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Return
So, I had to either sign a contract and send it with an application for employment to the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education... or I had to choose to go home. I am loath to sign something when my potential re-employer isn't committing its cyclopean self, so I elected to return home this summer ( Read more... ) -
"Realism" and Nihilism in Contemporary Fantasy
Okay, you lazy putzes. Because you guys are too preoccupied to actually look at my other blog, I figured I'd link my latest post, entitled "Realism" and Nihilism in Contemporary Fantasy. And since you're probably too lazy to click the link, I'll reproduce it below. Please leave comments on my blogspot entry if you're able, as opposed to here ( ( Read more... ) -
Why You Shouldn't Teach English in Korea
From some website ( Read more... ) -
Stuph
Planning on returning to the U.S. this summer. I've had it with Korea. Mostly, it's the homogeneity of the people here--they're far, far more homogeneous than the Japanese. But where the Japanese are rather ethnocentric, the Koreans are extremely racist. I mean, we're talking, approaching KKK-levels of racism, here. There's been an escalation ( Read more... ) -
Update of the Whatevertheheck
Since teaching History at an American high school is far better than what I'm doing now, and since the cutthroat politics of higher academia and the competition for tenure at even podunk nowhereville colleges is super-high thanks to the destructed economy, I've decided to get my M.Ed. (complete with certification ( Read more... ) -
Racism in Korea
Korea Activists Target Foreign English Teachers
Korea activists target foreign English teachers
A South Korea group uses the Internet and other means to track foreign teachers, in an effort to ferret out illegal or unsavory behavior. The teachers say they're victims of stalkers and rumors.
January 31, 2010|By John M. Glionna
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Beatles & Manson Family in Buffy? It's more likely than you think!
Caught this at then end of Episode 11, Season 1 of Buffy. Know what that is? That's right, the lyrics to "Happiness is a Warm Gun" by the Beatles. Reference to radical cult leader in the chapter heading + Beatles reference = Manson family reference. Joss Whedon, you are a genius.
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