Note The Absence Of Silly "K" Puns
Yes! I have now written out the recipe for Prawn & Spring Onion Pancake, which, unusually, is only sufficient for a single person. The prawns need defrosting first, and I can't decide whether to create the dipping sauce - for with Korean savoury pancakes one slices them into wedges and dips them in a sauce - or use the one that was left over from the Korean Fried Chicken Burgers. O the humanity! Art!
Hmmmm what clickbaity picture with reference to Korea can I add in here? Let us prod Art into consciousness with the electric catt - er I mean this bamboo skewer. With the blunt end, of course.
NOT THAT BLUNT! Art - <sound of Atomic Tazer charging up>
I have no idea. I just Googled "Strange Korean Architecture" and here we are. Let me point out that I have a whole 1 fan in Korea. Art!
There are also 5 Ruffians daft enough to read BOOJUM!'s scrivel, and - surprise surprise - 58 Ukrainians. Conrad has yet to think up an appropriate national nickname for them. Give me time.
Right. What I'd like to to here is give a little background information about the various K-Drama series that I've been watching on Netflix, because that way I can force Darling Daughter to read the blog, since I did say I'd recommend a few to her. Hold on, bumpy ride across the virtual landscape ensuing! O and by the way assume unless otherwise informed that all of these are set in South Korea.
"My Love From The Star": This one concerns an alien of humanoid appearance who is stranded on Earth for 400 years, and whom may or may not be in a romantic relationship with a human female. It's a lot to commit to, because there are 21 episodes. Still a sly satire on modern Korea. Art!
"Squid Game": Yes, Conrad saw this long before anyone else. It's about hundreds of losers at life who get the opportunity to win £45 million, if they survive to the end of a series of games. "Survive" because losers get killed. Conrad thought it should have ended with a single season but no, ￦￦￦* is more important. Art!
"Sisyphus The Myth": This one will make your head hurt. It's about a Sork genius who invents an 'Uploader', which can send things into the future. He also invents a 'Downloader', which will send things into the past. This destabilises at least Korea, if not the whole world, leading to war and incredible destruction. He also has to contend with an agency who have decided they're going to control time-travel with lethal force if need be. Art!
"Kingdom": Okay, this one concerns zombies. However, unlike "Train To Busan" it is set in the Joseon era, about 1600 A.D. It's great for painlessly learning a bit of Korean history. And it's also a kind of policier, as the protagonists try to discover where Patient Zero originated from. Art!
"All Of Us Are Dead": Zombies again, set in a Sork high school this time. They really deal with the nitty-gritty of surviving a zombie apocalypse; if you're trapped in a set of classrooms, with no running water, how do you arrange sanitation? How do you get to the roof to signal that there are survivors? Also notable for a robust Sork military response - no bumbling idiot soldiers here - and a high-tec solution to zombie-baiting. Art!
I think I shall have to stop it there, this is only half the series that I've watched, otherwise the whole blog will be K-drama. Hopefully I have enlightened you a little. Conrad should also point out that the history of Korea is horribly complicated and he may need to purchase a book or two on the subject.
Motley! Bring me some Japchae!
More Of Icelandic Food
Fish is important to the Icelanders, because as an island nation sitting in the middle of the Atlantic, it's one of their principal foodstuffs. In fact, it's so important that the politest war in history was waged between Perfidious Albion and the Icelandic Navy, immediately dubbed the "Cod Wars".
ANYWAY one of the things brought back from Reykjavik for Conrad The Stomach On Legs was the following. Art!
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| "Viking Snack" |
This is dried cod, rather like crisps made out of fish, and O my! does it smell or what. It's sitting in the cupboard, not out in the open. Edna loves it, of course - obviously! - and Conrad will consider eating it in small doses. A little goes a long way.
Talking Of The Champ Of Scamp
Thanks to being the most spoiled dog in the history of humanity, Edna now has a sweet tooth, rather like Conrad except with a body mass 127 times smaller. Art!
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| Edna trying to look nonchalant |
Who finished off the Hobnobs? Why, Edna did! She managed to wrangle them out of that packet and scoffed four of them, which is why she was in the metaphorical doghouse. Not only were they Chocolate Hobnobs, they were gluten-free Chocolate Hobnobs, which cost at least £3 per biscuit.
Yes, Edna, you may well hang your head.
"The Sea Of Sand"
As you recall, the Italian Camionistas were getting a right shoeing against their alien opponents. Things are afoot elsewhere.
"Heave!" whispered Sarah, trying to keep quiet in the silence left when the nearby siren stopped wailing. The five men holding up the weighty wooden desk glared at her, then swung their burden back again. Professor Templeman, less fit than the other four, pushed from the back and the desk connected with the rear wall of the hut, making a dull thud and shaking the wall. Lumps of mud fell away from the deeply-incised circle and cross that the prisoners had scraped away with the divider.
"Again!" whispered Sarah, drawing more glares. "Put your back into it, Professor!"
This time an inch-wide crack appeared in the wall, and the next blow to land dislodged a great fragmented mass of mud and straw. Not big enough to escape by, so they enlarged it with well-aimed kicks. The wall was friable, ancient and untended, and it split apart once it's integrity was gone.
Dusty, tired and now free in daylight, Roger led them across the depot, dodging amongst piles of supplies, aiming for the truck park. A distant crackle of gunfire came to them, spurring them on.
Sarah felt conflicting emotions: gratitude at having escaped, worry that the Doctor still hadn't returned.
Aw, bless her and her thoughtfulness!
Back To The Moon
There have been many Moon missions since the last Apollo landed there in 1972, yet none have been crewed by humans. NASA intends to remedy this deficiency within the decade, setting up short-stay lunar environments where Hom. Sap. can reside in order to carry out longer-term research projects - is there ice on the Moon? Has the Helium-3 isotope (required for nuclear fusion reactors) been detected in quantity? How does a 1/6th G environment affect the human body?
This all depends on the successful performance of both the Artemis rocket system and the Orion capsule. Art!
Orion is now on it's way to the Moon, having been launched earlier this week atop an Artemis.
Moonbase Alpha here we come!
Finally -
Let us now address the fact that a Lunar colony will require protection from alien or human agencies. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you - the Hawk!
And with that, Vulnavia, we are done. Done!
* The symbol for Sork currency.
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