;s attempt to turn Jordan into the Palestinian homeland. I was reading the article while sipping my coffee and enjoying labors of free speech when suddenly I was thrown back to Jack Ass Land when someone left an insanely ignorant and mis-guided message [...]


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		<title>McChrystal&#8217;s Team America had patches!  PATCHES!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[General McChrystal may not have been the most politically savvy person in the lot, but at least he had a sense of humor. In the infamous Rolling Stones article that cost McChrystal his job, it was mentioned that some of his team referred to themselves as Team America&#8230;  Team America being the exhaustingly hilarious movie [...]


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		<title>North Korea’s new propaganda poster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been an interesting week on the Korean peninsula&#8230; with many things happening related to the sinking of the South Korean ship, the Cheonan. On July 9, the UN Security Council released a statement about the sinking, &#8220;condemn[ing]&#8221; the attack but not placing the blame on North Korea.  So, no new sanctions on Kim [...]


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		<title>“Nothing to Envy” in North Korea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished Barbara Demick&#8217;s Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.  I bought this precisely because I wanted a non-sensational account of life in North Korea.  I didn&#8217;t want to read about nuclear weapons or labor camps. In many respects, the handful of people Demick interviews do lead normal lives.  They go to [...]


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		<title>fourth of july&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate the Fourth of July, some of us got together to act American (i.e., be really loud) by shooting fireworks off the roof. We also ate hamburgers, chicken, potato salad, and beer!  And to make it even more American, I was able to squeeze in a fantasy baseball trade! But the Americanization was short [...]


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		<title>Balloons &#8212; DBSK / TVXQ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first saw this video by DBSK (동방신기) I was mortified.  I didn&#8217;t understand the mittens, the headbands, the ties, or the penguin back-up dancers. I still don&#8217;t understand it, but after several hundred viewings, I have completely succumbed to their saccharin smiles and cheesy dance moves. Similar to a Picasso or Liza Minelli [...]


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		<title>fat in Korea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to write about my fat-ness for a long time, but to be honest, there&#8217;s too much to write about and I get overwhelmed&#8230; When I came to Korea I was fat, I&#8217;ll admit it.  My last couple of years in America were not a vision of health.  But in the last 11 [...]


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		<title>death, holidays, and homesickness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My grandmother died this week. I had written a long post about the somewhat rocky relationship we had over the years&#8230; but my server went down and I lost it all (thank you God). I&#8217;m not going to re-write everything, but I will say that over the last year I was able to shed some [...]


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		<title>Korean Cabaret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Friend from the Philippines visited this weekend.  So, after a day at temple, we decided to walk through downtown Daegu.  Of course, something fun happened&#8230;  I got to see Cabaret performed in Korean, which is probably the next best thing to seeing Liza. It made me miss my good friend Tom, who never lets [...]


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		<title>mixing love &amp; war is sometimes inappropriate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a good day to be on Facebook&#8230; and it&#8217;s a good day to be one of the 16 allied nations that helped South Korea in their war with the North in 1950. If you are like me and from one of the allied nations of Turkey, Ethiopia, Thailand, Philippines, Belgium, New Zealand, Colombia, Luxembourg, [...]


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