My east-coast drinkin' buddy, Vern, travels almost as much as I do. He visited Korea recently and posted some nifty photographs of Changseung, traditional Korean village guardian totems, in this Tiki Central thread. The fine-looking fellow in the picture above is located near a tunnel dug under the DMZ by the North Korean military.

Long-time readers of the Goof may recall that one of my earliest posts documented my own trip to Korea where I also took a shine to the many Changseung I encountered in my travels. You can see a couple of photos of them in my Flickr set, Travels With Mr. BaliHai.

If that's not enough for you, check out these fine galleries of Changseung (or Jangseung) at the Life In Korea website:

[Gallery][Gallery 1][Gallery 2][Gallery 3]

Posted by MrBaliHai at 7:13 PM | Permalink

Nothing says "Christmas" to me like the Pope laying cable, and nobody knows that better than the Catalunyans whose traditional manger figurines called Caganer, depict nuns, fishermen, politicians, celebrities, and soccer players taking a healthy dump right next to the Baby Jeebus.

Thanks to my buddy, Mark, for dumping these crappy online Caganer collections on me.

[Link: El Caganer]
[Link: Caganer Gallery]

Posted by MrBaliHai at 12:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)