Posted by: chyma on: November 9, 2008
Once I spotted in the Urban Kvetch —a front corner in HEEB mag— this small criticism on Diablo Cody, I am having a hard time getting my mind off from her, for I can understand where the article was coming from. I actually cracked up on it, though I am in entirely favor of Cody. So I [...]
Posted by: chyma on: October 28, 2008
http://www.quamut.com/quamut/etiquette_and_manners/page/dating_etiquette.html
I cracked up when I happened to land on the article above. Or am I the only one who read it as if some sort of ‘poison control direction’ as opposed to any guide to what is supposed to be fun?
The first thing that occurred to me was that would just scare kids away from dating [...]
Posted by: chyma on: October 24, 2008
I thought I slammed the phone set. To follow the sequence of events or subjects of the conversation and examine how they shifted into another and progressed, I recognized I did not, he did; he hung up on me.
I got a call from my friend of ten years or so, who has been alcoholic and [...]
Posted by: chyma on: October 21, 2008
I was taking a look at the jacket & the liner notes of Fugees’ old one The Score to verify once more that the set was DUMBO warehouse area (Bklyn Under the Bridge). I was also familiar with the location where was/is this storage my live-in ex-boyfriend circa late 90’s was using. I often was moved every time I [...]
Posted by: chyma on: October 18, 2008
I was in Housing Works last night for a panel discussion held by Columbia Univ’s lit mag. I recognized some authors in the crowd such as Tao Lin, who was in a black hoodie that said Choke Victim on the back. I did not recognize him at all except that he was one of a few racial minorities among all [...]
Posted by: chyma on: September 8, 2008
I was reading the second book of Molly Jong-Fast, the daughter of Erica Jong. This book, originally titled The Sex Doctors in the Basement, and retitled to Girl, Maladjusted in its paperback rendition, was actually hilarious. I flipped through her first novel that was written before she went to MFA in Bennington, and thought it was [...]
Posted by: chyma on: September 4, 2008
So far, I have encountered different kinds of people. One of them are those who, I’d phrase, are obsessed with Phillip Roth. It might be a generational interest, or Jewish one. In either case, it is enough to know Roth is the type of the author who makes the readers feel like literally worshipping him. I met [...]
