Ruminations in Korea

From that controversial, satirical, and funny online “news” magazine, The Onion:

Delta Blues Poised For Biggest Revival Since 1915

September 28, 2005 | Issue 41-39

NEW ORLEANS?Blues historians report that Delta blues, an early blues form that arose in the Mississippi Delta region, is poised for its biggest revival since 1915. “Death, loss, heartbreak, isolation, hard luck, that’s what the blues have been missing for decades,” said music critic Joel Kushner. “But now, even the most sheltered, derivative Delta blues musician should have enough material to cut an album.” The revival is heralded by the recent singles “FEMA Don’t Come ‘Round No More,” “Category Five Woman Done Me Six Kinds Of Wrong,” and “Talkin’ Drownded Kin Blues.”

Message from a Korean friend about a trip to Carribean Bay water park explaining this picture:

Look at this!!! I have never seen anything like this!
Cool! It’s a self-service gas pump.
You actually put the gas in by yourself and pay for it right there at the pump.
It’s even a little bit cheaper.
Isn’t that amazing???

Ummm.. yeah.. uhh.. awesome…Koreans think of everything! That might catch on in America soon!
Just wait until the first time is 25 below Zero in the middle of a white-out blizzard and they have to pump their own gas while the dropout loser laughs at you from inside the warm, dry store because your bare hand has frozen to the pump and you have to scrape ice out of the credit card slot. THEN they will yearn for the good old days of full service stations.