A young child with long blonde hair is gleefully tromping through a field of bright flowers. Text overlay reads:
“FUCK YOU,
FLOWERS
how does it feel to
get kicked right in the face?”
Book is “A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present” by Michael J. Seth, 2nd. edition (2016). It’s very well-put-together and is incredibly fascinating. The Neolithic stuff at the beginning of the first chapter ("The Origins") starts out a bit dull (kind of by necessity), but I was hooked by Chapter 2 ("The Period of the Three Kingdoms, Fourth Century to 676"). Genuinely fantastic and now one of my favorite nonfiction books I’ve ever read. (I made the mistake of not reading the Appendix on hangul romanization until very late into the book; don’t make my mistake if you read it too and don’t know hangul.)
I think this is the only place I can really talk about it. I’m a major UFC fan, that said, I don’t think we should have had an event at the whitehouse…. Card and fights were great but the amount of cringing and awkward laughs was immeasurable. I can’t believe it really happened, its a joke, not even a funny one.
I’ve made a couple of disgusting posts with no explanation because they were funny, but I gotta come clean with this one - I live like a bit of a pig, yes, but I also work as a maintenance man for a local housing authority, and regularly encounter some fairly rank situations. Some of them are due to regular poor housekeeping, some mental illness, and some because of addiction. All of them are interesting, I think.