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Close Game 2007-12-28 10:10:54 There I was, in double overtime, down by two points. Rush is well guarded. Chalmers hands the ball off to Robinson for a wide open 3. He misses it. Kaun grabs the rebound and calls time out with 4.7 left on the clock. He’s been getting blocked all night inside. Too risky to put it back up. I pass it in to Rush, who drives, then kicks it out to a wide open Case in the corner. He buries the triple as time runs out. The Kansas Jayhawks stay undefeated. Quite an exciting game I played last night against Boston College. I’m a few games ahead of the real KU in my season. I’m of course talking about the video game College Hoops 2K8, but stay with me. If I was watching this game in real life, I probably would have shit my pants. KU was down by 3 in regulation, and Rush sends it t Read more:Close
Bracket bust (and Daejeon trip) 2008-03-19 12:22:00 I’ve been writing some form of my bracket takes, via mass email then blog, for a long time now. Every year since 2003, in fact. Prior to that, I lived in Lawrence, so I basically talked to or saw everyone I talked hoops with every single day anyway, so there wasn’t much need for the inter-tubes. This year, it looks like the trend will end. I got nothin. I’ve been away too long, and I can’t even pretend to know what’s going on in college hoops anymore. I’ll still submit a bracket, of course, but I don’t even know which teams in the Midwest region I should be scared of this year. I’ve seen a total of one game on TV since 2006 - KU-Southern Illinois online last year. I think CBS is running the first 3 rounds online again, so I’ll watch any KU games I can, dependent o Read more:Bracket
Singapore 2008-03-26 12:09:06 Various random notes on my recent (though not that recent, I started this a while ago) Singapore
trip...Singapore Air is fucking awesome. My new favorite airline, with a bullet. Arrested Development, the Office, Ali G, Corner Gas, Scrubs, other cool shit like that, all on demand. Plus, Mario 1. My flight to Singapore was 6 hours long, I was on less than 4 hours sleep, and I lucked out with a row to myself, yet I didn’t nap at all, because there was simply too much TV to watch. I’d honestly consider flying Singapore Air to some random city for no good reason and returning the same day, just because the entertainment is that good. I checked into my hostel (yeah, sucks to stay in hostel when you’re damn near 30, but hotels in Singapore are really expensive, and there’s no dirt-c
Rock Chalk! 2008-04-02 12:36:28 By the way, contrary to popular opinion (at ESPN, SI, CBS, even the KC Star), you can see clearly here that Kansas WON the game, not that Davidson lost it. I hated every second of this game other than the last one. But, just to be clear, and the video shows this, Curry didn't give up the ball at the end because he was scared to take it, he gave up the ball because of the suffocating defense of Rush and Collins. Curry never had a chance at the shot, nor did the other guy who actually missed. I didn't realize this at the time and thought we got lucky, but after watching the replay 15 or 20 times, it wasn't luck. The shot had no chance. Also, this was a tough, tough game. Everyone said KU got lucky to play a 10 seed. Bullshit. I would have much rather seen Wisconsin, we'd have beaten Read more:Chalk
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11 Up! 2008-04-19 12:05:19 I'm an 11-up junkie. Enough of one, in fact, to write about it, rather than my trip to Busan last weekend. Busan, by the way, is a coastal Korean city that I've been to three times now, maybe 11 minutes of that time sober, and a city chock full of drunks, Russian mafioso types, whores, and apparently legal fireworks. It's never boring, yet I'm choosing to write about 11-up. That, and the thing I wrote about Busan is fucking terrible and I don't want to post it. For the un-indoctrinated, 11-up is one of these horrible touch screen games that polute the barscape of America. I used to play trivia and Run-21, but I was introduced to 11-up by Matt-toast in the year 2000 or so. I've since spent roughly $93,000 on the game, and I am number one on countless machines in no fewer than 27 state
Champs 2008-04-21 14:55:37 I've been trying to put into words how it felt, being in Lawrence for the first time in six years, when the Jayhawks took the title. I've written and re-written this thing three times, and it just doesn't do it justice. But, this video is pretty close, taken at Allen Field House. I still get a little teared up when watching it. This is why we are fans. Read more:Champs
This and that 2008-05-01 12:30:41 It’s been 3 weeks, but still not a day has gone by that I haven’t thought about the Kansas Basketball Jayhawks. I watched the latter part of the game again last night, starting from Roses’s non-3. And yes, I still got pretty fucking nervous about it, and yes, I did audibly cheer Chalmers’ shot. If you haven’t seen it yet (today), scroll down, it’s on this page a couple times. I saw an interesting ajoshi drama the other day. Ajoshis are middle aged Korean men. It’s a word to describe all of them, but amongst foreigners, the word has a different connotation. When we think ajoshi, we think middle-aged guy in a suit passed out on the street, or middle aged guy hocking a loogie, or middle aged guy in full hiking regalia to climb a mountain that takes somebody as horribly ou
sparkle sparkle 2008-05-08 11:58:24 For those of you who don’t know (likely most anybody reading this), the tourism marketing slogan for Korea has been “Korea: Sparkling,” for the last year or so. Presumably, like so many local Asian T-shirts, the actual meaning of this slogan has been lost on its makers, and left as a source of endless ridicule and comedy amongst the English-as-a-first-language crowd. Sparkling, of course, has two potential meanings: shiny and glittery in some way, or amazingly clean. Korea is many things, but shiny or clean are not amongst them. This is a country that doesn’t think to put trash cans anywhere, with the logical end result of litter everywhere. And shiny? Josef Stalin would consider 99.99% of the buildings here a bit too drab for his tastes. “Korea: Sparkling” makes about
Festivals (Part One) 2008-05-12 15:32:37 So, I thought I'd be kind of interesting to keep track of how many Festivals I have, and will submit You Can't Outrun Bullets to, and this seems like as good of any place to do it.First Mailing.Chicago Film BrigadeChicago Underground Film FestivalMilwaukee International Film FestivalArtists Television Access in CaliforniaThree Rivers Film Fest in PittsburghCAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE FEST in Ch
(Small Market) Korean Baseball 2008-05-14 12:19:58 My first Korea baseball game (which you can read about on my old myspace blog),was the LG (Seoul) Twins vs, the Kia (Gwangju) Tigers. My buddy Don was cheering for LG full force, but I ultimately ended up rooting for Kia for a couple reasons. As a Royals/Cubs fan, I’m saddled with plenty of baseball ineptitude, and Don tried to sell me on LG because the are the “Cubs of the K-League,” ie, Read more:Small
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Walking Uphill 2008-05-19 09:30:58 I’m not really one for hiking on mountains (or, as I call it, walking uphill), but I had to hit up Wolchlsan, in the southern portion of the peninsula. Mainly, because there’s a kickass suspention bridge two thirds of the way up, which you can see in the picture below if you click on it. A bridgeless Peak that I had no desire to summit Like Hall and Oates said, so close, yet so far away. Th Read more:Walking
I wouldn't use the word "Doctor" 2008-05-21 16:27:25 So, I finally did it. I went to the dentist. As I expected, it went a little something like this. Dentist: So, when was the last time you’ve been to the dentist?Me: Well…I don’t wanna lie. It’s been 4 years. Dentist: Wow. Four years. Why so long? Me: Just graduated college, didn’t have insurance…Dentist: That’s not a good excuse. Me: Yeah, I know.Dentist: You know, you shou Read more:Doctor
Beach 2008-05-26 10:19:29 On my second consecutive 3 day weekend, I headed to the beach. Koreas’s east coast (on the East Sea, or as you may know it, the Sea of Japan) is supposed have some of the most beautiful beaches in the 4 distinct-season enjoying world. At least according to Korea, which also calls its Jeju island (on the same latitude as Oklahoma) “The Hawaii of Korea.” Both claims, of course, are false. Read more:Beach
Serious Business 2008-06-14 11:53:05 I pretty much decided when I renewed my contract last year that I would spend 6 months fucking off and trying (occasionally) to learn Korean. After that, I would spend the next 6 months, you know, trying to figure out what the hell I’m doing with my life, or at least what the hell I’m doing with January, 2009. Somehow, that second 6 months is starting in a couple weeks, when I’ll have to b Read more:Business
Major Douchbag 2008-06-15 04:22:24 I'm about as douchy as they come at this particular moment. I'm writing on my laptop, at Starbucks. The only thing that could up the douchy quotient would be an iPod touch, flip flops, and a Harvard t-shirt. Whoops, check, check, and check. I kick ass. Read more:Major
Tour This 2008-07-09 11:57:50 I love Chicago in the summer, but man, I hate all the fucking tourists it brings. And, I want to be crystal clear in my definition of tourist here, because I like to travel, I know you like to travel, and this is what separates us from them. You might be a tourist if you have 5 of the 10 following qualities:1. Tourists wait in line for Garretts popcorn. Long lines. It’s popcorn. One tub co
Birthday That 2008-07-26 15:21:28 In honor of Dr. Kickass now being in the rock star death age, and for the sake of stealing jokes and getting back on the blog horse, I'll share what I did on each July 25th (or thereabouts).1981 - Stopped being an only child, moved down a peg in my parents' esteem.1982 - dreaded the impending move to Lawrence, as I had three girlfriends at the time. Plus, they were like 9 or 10, and I was 4, so I Read more:Birthday
Birthday This 2008-07-25 11:50:24 I will now try to dive back into my memory and share with you what happened on each year’s July 25th. 1981 – I was born. That was cool. 1982 – I think I said the word “Key.” I was trying to unlock some shit. 1983 – I had to up and move to Kansas from the home I made in Illinois. Lost all my friends. Broke up with my girlfriend. It was rough. I was two.1984 – Grew my hair out. Read more:Birthday
Korean Randomness and more Olympics 2008-08-15 09:23:32 First off, a couple pictures from walking around in SeoulThose are always the best. Why haven't I been to this bar?Nothing says Sicilian like sweet potato (the yellow stuff around the edges), mayonnaise, and, as always, corn.Now, on to the Olympics
. There are good and bad aspects of watching the Olympics in Korea. Due to my lack of knowledge in the local language, I don’t know the tumultuous Read more:Korean
Olympics: Good 2008-08-10 03:02:08 I love the Beijing Olympics
so far, despite the fact that they kept me from visiting Beijing. I love seeing the events live, which I haven’t in forever. The Korean announcers kick ass. Every local announcer is biased, but the Korean announcers cheer and celebrate openly on air like a high school broadcasting team. It’s awesome. Imagine Bob Costas cheering out loud at a US win - that’s
Leavin Town 2008-08-21 09:44:40 I’m off again. Back on the road. I know it seems it’s all I ever do, but I’m still pretty excited about this trip. First, I’m going back to the BKK, then jetting off to Malaysia for 5 days as well. Flights to Bangkok were amazingly cheap last minute (don’t get me wrong, any air ticket out of Korea is a huge rip-off, but one must pay a huge premium to leave this Indiana-sized country.
Somebody owes me whiskey 2008-09-25 09:11:59 Airport security, in case you haven’t been paying attention, is completely absurd. The goals are utterly reactive, always trying to fight yesterday’s threat, and the methods for checking said threats are spotty at best. So far as I know (and TSA-wise, I’m a bit out of the loop) the newest wrinkle is still the liquids thing, due to the attempted terrorist threat in London just over two year Read more:Somebody
Jae Hak's Summer vaction part 2 - Bankock Boozing 2008-09-16 02:45:29 I returned to Bangkok. When I left Bangkok a few days before for Malaysia, I was road weary, sans camera, and a little hungover. Upon landing and having a shocking 3rd easy run through what I had thought was a horrible airport, I was ready to rock. I returned to the same hostel (I knew I wasn’t going to need a comfortable or even private place to stay after 5 days of being rejuvenated on the Read more:Summer
7 or 8 near-Deaths in Southest Asia (1 of 2) 2008-09-11 14:46:36 I’m a little late in putting this up - been spending far too much time on searching the internets for election-related stories, and of course fantasy football. Since this is a “sports” blog, i really should write about my fantasy draft, though sadly I was unable to attend as I was somewhere in Southeast Asia
when it occurred. Of course, this resulted in me scoring my best opening game in y
Fun Web Searches for Our Site 2008-10-10 16:36:54 So, I just recently (like, an hour ago) found a way to look at some stats for our lovely blog. There are a list of key words that people search for, and it shows you how many times somebody clicked on our google search link. The biggest traffic we get? People looking up the diggery do. Go ahead. Search for it. We are the number 3 slot that comes up. And if you search digger do instrument, w
Economy Minus 2008-10-08 13:34:56 So, I’ve had a couple good adventures the last couple of weeks. The Saturday before last, I:woke up to a text from a buddy telling me a girl that I thought was a lost cause dug me stumbled upon and attended a K1 kickboxing eventsomehow lost my camera at that same event, or in a taxi, while sober - that's #4 got news from the same buddy that he’d miss the evening’s bar plans, as Read more:Minus
노래방 파이팅! 2008-09-30 23:49:27 Every now and again, a normal night out at the bar turns epic. You know this. The change can be shocking. Last Friday, I was at my usual haunt with the usual crowd, ordering my usual drinks from the usual bartenders, and chatting up the same questionable blonde girl that I see at the usual bar every single time I go there. She is, to some extent, a human B.A.C. machine, commencing conversation
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