This Sunday in Pictures (and a tribute to the great Ben Johnson!!!)
Since it wasn't as hot as usual today, I actually ventured out of my apartment to find these kids playing in a water fountain.
They told me to "F.O.," so I told them, it's not even their fountain in the first place. It belongs to Wooribank, which I have an account at! They didn't seem to care.
So I bumped around on the subway line and ended up at a park on the south side of the Han River, made famous by the phrase, "Miracle of the Han River," whereby South Korea became a very rich country and was able to afford buildings like the tall one on the right, a 63-story building called, imaginatively enough, 63 Building. I'm not kidding.
Unfortunately, to be able to make all that money, South Korea had to dump a lot of crap in their nice river. Not pretty.
A closeup of 63 Building. This was the tallest building in Asia for a few months prior to the 1988 Olympics. I assume that was a reason for building it, because it has a memorial to the Olympics in front of it...
Remember, 1988 was the Olympics of Canadian superstar Ben Johnson - still a hero of mine after all these years, especially after its been proven that everybody in that race was on 'roids.
(And yes, thanks to youtube, that's a video of Ben Johnson's record breaking race. And boy oh boy does he dominate. That record stood until only a few years ago, broken by Tim Montgomery and then Justin Gatlin, BOTH proven to be 'roids users.)
As you might have seen above, not many people are outside on such a crappy hot day... They're all inside where they can take bad arty blue-tinted pictures like this one.
Lastly, an apartment tower with the least obvious name of all-time... What could they possibly be suggesting about themselves, with a name like RICHensia?
They told me to "F.O.," so I told them, it's not even their fountain in the first place. It belongs to Wooribank, which I have an account at! They didn't seem to care.
So I bumped around on the subway line and ended up at a park on the south side of the Han River, made famous by the phrase, "Miracle of the Han River," whereby South Korea became a very rich country and was able to afford buildings like the tall one on the right, a 63-story building called, imaginatively enough, 63 Building. I'm not kidding.
Unfortunately, to be able to make all that money, South Korea had to dump a lot of crap in their nice river. Not pretty.
A closeup of 63 Building. This was the tallest building in Asia for a few months prior to the 1988 Olympics. I assume that was a reason for building it, because it has a memorial to the Olympics in front of it...
Remember, 1988 was the Olympics of Canadian superstar Ben Johnson - still a hero of mine after all these years, especially after its been proven that everybody in that race was on 'roids.
(And yes, thanks to youtube, that's a video of Ben Johnson's record breaking race. And boy oh boy does he dominate. That record stood until only a few years ago, broken by Tim Montgomery and then Justin Gatlin, BOTH proven to be 'roids users.)
As you might have seen above, not many people are outside on such a crappy hot day... They're all inside where they can take bad arty blue-tinted pictures like this one.
Lastly, an apartment tower with the least obvious name of all-time... What could they possibly be suggesting about themselves, with a name like RICHensia?
posted by Timothy Holden at
12:18 AM
2 Comments:
Ben Johnson did that?
Oh well. I can't hold anything against him when he got shafted so royally by the Olympics that is addicted to the very 'roids he used. Too bad he had abad doctor.
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Anonymous, at 5:22 PM
I agree with Tim, Johnson got a raw deal. Maybe the Olympics were trying to make an example out of him, although I think the example Johnson set was how fucking fast you can go when training with steroids.
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D-String, at 10:30 AM
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