Hi, korini!

Now I'll have to take another look at DEVIL RIDER. Watched it because of Kim Young-Jae, who played Suni-Mun, the paranoid king of Gaya in THE KING'S DAUGHTER, SU BAEK-HYANG... and then was astonished to realize that Yu Oh-Seong in the title role had played Gi-Cheol in FAITH. Totally did not recognize him. What a chameleon!

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DEVIL RIDER on KBS World TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybCMX9Fqqyg

Yikes... Dear Husband pointed out on Friday the 13th the shocking news that Very Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo departs NCIS this coming week.

The good news is that Michael Weatherly will be heading up a new show on CBS.

http://deadline.com/2016/05/michael-weatherly-ncis-cote-de-pablo-1201753750/

In other news, CBS is rebooting MACGYVER... Hmmm. If it ain't Richard Dean Anderson and his 1985 mullet, it's no dice for me -- with apologies to George Eades, late of CSI... who has been cast in a supporting role.

*waves at Kaylie*

I enjoyed SUNNY. Being a person of a certain age, believe me, I've had many repeated opportunities to look back on my younger self and muse over the twists and turns in life since those days.

I once read words to the effect that "Inside every old person is a young person wondering, 'What the hell happened to me?!'" Your mileage may vary, but that has been my experience. In many ways I'm still about 25 or so in my mind. The only thing that's changed is the amount of life experience, and the cumulative effects of gravity incurred during trips around the sun. Maybe if I had offspring it would be different.

While I did not attend an all-girls' high school, I passed the entrance exams for two of them. Since neither offered German, I said to hell with it and went to public high school. As with Na-Mi, the transition was a bumpy one after 9 years of Catholic grammar school.

Because I lived miles outside town and had to ride a school bus (there were no sidewalks), I didn't get to socialize much in grammar school, and was never a member of an established clique. It was pretty much the same in high school. I was a nerd who worked on school publications, served behind the scenes on stage crew, and hung out with a couple of other brainy bookworms.

In SUNNY, I was taken aback by all the fighting among students. Egads. Like something out of WEST SIDE STORY. It's totally alien to my experiences in the far suburbs of New Jersey -- but would have been par for the course in urban areas, according to a friend with firsthand experience. Thus, I can see how necessary it was for Na-Mi to become aligned with others, if only for safety in numbers. The siege mentality boggles my mind.

As for sisterhood, I didn't encounter that until attending community college, when I crossed paths on the campus newspaper with a no-holds-barred feminist in 1975. She has long since become one of two slightly-older unni I didn't have in my family of origin. I was her personal consciousness-raising project, and I'm grateful. Most assuredly I wouldn't be the person I am today if she hadn't whacked me repeatedly on the side of the head to wake me up. Our frequent battle cry -- and editorial epithet -- was "Sexist!" This was in the days of Disco Madness, when how you looked, dressed, and danced seemed to matter more than having a functioning brain. I also worked on the campus radio station, and clomped around in Frye boots, jeans, and flannel shirts. Protective coloration to blend in with the rest of the hicks in the sticks.

IMHO, there's a generational difference between Sunny's members and my generation. I think of the first generation of Late Twentieth Century feminists as being the activists in the 1960s, with younger siblings like me in the second generation. Sunny would be in the third generation.

To be more accurate, I have to qualify all that by recalling foremothers in earlier centuries... including all the Rosie the...

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To be more accurate, I have to qualify all that by recalling foremothers in earlier centuries... including all the Rosie the Riveters in both world wars, veterans like my Mom who served in the military during WWII and the Korean War, and the suffragettes who were jailed and manhandled for demonstrating for the right to vote in. The air is getting thin up here on my soapbox, so I'll sign off for now...