After the mysterious Joe Morgan (Barry Sullivan) starts working for ice skating magnate Frank Leonard, Joe suggests improvements to the skating show that stars Leonard’s wife, Roberta (Belita). Due to these ideas, Leonard promotes Morgan to a managerial position. However, Morgan soon starts trying to seduce Roberta as well. Once Leonard disappears in an avalanche, Roberta is left wondering whether he is alive or dead. She must also decide how much she can trust Morgan.
Check it out tonight @ 11PM CST on TCM or tomorrow morning @ 9AM CST on TCM. Check out the trailer below.
F. M. Laster
“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
The damaged denizens of Sin City return for another round of stories from the mind of Frank Miller. In “Just Another Saturday Night,” Marv (Mickey Rourke) struggles to recall a nasty run-in with some frat boys. In “A Dame to Kill For,” Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin) forsakes his battle with his inner demons to help Ava Lord (Eva Green), the woman of his dreams and nightmares. In “Nancy’s Last Dance,” Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba), mad with grief and rage over Hartigan’s death, vows revenge.
Check out the trailer below and check out the movie.
Happy Wednesday one and all! Tomorrow it’s bird day and the celebrations will be very small. Hope everyone have a great day prepping for The Big Day. Me, I’m spending money I don’t have on shit I want!
Here’s where I want to visit. Hated I never made it over to China when I was in Korea.
The Danxia landform refers to various landscapes found in southeast, southwest and northwest China that “consist of a red bed characterized by steep cliffs”. It is a unique type of petrographic geomorphology found in China.
F. M. Laster
“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
Yep. This was pretty much the concesus that my peeps had when I first wanted to move to Korea. There were so wayyy out there things had people thought I had lost my mind. Anyway, check out this post about telling folks about my move.
Enjoy
F. M. Laster
“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
How People Reacted to Big Black Barbie’s Move to Korea
You can tell a lot about people from the way they react when you tell them you’re going to teach English in Korea for a year, especially people who one, have never left the country, and two, who don’t own a passport. Anyhoo here are the 6 types of people I have the pleasure of running into here in H-Town:
1. The “Korea is a 3rd world country” People
I went to my doctor for a check-up shortly before heading to Korea. I didn’t want any “surprises” showing up in the medical. I’d rather pay a couple of 100 now instead of a couple of thousand if I have to come back home. The doctor and I chatted for a bit, and I told him my plans. He looked at me like I was volunteering to help lepers for a year. He actually said that it’s good to know that there are more important things in life than the latest electronics.
It wasn’t just my doctor, but a hell of other people who thought I was traveling, to live in a mud hut or yurt in the middle of nowhere. Naturally, I would have no running water, electricity, and I’d have to boil my water every day. I would be teaching by natural light orby candlelight, in the daytime, with a coal stove in the middle of a one-room schoolhouse. My students would be the poorest of the poorest refugees; barefoot, dirty faces, torn clothes, and hungry all the time. I’ll be fighting warlords and rebels in the middle of some bloody civil war. Really???!! Get the fuck out of here! Black Barbie does NOT roll like that.
To top it off these same people thought I was doing this for the love of volunteering. In other words doing, this shit for free! Get the fuck out here! Black Barbie does not work for free! Never have, never will. I’s free now. One part of the motivation is to get away from Hannu as far as possible. I figure halfway around the world with the Pacific Ocean separating us would do the trick.
Now let’s not get it twisted. Korea is like every another country and will have its pockets of poverty. Korea is big on Confucianism. What this means is that a person’s family, not the government takes care of you. In other words, if you’re born poor, there is a good chance you will be miserable for the rest of your life.
2. The “Kim Jong-un Will Personally Kill You” People
I really cannot blame these types of people. North Korea is just a skip, hop, and a jump away, so I get it. Also, when we Westerners see documentaries or stories about North Korea, we see North Korea ordering various rocket tests and allowing their citizens to be starved, beaten, persecuted, or worse. I guess you never know what a crazy egomaniac will do.
3. The “Why Are You Not Going to Australia” People
“But everyone is in Oz!”
Australia is an English speaking country, and The Hemsworths are there! Both are big advantages, but I am not looking for that at the moment. Aww, who am I kidding, I am ALWAYS looking for that. I’ll take a Hemsworth. Or two. One of the challenges that get people to come to Korea is to learn a new language and to immerse yourself in a foreign culture totally. Now don’t get me wrong, I’d love to visit Australia and live there one day with my own Hemsworth; just not this particular moment. Right now, I feel the need to do something so far out of my comfort zone, and Korea is the place to be.
4. The “Problem Finding” people.
“There’s no Southern Food!” “You’ll be so homesick!” “You’ll have to eat rice all the time!” “You’re too Black” “ You’re Black” “Korea has different writing to us! DIFFERENT WRITING!!!” “YOU ARE BLACK!!!!!!!!!”
There are so many reasons not to come to Korea and a thousand more for coming to Korea. Well, the main reason is, of course, Hannu, but also for my sense of adventure. Also, there is a part of me who loves to travel. I think that inside I am a Wanderluster looking to wander. I also do not want to be on my deathbed in my 90’s wondering and regretting not going to Korea when I had the chance. I don’t want my last days to be days of regret because I didn’t go to Korea because I’m Black, I’ll miss Southern Cooking and learning Korean would be to damn hard! It’s only a year out of my life; I think I’ll live!
5. The “OMFGI’mSoF’ingJealous” people
There are a small, and I do mean a SMALL number of Black Folks, who have drunk the tea, slipped way down into the Korean version of The Sunken Place, and caught “ The Korean Kick”. The Korean Kick loves anything Korean, no matter how trivial it is. Usually, this group devotes themselves to anything starting with the letter “K”; K-Drama, K-Pop, K-Horror, K-Whatever. To their horror, I admitted that I have never watched or heard anything K-related. Of course, this will change, since I will be bombarded with anything K related 24 hours a day 7 days a week for the next 365 days. Fighting!
6. The “I Don’t Know What to Say” People
Many of my people have no clue what to say. This could be because they have no clue where the hell Korea is located. People don’t want to be embarrassed by what they don’t know. I get it; better to say silent and have everything think you’re intelligent than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. People, you should not be embarrassed. The world is a big place filled with countries that change names and regimes like whores change clothes and that’s okay. I tell people like that, don’t worry; that’s what Google is for; use the Google Force for something other than Rule 34!
