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...