What the video does not show is that the special guest and entertainment for Font Conference 08 was Towa Tei and Kylie Minogue.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 12:24 PM on July 22, 2008

Grace Jones can swallow my soul because then maybe I'll become part of her and with the other souls she's devoured coursing through her veins we will be happy to power the crazy scary fashion warmachine plowing through the desolate landscape of a earth long destroyed hopelessly seeking for more to consume.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 7:09 PM on July 15, 2008

I know I'm not THAT old, but strangely anything that happened to me between the ages of 9 and 14 all kind of blend together...anyway, I vaguely remember reading in a Korean gaming mag around that time about a book that was released in Japan where the author took a super serious look at what would happen in the real world if the physics and technology of in anime and manga were made a reality with real world physics. Sort of like a Zombie Survival Guide for manga/anime. One of the fun tidbits... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 8:48 AM on May 16, 2008

The man was simply gorgeous.

I loved him most in Danger: Diabolik. Eva, that lucky bitch.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 7:59 AM on May 15, 2008

I can go ... into a supermarket and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can cut my hair.
I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys and children's magazines featuring people of my race.
...

Not limited to white people.

I don't know if I'm confusing what you mean by "not limited to white... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 4:17 PM on April 17, 2008

Until rather recently, more than one half of all people in the United States were non-Hispanic whites. Of course it makes economic sense to cater to them—they're everywhere.

Well if you read what I wrote further, I said that that the economic viability of who you market to might be something to take into account, since if you have a mostly white neighborhood, why would you sell TCB activator gel? So sure, you can't expect all businesses to cater to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 5:02 PM on April 17, 2008

Where in the U.S. does it make sense to have vast assortments of "ethnic" food? Not everywhere.
Where in the U.S. does it make sense to have vast assortments of "white people" food? Not everywhere, but close.

Ah, I see. Well, thank you, oaf, for coming back and clearing that up. So I understand that what you're just trying to say that yes, it's not feasible to have everything for everyone everywhere? Then maybe you... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 9:54 AM on April 18, 2008

Attacking how I phrased something doesn't attack my argument. Try harder, perhaps?

Maybe I'm not attacking your argument and instead your phrasing because your phrasing doesn't really argue anything? There needs to be a substance to what you're saying for me to argue it. I wasn't trying to attack your argument because I couldn't understand what the hell you were arguing in the first place and was trying to figure out what you were trying to say. And... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 2:23 PM on April 18, 2008

I was so turned off by it that I couldn't go through with it. It would just seem like having sex with a kid to me.

This might seem like a derail and not to seem like I'm picking on you donkeymon, but Jesus not this argument again. Look, I know guys have their preferences just like girls do and if someone thinks a girl with no hair down there looks like a kid or they assume an overly groomed girl is superficial or probably a slut, whatever, that's your... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 10:37 AM on April 5, 2008

I hate to split more hairs when I'm in fact addressing the splitting of hairs, but with all due respect IRFH, but I thought it was pretty obvious my "all" in that statement was hardly blaming all men, I was talking specifically about the guys I was addressing in this thread who felt such a need to defend their follicle loving to unnecessary degree, so while your "some" clarification is appreciated, in the flow of reading my post that really wasn't what I meant.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 3:50 PM on April 5, 2008

...was that perhaps it would be better to suggest that the Chasuk's of the world need to learn some tact rather than to assert that their preferences don't actually matter...

Which is what I was trying to say. That people's preferences are that. It's not that their preferences don't matter but they need to realize that their preferences are just that. Theirs. I feel like you're reading a bit more into my explanations as being dismissive of all opinions... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 11:30 PM on April 5, 2008

And sorry to bring your name into this again, Chasuk, but I was just quoting to try and clarify. I'm not trying to pick on people here.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 11:36 PM on April 5, 2008

LOLJOURNALISTS?
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 8:31 AM on March 10, 2008

*runs in* I love seeing artists' workspace to get some kind of glimpse into how they work (I'm especially a sucker for those "step-by-step-here's-how-I-draw" images), but, oh, sweet Jesus, this is so awesomely fanboy voyeurtastic since I love, loooooooooove Allred and Immonen. That is all I have to contribute to this.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 6:31 AM on March 9, 2008

Whoever did Musto's makeup did a damn better job than whoever was in charge of Lindsay's.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 11:00 AM on March 5, 2008

Oh, as in what I like to call "last month"? (yea...I'm single by the way)
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 11:05 AM on February 27, 2008

I love a man who can intelligently explain what video format he prefers to convert his homemade porn into. *pulls on anime wig and Comic Con shirt*
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 8:46 PM on February 12, 2008

Pink: Yea, but it's even BETTER if you ignore everyone else by reading a book under that fedora.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 8:47 PM on February 12, 2008

Eh, I'm not an indie girl, and maybe it's a double standard about body image for guys vs. girls since I'm not exactly a wafer thin chick myself...but I just wanted to say I dated a guy who was like 6'1"-6'2" and weighed between 135-140. I don't necessarily prefer super skinny guys over any other type of guys just because they're skinny, but I'm going to admit...I found him pretty damn hot. Like "can't keep hands off of type of hot." I hardly think it was because I was afraid... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 1:20 PM on February 7, 2008

They're not on Youtube anymore?? All of them or is it just Malmsteen??? Oh man, the one with Santana, particularly the guy with the snare drums and the keyboardist doot-doot-doot-ing The Final Countdown, had me crying.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 9:04 AM on February 5, 2008

Bah, I always mess up at least one link. "In the snow" should link here.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 8:54 PM on January 31, 2008

Yea, what cazoo said. Korean cultural lexicon has a lot of American cultural references, especially superheroes.

Sure, I used to watch Flashman when I was a kid and still remember the theme song as well as many of my friends. Some kids were in the Bio Man camp, so yea there were dubbed Japanese mask men type shows in the late 80s-early 90s, but it wouldn't make sense in this context of "female superhero" since Koreans are familiar with American superheroes.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 10:10 PM on January 31, 2008

Needled: I fully expect a Kim Wan Sun post with commentary on how she looks either really mad or really stoned all the time. I promise to follow up with And since I mentioned hallyu, the onus is now upon you to create a Yonsama fpp (you know you want to!). I'd like that on my desk byyyy....Monday. kthxbai.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 7:58 AM on February 1, 2008

Oh snap! I'm gonna make some "Stop Spyin'" t-shirts to look just like the "Stop Snitchi'" ones and sell it to these people. I'm gonna be rich!!!
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 9:24 AM on January 25, 2008

"Stop Snitchin'" I mean -_-;.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 9:25 AM on January 25, 2008

These types of games usually offend me not because of content, but because they start out with an interesting idea then turn a meh on execution. If they'd create some well-designed characters fighting-style wise with a better look into the different deities/characters they can use, it'd be so much fun. Instead I start it up, see the 5-6 characters with one or two lackluster and generic "haha, it's tongue-in-cheek (no it's not)" moves and I get all disappointed. cross reference my... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 3:56 PM on January 23, 2008

Ha, this just reminds me how when I was a kid I wanted to learn how to play the gayagum really bad for some reason and my mom thinking it was the most ridiculous thing she ever heard. Her exact reason for dissuading me was to half-jokingly say, "Only gisaengs play the gayagum, I have no idea why you'd want to learn how to play that when you could just take piano lessons like everyone else." (Interestingly, I just saw that the subtitles say that the gayagum team is from a women's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 10:03 AM on January 20, 2008

needled: I particularly enjoy the director's reasoning behind making "Untold Scandal." I think the effort to do fusion with gugak is sort of an attempt to breath new life or interest into something that people tend to think of as just soundtrack to traditional films or something fringe that only hardcore traditionalists like people from Cheonghakdong would be interested in or something. It's kind of an awkard catch-22 for traditional Korean music where people either want it to remain... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 10:39 AM on January 20, 2008

This is why I watch Top Gear on BBC-A. Like, ALL THE TIME. It doesn't matter if it's a rerun and I jus happen to catch it while channel surfing. I will stop everything to watch it. And I know absolutely nothing about cars. Unfortunately, all this show helped doing is make me want to drive ridiculous cars. The episode with the Capt. Slow driving the Bugatti Veyron had me mesmerized.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 10:53 AM on January 15, 2008

I'm sorry, curious as to whether this "creatively-impoverished aping of foreign stuff" is meant to be said in a good way or a bad way. I, for one, was relieved to hear people like Drunken Tiger and CB Mass bring something different to Korean rap when compared to the really bad rapping you'd hear in the pop music scene with horrible English. People who had lived in America listening to rap and getting what it meant to have a beat and to rhyme would come back to Korea and do their own... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 10:44 AM on January 15, 2008

I half expected that the whole thing would conclude with:

"...The internet is expanding more and more into everyday life, and with sites like YouTube and Facebook comes an undercurrent of internet culture slowly rising to the surface of the average user. With artifacts like LOLCats and YTMND leading the way, it will not be long before we will be encouraged to move in with our aunts and uncles who happen to live in a more affluent neighborhood. I whistled for a cab... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 9:29 AM on January 14, 2008

You know, for the longest time I had no idea about what to do of the reproductions of Dürer's woodcuts depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Woman Clothed With the Sun and the Seven-headed Dragon that I purchased a while back. I wanted to hang them up, but I always thought, "No, no. Something's missing." Well now I know what that something is. Though I'm slightly disappointed they don't have the dude with the flute up his butt. He would've lent a certain special spark... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 12:51 PM on December 10, 2007

Effin' Liefeld. I have not been keeping up with comics as of late, but I do have to admit, like in one of the articles linked upthread, that I liked Cable back in the day. I thought he was badass. Maybe that was the initial appeal, it was like a collective explosion of "holy shit, this is badass" orgasm of 12 to 13-year-olds boosted by the onset of unbalanced hormones from puberty, but then once they adjusted to puberty they started realizing how utterly ridiculous it all ways.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 10:10 AM on November 30, 2007

"We'd like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loud."

Woooooooowwww...when I visited London this year I actually did wonder if talking was not allowed on the Tube or something. I was discussing this with another tourist I'd befriended about how preternaturally quiet it was and we worried we were being rude by talking at all (not even loudly mind you). We eventually reasoned that we were just more... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 11:19 AM on November 26, 2007

Yea...I don't know if you're trying to jumpstart interest in The Wyoming Project ARG with this FPP or something, but yea, sorry to burst your bubble whether you are or not. That video is actually part of an alternative reality game. Or at least was part of. When I checked last a while ago, the Cubing Forum connected to it seemed to still be active, but I don't know what direction that game is going anymore. They were following it pretty hardcore on Something Awful as well, but didn't they end... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 7:53 PM on November 22, 2007

I think I may actually try this. I've never been on a blind date before. But I wish I had a single or insane enough friend who'd be willing to do this with because I admit, I'm kind of scared. I guess as long as I don't set the date parameters as "4 a.m., by the docks" I'll be ok? Guys?
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 3:16 PM on November 7, 2007

Well, now I'm signed up for it. Ha, we'll see how this goes.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 5:56 PM on November 7, 2007

If you are a single male, between the ages of 22 and 29, in the NYC area and are participating in this or have been cultivating fantastic facial hair...well, let me just say we have MefiMail now.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 9:48 PM on November 1, 2007

I'm just popping in here to say that as a young girl, when I first started getting "crushes" on boys, one of my first childhood crushes wasn't on Rio, Jem's boyfriend or any New Kids on the Block...it was Snake Eyes. He was damn sexy in my prepubescent eyes. I'd imagine I'd be on some dangerous mission and I'd get captured only to have Snake-Eyes come rescue me and he'd just look at me with those piercing eyes and even though he'd never say a word everything would be all right and I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 1:46 PM on November 1, 2007

Well, since everyone already beat on the OP, here's an installment from "a webcomic I like, but unfortunately it's not in English":

Dorothy Band (index). It recently ended its run, but was awesome stuff. Great artwork and character design, lots of physical comedy. It was the Wizard of Oz, but if Dorothy and friends got together to create a band, and they head on their way to visit the Oz label to get a record deal from the Wizard. Going to be released in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 11:01 AM on November 1, 2007

MUSTACHES!!!!!! I love facial hair so hard.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 6:54 PM on October 31, 2007

Not pumpkin, but while we're on the subject of specialty beers that are fitting for the changing weather: kindly heads up that Brooklyn Brewery's Black Chocolate Stout is back again for this year so y'all better stock up before they run out. And they do.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 1:29 PM on October 19, 2007

Whoa, whoa...what, no celebrity anal beads?
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 7:53 PM on October 4, 2007

HEIGHTS REPRESENT!!!!....with musical score and jazz hands!
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 9:08 AM on October 4, 2007

Just to throw it out there, because I'm hoping someone does (or did) this and will let me know how it went, but I've always maintained that combining the Zombie Survival Guide with World War Z would make for an excellent tabletop RPG sourcebook with minimal adaptation.

It'd be just like a Shadowrun sourcebook where in the beginning the World War Z half provides background and draws in you in with a bit of story (like the whole chat exchange between the folks of Chicago... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 11:38 AM on September 24, 2007

Artw and Moonbiter: Yes, those do look interesting, but I wasn't saying there aren't games out there dealing with the undead. Unless I'm missing something from what I read on those sites, what I meant was it'd be interesting to use the characters and stories specifically from Max Brooks' works. And even more specifically what I was trying to say is that it's pretty interesting how the informative and serious way that Brooks treats his subject in The Zombie Survival Guide, then the varied... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 1:43 PM on September 24, 2007

Epaksa's styling of electronic ponchak is reminescent of the type of music not very highly regarded thanks to its reputation as music favored by truck drivers and bus tours, usually of low-quality with a lot of electronic sounds and sold dirt cheap on casettes at rest stops. And the genre of trot already has its own share of issues because things can get political thanks to its possible relationship to Japanese enka. Interestingly enough, Epaksa tried to target and gain success in the Japanese... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 5:11 PM on September 5, 2007

Yea, I buried a bunch of links in this. The documentary is actually linked to by "cult favorite."
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 6:16 PM on September 5, 2007

Well, at the risk of seeming like I'm moderating my own thread, I wanted to chime in that I happen to like trot. Or maybe it's more truthful to say that I find it charming. I'm not a big fan so that I buy tapes and tapes of it to listen to, but it is great fun to sing and I do think it's an interesting aspect of Korean music that doesn't get highlighted as much outside of Korea exactly because of the proliferation of pop boy/girl groups in the mainstream, which is why I sort of made this whole... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 7:50 AM on September 6, 2007

OMG!!! Thank you so much for posting this! I remembered seeing him on TV as a kid and a little while back he had come up in a conversation and I was trying to explain him to my friend but couldn't because he'd never seen or heard of him before. It drove me nuts. All I knew was it had "man" somewhere in it but all my google permutations with helpful descriptors wouldn't bring him up. Thank you thank you!

(Just to explain why Rollerman came up in a conversation:... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 12:12 PM on August 14, 2007