February 2012
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"I want to see dead people"
blasian:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, directed by Stephen Daldry and based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s type-experiment novel of the same name, starts with 9 year old Oskar Schell selling us a solution for the problem of housing the dead. With so many people inhabiting the world there will soon not be enough room to bury all of them, he thinks, and offers a solution whereby we visit them in...
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Watching television (sic) in the New Broadcast...
Something interesting is taking place in broadcast media today, and it has to do with the consequences of declaring video the heir apparent of our future.
Video is the future.
If I never heard it again it’d be too soon. As a web-consumer of course I realize the salience of video, youtube, chatroullette, gimmicky memes… As a marketer, however, I worry all the hype around...
WatchMovie from my recent trip to Tokyo.
Blasian.: Rest in Peace, Whitney Houston →
blasian:
I’m dumbstruck by news of Whitney Houston’s death. I’m not shocked by what’s probably an overdose everyone could have predicted, but I’m actually dumbstruck because her death represents the final canonization of my own adolescence.
She was the inspiration behind at least my first two spiral perms…
Three Situations in Which You Should Not Brag...
1. If you’re over 30.
2. Ever.
3. Anywhere.
Jeremy Mother Fuckin' Lin →
Blasian:
“I defended China because no one at the basketball court ever called me “Taiwanese”, they called me a “chink”. I was Chinese whether I liked it or not. In America, it really doesn’t matter if you think you’re Taiwanese, Colombian, Peruvian, Dominican, Vietnamese, Korean, or Japanese: we’re all chinks and Mexicans to the untrained eye. I had no choice or way to reason because there were...
Wonton Cruelty: Mongolia: Day 1 →
wontoncruelty:
Transmission to Captain Mark Meadows:
Definitely not dead! Alive and well in Darkhan! Had a grueling flight here - 24+ hour delay in Moscow, but killed time with a Dutch pilot, and lots of rad random Mongolians who helped me keep in the know about our flight, quiet places to sleep and help for me…
January 2012
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Things I said today.
“I do the kind of sit-ups advertised in Men’s Health.”
“Even if I invent disposable boyfriends and they sell like Kleenex, I will never run a company with more than 10 people.”
“I thought it said ‘wagon tits’… does that mean you wear prairie bonnets as a bra?”
“Pining after boba-slanging girls who deserve their own manga?”
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Lisa Hanawalt: War Horse: An Illustrated Response →
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I could write an entire book about horses and how into them I am, but let’s just say that I was a horse from ages eight-to-fourteen. Former classmates still ask me, “Were you that girl who drew ponies and crawled around on all fours ALL the time?” You guys, I’ve seen a shit ton of horse…
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Translating can really fuck with your head sometimes.
I was tasked to translate this morsel from the American Kennel Club’s description of the Bichon Frise:
The breed is often compared to a cotton ball due to its curled double coat, which consists of a textured outer coat and a silky undercoat.
What I envisioned in Japanese could be translated back into English as:
I fingered a dog with...
December 2011
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Let's face it. I'll never have a library.
I’m not turning myself in to the e-book hegemony (yet), but am facing facts: I’ll never have a library. I can barely afford books, much less leather smoking chairs and beveled shelves. [I just made up a bunch of words I think are artifacts of the upper-class literate…]
So here we go. Another purge of my books. There is a lot of great manga in there, and to be honest, a lot of...
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About East Asian Food.
1. Koreans can’t make good pho. Chinese can’t make good sushi. Japanese can’t make good kimchi.
2. Tofu is in the eye of the beholder. You use Chinese tofu to make mabo dofu, Korean tofu to make soon dubu, and Japanese tofu to make hiyayakko. Take any rotten form of any soy protein and turn it into an American breakfast.
3. Ditto ramen. Ramyun comes with a beat egg. Ramen...
“My name is not Susan.”
– Whitney Houston
rant: Housing.
It wasn’t till about 2006 that I understood what a mortgage was. Sure, I understood that homes were bought with loans, but I didn’t know the greater significance of a “mortgage.”
As in “I qualified for a mortgage” (2006) or “I can’t make my mortgage” (2009).
I just read a New Yorker article on bankruptcy, something I’ve known about all...
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Sayonara, by James Michener. An opinion.
Several years ago while on quasi-vacation in Bali, I found myself arguing with a white woman about James Michener. My initial opinion of Michener was founded on a biased reading of “Tales of the South Pacific” and the eponymous Rogers & Hammerstein musical adaptation. My opinion of the musical was further complicated by my ambivalence toward Rogers & Hammerstein which can be...
November 2011
10 posts
Hawai'i. Manhood.
Last Wednesday I was on the North Shore of Oahu with family, enjoying a late afternoon of paddle ball and surfer-ogling. Forget for a second that I’m back in the armpit of interior longitudes today, “working” at a computer. And forget for a second all the other wonderful things I saw in the Pacific outpost. I keep returning to this one moment at the beach, in which all three...
I am enjoying my full-blown cold,
the tickle in my nose,
the beehive forming in my chest,
an excuse to stay in bed and sew.
What do you do when you’re sick?
Things heard at Occupy Wall Street
“I’ve been here since 5:30am.”
“I’ve been here since yesterday.”
“I’ve been here since the beginning.”
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Kind of the dopest thing ever on the internet... →
Jailbreak the Patriarchy genderswaps the world for you. When it’s installed, everything you read in Chrome (except for gmail, so far) loads with pronouns and a reasonably thorough set of other gendered words swapped. For example: “he loved his mother very much” would read as “she loved her father very much”, “the patriarchy also hurts men” would read as “the matriarchy also hurts women”, that sort...
Open Letter: Elevening Friday
Hello friends. Many of you know I have a penchant for sporadic blasts of pseudo-news. It’s called a penchant, because I keep doing it; sporadic because I do it so inconsistently, and pseudo-news, because real news isn’t delivered via blog posts from people like me (e.g. SMOKING hot). This is my disclaimer. If you don’t think you want to read news from me, that’s fine....
Halloween
You know what would blow my mind? If Sexy Cat stayed in her costume in perpetuity. Don’t bother pretending women in last night’s sexy Halloween costumes wanted to communicate anything other than that they are… well, sexy and probably a little lonely (ironically not unlike a lot of “cat ladies”). But if we do pretend Sexy Cat is someone who just really really likes...
October 2011
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“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig
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Love the Economist Not the Economy
After spending a few days in Lower Manhattan with sundry elements of the Occupy Wall Street movement in its least antagonistic manifestations, I’ve come to a handful of resolutions, observations, and advice (to give, of course…). Let me start with a contextual preface, however. Of late, I’d become of the mind that my opinion did not matter as much as my observation. When...
September 2011
4 posts
I had an incredible unblock of my writing hand (the right) late Thursday night. What ensued were pages of content, interpretation and form. What emerged was the rest of a narrative.
Heartfuck. Coming soon.
Recorded Letters from an Army Doctor in Korea →
If M.A.S.H. were a Terrence Malick radio-opera.
August 2011
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22 Year Old Woman Invents Wireless Charger, Hates...
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Meredith Perry turned 22 this month. She just graduated from college and started a new company built around a technology she recently invented.
There’s plenty of bad economic news these days, but Perry and her company, called UBeam, are trying to defy it — she’s hiring and entertaining funding offers from investors.
Perry’s invention: a transmitter that can recharge...