I am an American
“But your special, you’re not like the others I have met.” Yes I really am I am the exactly same man, my life is no different than any one else’s I went to the same public schools I worship the same Eurocentric god, and I vote the same essentially as everyone ells,”But your different, I can talk to you about things and you listen”. Sure but have you really talked to one of us? Really? My life has been a times extraordinarily dramatic I could give Jerry Springer some pointers I grew up poor and from a broken home much like most of us in the states my education dose not reflect my own fictitious intellect I get loud I get in fights I think Sadam should be put to death, and when it comes down to brass tacks there wasn’t any one willing or able to achieve this goal. So we did. I live hear in Korea surrounded by a wide array of people from the English speaking world and I am often puzzled while everyone seems quite enamored with me I am confused just who are the Americans to which they are referring to when the anti-American stuff comes out? I wonder how history will view the war which we are presently perusing will we be forced out by own or will Iraq flourish and grow powerful and free contributing to the world? Will we still be hated in twenty five years? Well yes probably. I am presently living in a country that in the very near past was a concord people occupied by the Japanese and used for recreation and slaves. Now fifty years later they are an economic powerhouse that enjoys the 12th highest standard of living in a free democracy and their grand children are protesting Americans at every turn while their grand parents still remember what life was like ,when they were used for medical experiments. And we sent our children here to die. It is much the same with most of the European world that hates us as well. While I am not a fan of policing the world it is the world who more often than not has requested our assistance or by the simple act of neglect has forced us to act in this fashion. When left to their own devices the European Union would do nothing even while Kosovo was racially cleansed sounds a lot like the begging of world war two. Yes we have made a mess of some things is quite apparent to me that we fill the roll of social whipping dog and simultaneously allow the rest of the world to have clean hands and feel morally superior .
Like I said before I am an American I am just the same as the millions of American around the world I maybe self righteous, ignorant, unable or unwilling to use the spellchecker. But this who I am, and apart from an accent I really don’t see that much difference from you.
(White Trash is slang for disparaging and offensive remarks to members of the class of poor whites, especially in the southern U.S.A. or poor whites collectively and contemptuously, to white people in general.)
HOMO'S ON PARADE
Friday, December 01, 2006
Friday, November 24, 2006
All right there is a time in our lives when we must confront our demons and look in to the eyes of nature and face what we most fear. for me I like to think of my self a relatively fear less well as much as any strong healthy man of a reasonable intellect and physical prowess. Unfortunately destiny has found me and I have been shaken to the core! as you travel the world you tend to here stories legends if you will (Big foot , Locnes Monster , Yeti , Ladies night) never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that once in Korea I would come face to face with the nightmare of my dreams and consequentiality stumble and fall so miserably . now realizing my human frailty I have come to the epiphany that yes I to am an imperfect human, while realizing that has humbled my self but I am not sure that I am better for the encounter.
I mean what the fuck is Troy supposed to do with this, a fucking Squatter!! Dam I am so screwed! I miss San Diego so much, what kind of barbaric backwards country takes a poop like this!
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Nick was here now he gone.
My friend Nick was fired a couple weeks ago, I think. He had a profound impact on the life I live today. The relationship between nasty and me can often be quite complicated. I was blessed to have a rather simple, yet powerful, relationship with my friend and because I believe that at troy n-exile. We have created a community of friends, not mere readers with little connection to my blog; I want to share the eulogy my Friend was a hard man to dislike , I found away.
I know it's common at a funeral to only remember the good things, to omit the things that would embarrass someone. In dirt’s case, the most remarkable thing that can be said is that there is good.
So let me start with the facts.
My Nick arrived in Korea about a week before, He was the second of three teachers hired around the same time -- Liz, Nick, and my self Troy being that he was in Korea and he was surround by bars . So it was natural that one day he would become a slobbering drunk himself. And one of my earliest memories is of my nick coming home with him and a collection of Avalon employees during world cup on we were all stumble drunk and we ran into a group of Koreans who were parting so with the standard” Day hamingo” we were fast friends so we stood there in the street trying to use broken Korean to communicate with our new friends when suddenly an ear piercing “YAHOOOOO!” emitted from our friend nick on that day we saw the first glimpses of the legend.
He went by many names: Nick, Dirty, Nasty, Knobby Knee Knick, Scary Nick, Handsome Nick, were just a few.
Most of you know he could drink like a sailor and while this was true most of you knew that if you could keep up with him then you were in for a treat either you had the time of your life walking around down town Suji singing tin lizzy songs or you could look forward to hours of lecturing from some one that wasn’t qualified to properly pronounce his name.
No matter. I'm told that if you were walking down the street when Nick was drunk, it would make good sense to run in the opposite direction. He didn't allow this handicap to hold him back.
He met the woman some one who I can’t remember, who would become down fall at the batman bar apparently she was getting married and wasn’t really interested in the whole event and felt nick was the man to help her out, boy was she wrong! After working on him for a short time .The soon to be groom felt that it was time for his betrothed to leave the strange and Handsome foreigner alone, after the staff asked him to leave he decided it was time to let them know how he felt he was retired from the batman bar at the age of 26 in 2006. 4:17 a.m. on July 14.
It's the simple bio of a simple and modest man.
But you don't measure the life of a man by simple facts, simply told.
It's been said that you measure it in the truths he learned, or in the times he cried, in the bridges he burned, or the way that he booted from good drinking establishments. In his 26 years, my friend learned much, if you drink soju in the wee hours, be careful who you talk to she may be getting married tomorrow
Here's what he learned:
He learned that a cold beer on a hot day is one of life's greatest pleasures. Nick was a beer drinker, and though he never met a beer he didn't like, he preferred Schaefer in the can. He loved a cold beer on a hot day as much he loved pretty much any alcohol Truth is, he loved a cold beer, a warm beer, on almost any day or night.
He learned that you should fill your life with music. Really crapy music from the early eighties like tin lizzy.
He learned to live life with optimism. Above all, he was an optimist. He loved to laugh. He loved to please. He was rarely, if ever, critical of people. He didn't have an unkind bone in his body. He filled his life with hope, even when there was little reason to hope. And for me, the optimism came in the form of encouragement -- I was encouraged to drink until I vomited.
He learned to live life, period. Do things. The more, the better. Nick did many things, but he especially loved one thing very much. Sujo
He learned that if you constantly harass Troy he will put on the internet acting like an ass.
And I remember these things as if we had done them all last weekend -- because we did them again and again and again and again, his outstretched hand. I remember my times with my friend as vividly every word, maybe because he constantly repeated him self.
He did that for me, and because he did, we will always travel together.
Nick, today your body is going to a place I'm not ready for. You'll have to go there alone. But I will join you some day, and I will look forward to that time when we can take those very long walks together only stopping at cheap bars.
Sleep warm, Nick. Sleep tight. Sleep well.
We love you. Always will.
Sucka fool
I know it's common at a funeral to only remember the good things, to omit the things that would embarrass someone. In dirt’s case, the most remarkable thing that can be said is that there is good.
So let me start with the facts.
My Nick arrived in Korea about a week before, He was the second of three teachers hired around the same time -- Liz, Nick, and my self Troy being that he was in Korea and he was surround by bars . So it was natural that one day he would become a slobbering drunk himself. And one of my earliest memories is of my nick coming home with him and a collection of Avalon employees during world cup on we were all stumble drunk and we ran into a group of Koreans who were parting so with the standard” Day hamingo” we were fast friends so we stood there in the street trying to use broken Korean to communicate with our new friends when suddenly an ear piercing “YAHOOOOO!” emitted from our friend nick on that day we saw the first glimpses of the legend.
He went by many names: Nick, Dirty, Nasty, Knobby Knee Knick, Scary Nick, Handsome Nick, were just a few.
Most of you know he could drink like a sailor and while this was true most of you knew that if you could keep up with him then you were in for a treat either you had the time of your life walking around down town Suji singing tin lizzy songs or you could look forward to hours of lecturing from some one that wasn’t qualified to properly pronounce his name.
No matter. I'm told that if you were walking down the street when Nick was drunk, it would make good sense to run in the opposite direction. He didn't allow this handicap to hold him back.
He met the woman some one who I can’t remember, who would become down fall at the batman bar apparently she was getting married and wasn’t really interested in the whole event and felt nick was the man to help her out, boy was she wrong! After working on him for a short time .The soon to be groom felt that it was time for his betrothed to leave the strange and Handsome foreigner alone, after the staff asked him to leave he decided it was time to let them know how he felt he was retired from the batman bar at the age of 26 in 2006. 4:17 a.m. on July 14.
It's the simple bio of a simple and modest man.
But you don't measure the life of a man by simple facts, simply told.
It's been said that you measure it in the truths he learned, or in the times he cried, in the bridges he burned, or the way that he booted from good drinking establishments. In his 26 years, my friend learned much, if you drink soju in the wee hours, be careful who you talk to she may be getting married tomorrow
Here's what he learned:
He learned that a cold beer on a hot day is one of life's greatest pleasures. Nick was a beer drinker, and though he never met a beer he didn't like, he preferred Schaefer in the can. He loved a cold beer on a hot day as much he loved pretty much any alcohol Truth is, he loved a cold beer, a warm beer, on almost any day or night.
He learned that you should fill your life with music. Really crapy music from the early eighties like tin lizzy.
He learned to live life with optimism. Above all, he was an optimist. He loved to laugh. He loved to please. He was rarely, if ever, critical of people. He didn't have an unkind bone in his body. He filled his life with hope, even when there was little reason to hope. And for me, the optimism came in the form of encouragement -- I was encouraged to drink until I vomited.
He learned to live life, period. Do things. The more, the better. Nick did many things, but he especially loved one thing very much. Sujo
He learned that if you constantly harass Troy he will put on the internet acting like an ass.
And I remember these things as if we had done them all last weekend -- because we did them again and again and again and again, his outstretched hand. I remember my times with my friend as vividly every word, maybe because he constantly repeated him self.
He did that for me, and because he did, we will always travel together.
Nick, today your body is going to a place I'm not ready for. You'll have to go there alone. But I will join you some day, and I will look forward to that time when we can take those very long walks together only stopping at cheap bars.
Sleep warm, Nick. Sleep tight. Sleep well.
We love you. Always will.
Sucka fool
Thursday, November 02, 2006
click here
It’s important to remember who is in charge here in Korea, it's not the government it's the man.
Companies here are god like Samsung runs everything kia makes cars apartment buildings and everything in between .this is an important thing to remember when you’re a hot to trot waygook with the world at your fingers ,a lesson Avalon teachers will now always remember .recently the cable/internet company server up a heaping helping of humility to you esteemed teacher troy as well as many other teachers ,now it is hard to find a teacher with the internet and we are all pissed but there is nothing we can do ,to be truthful it not really our fault Avalon has allowed us to take over existing accounts from other teacher that don’t live here any more. Consequently we would take over problems like paying strange bills and double payments. I was lucky the only problem I had was the bill wasn’t in my name so some times they wouldn’t let me pay. But by this time the company has had enough .so we all got shut off! Sweet now we are fighting a loosing battle to get turned back on. Well we will see.
Companies here are god like Samsung runs everything kia makes cars apartment buildings and everything in between .this is an important thing to remember when you’re a hot to trot waygook with the world at your fingers ,a lesson Avalon teachers will now always remember .recently the cable/internet company server up a heaping helping of humility to you esteemed teacher troy as well as many other teachers ,now it is hard to find a teacher with the internet and we are all pissed but there is nothing we can do ,to be truthful it not really our fault Avalon has allowed us to take over existing accounts from other teacher that don’t live here any more. Consequently we would take over problems like paying strange bills and double payments. I was lucky the only problem I had was the bill wasn’t in my name so some times they wouldn’t let me pay. But by this time the company has had enough .so we all got shut off! Sweet now we are fighting a loosing battle to get turned back on. Well we will see.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Up on The Soap Box With Troy (Stupid foreigners in Korea)
ok not that i haven’t had my share of good times here in Korea, but lets face it the greater majority of people here are here for one reason to experience a different culture, and expand their world view, yeah right they are here cause they couldn’t make it in the real world and they found a good excuse to prolong their child hood!!!!!!!!!! When your in a country the only thing that has changed is your physical location. so when you fucking idiots get here and find that your are maybe larger than most of the population that doesn’t make you a bad ass , your still the same guy that got your milk money stolen at school and just cause you speak English better than the average Korean doesn’t make you smarter than them. So when you walk around here thinking your special guesses what? YOUR NOT! Stop, take a look at you self you are representing your country your coworkers, and for that matter your race. and I am not talking about the fucking idiot co workers who sit out in front of there houses at 5 am and wake up all their neighbors or go on the roof and throwing stuff off (children’s toys, pieces of chairs or flick hundreds of cigarette butts all over and don’t clean up afterwards) I mean all of you .We go to Soule and there you are grabbing girls asses that you haven’t taking the time to learn to say hello to starting fights with guys who are half your size. have some composure! Unfortunately most white people are assumed to be Americans ,if you live here you know that’s not true but that’s not the point we (Waygooks)represent a culture, and it doesn’t include drunk asses who have no respect for other people ,at least I think so ! So, take your bad behavior back to what ever trailer park you hail fr0m and have some respect!
up on the soap box with Troy part dux
I wood like to take the time here to deviate from my usual deviations and talk about two concerns that have been on my mind lately. one i would like to address concerns about the north Korea nuke test and while this doesn’t have any thing to do with getting drunk or behaving badly on my part it is just to juicy , i find it more than just a little disconcerting that every Korean i talk to about this subject seems less than concerned "you have nothing to worry about." while this kind of things have been happing here for fifty years (north Korea acts up and the rest of the world just treats them like a pubescent teenage tantrum) this is a different world we live in ,we have already attacked one country for having "weapons of mass destruction" and while weather you think it is wrong or right it is real, we live in a time of heighten fear ,will they attack (U.S. or the terrorist ,now north Korea) will the sanctions be enforced what will happened next. This region is in the middle of a tug of war from the remaining supper powers and with china, Japan, and the us trying to call shots over here nothing good will come of it. maybe nothing will come of it ,maybe we will have an even bigger war , and maybe i will get stranded here in this country with the won completely devalued and work for free ,then again maybe the Koreans are right and it will just be fine.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
rocking in the free world
Hey Lee do you think if we work together we could get the mic from him? I don't know Ken he's pretty big maybe if we just smile and ignore him he’ll leave.
Chuseok day 2
after pissin off Koreans in Suwon I felt that it was time to slow down get out and see the sea so Julie ,ken ,lee ,Belinda, and my self took the bus to ilwangi(pronounced ul-wan-ghee) time in ready for some slow time at the beach ,little did I know that the slow time was going to be on the bus I made it there in just under five hours , you really don’t appreciate how the lives of the ilerated, illerated, pople who cant read ,I mean them’s who not so smart as me, really suck in the states ,but in Korea I am a drooling idiot when I get home I think I will volunteer some time in a reading program for adults or sum thin. well by the time I got there it was pitch black I was immediately served 3 shots and 3 beers and we all sat around bitching about the information desk and there crapy directions I guess it is time for me to buy a Korean dictionary! anyway we feasted on shell fish and drank more and for the first time I have been cut off ,I think well really I’m not sure but it doesn’t matter we made it to the beach for more drinks and fire works we met some new friends that we will never see again but I will post them on the blog anyways ,so after many drinks we did what any self respecting Waygook dose in Korea ,noirbang, what you dont know about the noir bang it karaoke only private you rent out small rooms(bangs Pronounced bong) and sing your heart out rock on ken or lee what ever your name is!!!!
Korea’s national treasures marginalized by forgivers
Who says we need to be politically correct drink up dragon boy!
Chuseok day 1
Chuseok, also sometimes spelt 'Chusok', is a major traditional holiday in Korea, celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the year. It is a thanksgiving feast and is also called Harvest Day, Harvest Moon Festival. Imagine mother’s day father’s day thanks giving and Halloween mixed together, let me explained
First it is a harvest festival for which we must eat special foods (thanks giving) next we must go through the traditional honoring of the ancestors by giving them their favorite food doc (pronounced duck) it a Korean rice cake made with gluttonous rice and pounded till gooey and formed onto half moon shapes and filed with sweet bean paste. Next we roll over to the grandparents and go and do some ritualized bowing for which we get paid cash and we through some sticks which the students had a hard time explaining to me? All and all a kick ass time where we get a week off from school and work and every thing is closed.
So with a week off I took some time to see one of Koreas national treasures Suwon fortress with two of my favorite middle school teachers Elaina and Melissa we spent a day trying to get mobbed by a large groups of angry Koreans as we made fun of the time less traditions and offered vodka to their dragon springs and imitated ancient scholars.
First it is a harvest festival for which we must eat special foods (thanks giving) next we must go through the traditional honoring of the ancestors by giving them their favorite food doc (pronounced duck) it a Korean rice cake made with gluttonous rice and pounded till gooey and formed onto half moon shapes and filed with sweet bean paste. Next we roll over to the grandparents and go and do some ritualized bowing for which we get paid cash and we through some sticks which the students had a hard time explaining to me? All and all a kick ass time where we get a week off from school and work and every thing is closed.
So with a week off I took some time to see one of Koreas national treasures Suwon fortress with two of my favorite middle school teachers Elaina and Melissa we spent a day trying to get mobbed by a large groups of angry Koreans as we made fun of the time less traditions and offered vodka to their dragon springs and imitated ancient scholars.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
I just realized that I take more pictures of my friend’s girlfriends
I just realized that I take more pictures of my friend’s girlfriends oh well sorry boys
Canucks and Brits and Yanks, oh my
Elaina’s birth day has come and gone. we went to Route 66 and then to the Tin Pan both are foreign bars in humday (I am sure I didn’t spell that right) but it was a night full of debauchery and we faired pretty well, except mat seem a few inches shorter, that’s all I will say if you want more info you will have to ask his wife.
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