June 2011
1 post
What's in a Name
Me: Crystal, don’t bite your Bible. It’s disrespectful. Crystal, 7-year-old niece: Well, only sometimes. Like, what if God tells me to bite it? Me: Oh, come on. Crystal: Oh, you come on, Paulina. Me: Hey! You can’t call me Paulina [unless prefaced by some honorific]. Crystal: I can call you Paulina! … Or Steve.
August 2010
2 posts
Phileo
Me: You should like [the gospel music]. I’ve sent you some stuff before. Steph: I bet I don’t. I’ve never loved anything you sent me.
Popo How
Rosalind, my 3-year-old niece: I went to Popo’s [婆婆, or grandma’s] house. What Rosalind seemed to have said: I went to Popo how. What my dad heard, and responded with: Purple heart? Wow, that’s nice of you to help your friend … your wounded friend.
November 2009
2 posts
October 2009
2 posts
I listen to songs I love on loop until I’m...
September 2009
1 post
“In less than 48 hours, Rep. Joe Wilson’s two little words have lifted the...”
– “How Joe Wilson, Sarah Palin Killed the Healthcare Debate,” by Derek Thompson over at The Atlantic.
May 2009
1 post
April 2009
1 post
March 2009
2 posts
February 2009
10 posts
“After obsessively checking the Twitter postings of the Korean taco maker to see...”
– For more on this Korean Mexican fusion thing of crazy deliciousness, click here.
““Diet betting is definitely becoming more popular among friends, relatives and...”
– Diet betting, via NYT.
words to ban from all food-related articles (i'm...
sublime
transcendent
ethereal
mind-blowing
heavenly
divine
resplendent
more to be added later
January 2009
5 posts
la fin est douce
Among my half-dozen or so new year’s resolutions, one was to read one book a week. So far, I am failing. Today’s date (17th) indicates that I should be on book 3; I am only 60% done with book 2.
February will be better.
Nevertheless, here are two short book reviews of the stuff I’ve read so far:
The Prodigal God, by Timothy Keller. Keller opens his book by correcting two...
this is incredible
One day, my dad was speeding aimlessly while taking me to Michigan for a college visit. Not long after he started hitting speeds of 100 mph, a cop pulled my dad over.
My dad, ever so calm in such situations and so over getting “American speeding tickets,” decided to take the situation into his own hands… or really, his own bowels. Just before the officer could ask for my dad’s license and...
lollerskates
Kobe Bryant has just launched a bilingual Chinese-English blog.
“… when the pale light of New Year dawns over the earth, we must be...”
– The closing lines of the 2009 address from the reform-minded Chinese newspaper, Southern Weekend.
December 2008
2 posts
“Much has been made about Blagojevich’s thick mop of brown hair, which is...”
– “A Dark Cloud Hangs Over Blagojevich, Or Is It Just His Hair?”, via Washington Post.
last semester
these last days are like catching my breath.
November 2008
3 posts
October 2008
12 posts
“Gourmand syndrome is a rare, benign condition that sometimes occurs in people...”
– Gourmand syndrome, Wikipedia. This is almost too funny to be true.
“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter...”
– John Donne
dilemma
Is it really bad that I am secretly very pleased when formerly buff people get fat?
overheard by the bus stop: flippant and haunting
Girl #1, chuckling: So how does it feel to be the other woman in an affair?
Girl #2, smiling: Oddly, not as weird as I thought it would be!
This world is sick.
“Mother’s Cookies, an Oakland institution for 92 years, has been shuttered,...”
– via SFChron. I’m gonna tear stuff up.
“名者，實之賓也。
But a name is only a guest of reality.”
– Zhuangzi (莊子)
charted
odshine:
caitlinmarie:
“At the moment, one in three cigarettes lit in the world is smoked in China.”
– Geez. (via BBCNews)
break up
I was walking across People’s Park when I heard this guy on the phone to his friend, loudly denouncing a relationship that he had just gotten out of. Apparently, this guy’s girlfriend cheated on him, and in retaliation, he threw all her stuff out onto the street. A quote, overheard:
And then she came home and she asked me, “Oh my gosh, where’s all my stuff?” I said,...
September 2008
7 posts
scribbled this poem during my dark,...
ink spears violently blotting through reams heavy anguish to save open eyes
with the lights, torpor falls alertness fails sleep has won
“He sounds so old, but he looks so young. There’s something dissonant about...”
– My friend Amy, on Winnie the Pooh.
“UC Berkeley officials said that as of about 9 a.m. today, the tree-sitters have...”
– The Daily Cal. As my friend Stephanie pointed out, I think Mogulof might have preferred to be quoted as “…their reason for being there will no longer be present.” But whatever. As such, the quote is as hilarious as it is life-threatening.
Strange longings from a chemist. Part 1 of,...
Me: back
Stephanie: hey hey
Stephanie: if I hook you up with some liquid nitrogen
Me: um
Me: where is this going
Stephanie: you think you can get freeze dry me some indian food
Stephanie: and mail it over?
Stephanie: hahahahaha