Day: July 20, 2007

MasterChugs Theater: ‘Attack the Gas Station’

One of the most popular films in Korean history, Kim Sang-jin’s surprise hit from 1999, Attack the Gas Station is an absorbing action/comedy that is also a sly satire of South Korea’s social turmoil. The film begins as four teenage punks rip off a gas station, only to quickly become dissatisfied with the relatively small amount of cash they stole. Deciding that running the station would be more lucrative, the four return the next day to hold the station attendants hostage and rob the customers that come in. As can be expected, wacky subtitled hi-jinx ensue.

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The lessons of the past

Sun Tzu once wrote that it is important to know one’s enemy. It seems the only justifiable reason to be studying dinosaurs, our long-vanquished foe. A recent study concludes that dinosaurs coexisted with their reptilian ancestors before gradually taking over the world.

This blog agrees with Sun Tzu’s philosophy wholeheartedly. That is why members of this blog constantly watch the Jurassic Park trilogy, which is right up there with the Godfather movies.

Attack of the strange metal objects

Speaking of strange things falling from the sky, a man in Bayonne, New Jersey was sitting in his home this week when something unusual happened. This went unreported before, because what is “unusual” for most of the country is called Tuesday in NJ.

I’m kidding! The man was in his home when suddenly a strange object came crashing through his roof, and no, it was not an attempted mob hit. It was a piece of metal with some holes in it. The source of the metal has NJ authorities stumped.

Key quote from our friends at NASA: “It didn’t look ‘very space-y,’ said Henry Kline, a spokesman for the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. ‘It’s obviously made for something … But we wouldn’t know what to do with it.'”

P.S.: Thirty-eight years ago today those guys landed us on the Moon.