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 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 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 [...]
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 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 14, 2008
This movie had been in my ‘to see’ list forever. That I had it there explains that I was interested in it but was never actually interested enough to bring myself any chance to see it. The feigned interest was caused by reasons below.
1) People talk so highly of it as well as of this production [...]
Posted by: chyma on: August 7, 2008
It is not everything to be involved in that manner —as today’s title goes—, my current boyfriend persuades.
This is another make up after the third official attempt to break off. I just needed to be alone to work and focus, and hey, the word that I hate the most is boyfriend. It does not cause [...]
