Monster Island (actually a peninsula)*

Pearls of witticism from 'Bo the Blogger: Kushibo's Korea blog... Kushibo-e Kibun... Now with Less kimchi, more nunchi. Random thoughts and commentary (and indiscernibly opaque humor) about selected social, political, economic, and health-related issues of the day affecting "foreans," Koreans, Korea and East Asia, along with the US, especially Hawaii, Orange County and the rest of California, plus anything else that is deemed worthy of discussion. Forza Corea!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Hey, what gives?

Hey, Gerry! I said no Tokto crap! Anyway, your check bounced so give
me my blog back!

Sent from my iPhone

8 comments:

Leave it to BeversWednesday, April 01, 2009 1:32:00 PM
No way, 95. I've changed all the passwords. This baby's mine!
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nbWednesday, April 01, 2009 3:12:00 PM
Your blog now has a warning on it? Why?
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kushiboWednesday, April 01, 2009 5:11:00 PM
Ha, muther fucker! I figured out your password and I'm reclaiming my blog!

"hirobumismyhero"? Really, Bevers? Really?
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Leave it to BeversWednesday, April 01, 2009 8:43:00 PM
In your face, Kushido. You're one to talk about passwords. "iamsonagi"? That took me five seconds to crack. Now I've changed everything and there's nothing you can do about it!

Look, Kushido. You signed this over to me legally and this is mine now. This blog will be better off under my control. Admit it, you want this blog to be under my control. You have been silent about all my Dokdo posts and that silence is deafening: you know there is no arguing against my proof.
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AnonymousThursday, April 02, 2009 12:30:00 AM
Cool Jonathon, you are starting to really bend the neck of this blog and make in cry and sing. I like it, keep it up.
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kushiboThursday, April 02, 2009 3:39:00 AM
So the Blogger police came in and evicted your a@@, Bevers, and now I've got my blog back. The original Yonggary blog mast is down while it's being steam cleaned and returned to its original state.
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Leave it to BeversThursday, April 02, 2009 6:10:00 AM
This isn't over, 95! I'm taking this to the ICJ! You haven't heard the last of Gerry Bevers.

And you know what? That new logo is so gay? Pink? Is that your true colors, 95?
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kushiboThursday, April 02, 2009 6:27:00 AM
It's salmon, Gerry. And it's from the damn sunset.
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Pearls of witticism from 'Bo the Blogger: Kushibo's Korea blog... Kushibo-e Kibun...
Now with Less kimchi, more nunchi. Random thoughts and commentary (and indiscernibly opaque humor) about selected social, political, economic, and health-related issues of the day affecting "foreans" ("foreigners" in Korea be they kyopo or non-kyopo), Koreans, Korea and East Asia, along with the US, especially Hawaii, Orange County, and the rest of California, plus anything else that is deemed worthy of discussion. Forza Corea!

* Monster Island (actually a peninsula)

The name of this blog comes from a line in "Lisa on Ice," a beloved episode of The Simpsons, perhaps my all-time favorite television show (even though for several seasons there, it really did suck). Lisa is imagining being sworn in as president, but at the last minute, it is discovered that she failed P.E. (physical education) and she is thus "sentenced to a lifetime of horror" on Monster Island. "Don't worry," the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court confides in her, "It's just a name."

Fast forward to Lisa and other prisoners running in panic through a tropical jungle, chased by Godzilla-like creatures, including a monster turtle and a monster firefly.

"He said it was just a name!" Lisa screams to the man next to her. While he, too, runs for his life, the unidentified man calmly says, "What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a peninsula."

Anyway, I thought in some ways that punchline summed up modern-day Korea in a nutshell. For many people—foreigners and Koreans—the ups and downs and everyday travails of the Republic of Korea make it as precarious as a Monster Island would be (and with the DMZ being the only land border, it really is like an island). But it actually is a peninsula. Okay, it made sense in my head.

So as you can see, despite the hits I get from people looking for Japanese tentacle porn, it has nothing to do with anything salacious as that.