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 17, 2008
I finally caught up with the sequel of Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay just a night ago. I was really compelled to go see it in a theater when it was released but I did not have time for it, I suppose.
So I went over and scrutinized it in the ‘Unrated’ version in DVD. I [...]
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 [...]
Posted by: chyma on: September 1, 2008
Just a small column that I was unfazed by but I note it here anyway, for it occupied my mind just before I had fallen asleep and even after I woke up this mornig: an interview of a female editor from the Onion—the famous joke paper targeted for college and/or after college kids—who became pretty known for this dispute [...]
Posted by: chyma on: August 24, 2008
I sure am talking about the movie Female Trouble by John Waters (1974). This movie strangely appealed to me for the wise subject matter—womanhood that is prone to be criminalized—and its handle. The approach is anyhow feminist one. The life of heterosexual is not worth living, indeed, I can’t agree more. I have lived to claim it really [...]
Posted by: chyma on: August 16, 2008
I finally got a long meditated but unaccomplished mission out of my way so I feel very complete. The mission was to finish Courtney Eldridge’s collection Unkempt, including “The Former World Record Holder Settles Down,” which was marked as one of a few literally works that were inspired by Annabelle Chong’s world record of having intercourse with 211 men [...]
Posted by: chyma on: August 9, 2008
http://www.venuszine.com/articles/art_and_culture/reads/748/dao_strom
I also wanted to talk to you about how their Vietnamese backgrounds shape these different women and about their relationships with men. Also about how these women are very conscious of how they look to others. Particularly how Mary, in The Gentle Order of Boys and Girls, for example, negotiates the world differently from Leena, [...]
