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11 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments AncientCulture $0.01
Introduction How is his personality? What were his greatest achievements? And, the most importantly: Who does he remind you of? These questions will be answered in the text below. Hermes can be described as a kind of mixture of the gods O...
11 Aug 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Chinuck $0.05
While working at a Japanese restaurant, I once commented to the chef that Japanese are very creative inventors. He thought that Japanese don't invent anything, but are good at copying other people's inventions and improving on them. While I think Ita...
10 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Drew Binsky $0.01
DO YOU LIKE FAST FOOD? If so, then you'll know that no country does it better than the USA... I am guilty of loving fast food myself, and I crave it so much when I am abroad 11 months of the year. So when I am home, like right now, I am usually eati...
10 Aug 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Drew Binsky $0.01
KOREAN - best cuisine on earth? I think YES! Many of you may not know that I lived and taught English in Seoul for 2 years (from 2013 - 2015), which is how I got started with travel blogging, which led me to making videos. Not only is Seoul the most...
9 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck $0.15
Fire up the grill because we need to cook the person who came up with this terrible pun! Or, you can fire up these shiso kebabs which I think would be much tastier. Ingredients 12 shrimp 12 shiso leaves a few strips of kanpyo -- Kanpyo is a dried g...
8 Aug 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
I recently watched Less Than Zero for the first time in decades. Supposedly, Bret Easton Ellis wasn't in love with the film when it came out, but I think it's a classic. One of those perfectly-cast snapshots of the time in which it was made that so...
6 Aug 2021 1 minute read 6 comments Chinuck $0.04
As summer is getting into full swing in many places, here's a simple recipe to help you cool off. (Apologies to citizens of the Southern Hemisphere for my Northern Hemisphere centrism.) This recipe is more commonly done with mint, but this is a Japa...
5 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments TabbyTabby $0.01
I watched a show recently, Vexed, where the main characters are discussing the suitability of a flat over a corpse. They become so wrapped up in the nature of the apartment that they forget (apparently) that a deceased person is below them, her last...
4 Aug 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Chinuck $0.06
Noodle soup is as Asian as burgers are American. As a Chinese kid growing up in North America, I liked both of these foods, but I remember the particular challenges they brought me as well. Crappy fast food burgers were generally not a problem, but a...
3 Aug 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Necksus $0.74
In the United States, we have a long, proud, storied tradition of calling people cultists for doing things outside the norm. This isn't going to stop most people IRL from telling you that you're a weirdo for thinking like Fox Mulder from the X-Files...
