i found the h&m flash model!!! go here and then click on "h&m denim - romeo & juliet" then you want to look for something that says "dressing room". from what i can tell, you can only try on different types of jeans, but you get to put in your weight and hair style and it's kinda fun.

oh, where to begin?
so many fucking things wrong with this article, and to top it off, of course it's written by a columbia j-schooler who graduated just before me and had the same RW1 prof.
-[Pi Alpha Phi president] Chang said he doesn’t 'really see the point' of having clubs that are exclusively Asian...
-“Everyone tries to assimilate,” he said. “I don’t think there’s a future here in trying to hold on to [exclusively Asian] tradition.”
- Last year, Thomas took part in a “Black Out” protest, where black students dressed in black and silently blocked hallways as their way of protesting their lack of a voice on campus. “Caucasian students were more vocal against us,” Thomas said. “Like the Berkeley Republicans, they’re a strong group, but it’s all Caucasian. It’s easier to cope [as a black student], the Asians are more apathetic, less hostile.”
- Albert Wu, president of the Asian Political Association, hopes to change that, at least the apathetic part. Wu agreed that Asian students are less likely than others to be politically involved on campus. “There’s a strong culture from immigrant families of not wanting to be involved in politics,” Wu said. “They want sciences, to get economically stable.” About half of all Berkeley’s Asian students are of Chinese ancestry. “In China, politicians aren’t very well respected. Doctors and scientists are revered. That’s why I’m named ‘Albert.’ ”

yawn. well i'm glad he broke so many preconceptions of asian ams at berkeley with that article and really furthered the debate on the issue. thanks. this is why white people should not write about communities of color.

QOTD

complete text of email from bot:

did i hear bff or fb?

new podcast obsession: answer bitch

status aint hood
does anyone know what that means? or are we all too indie rock to understand? i've been cleaning my room in anticipation of the arrival of both steve and minnay (aka my topshop dealer aka alan cumming, wtf?), and i found a copy of laurie's destiny's child cd, and I AM SO ROCKING THAT SHIT 24/7 SUCKAZ. seriously there are some good songs on there. my favorite is "soldier." i must go to claire's now and buy some hoop earrings.

hilarious.

so i saw a rehearsal for my play - i couldn't stop smiling for the first ten minutes i was watching them rehearse. i felt like a proud parent. then i remembered i was supposed to be the mysterious playwright, shrouded in intrigue, and quickly assumed that pose.

also, for anyone interested in going to the show that i'm going to, i am going THIS FRIDAY NIGHT. i am also planning to go to the last show. you MUST make reservations for the show (b/c the theatre is so small, they want to make sure they can accomodate everyone) at 415-255-0440. let me know if you're going friday, although i'm sure i will see you there if you go.

the body is a strange crazy thing
the body is strange in the amount of alcohol it can contain, the amount of sleep it needs and the amount of food it can ingest. this has been week of food, and yet each time i wake up, i'm hungry.

week in recap
-the 1nvisible cities lunchtime concert @ 101 california - marg0t got a shout-out for her blue hair!
-a good night of crossfading on tuesday - complete with live video game component and the best sourdough jack i have ever eaten. ever.
-laguna beach marathon w/laurie @ her new place
-alpha bar - tokyo ice tea and new orleans ice tea ("isn't this a little insensitive?") night of the "milquetoast"
-apature comedy night - best stand-up show i have seen this year. he is hilahhrious.
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"these words," natasha bedingfield
"sweet troubled soul," stellastarr
"comrades & friends (loquat remix)," from monument to masses

san francisco vs. new york: settled, once and for all

minnie?



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why i must return to new york

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obviously gawker gets four LOLs from me today. also see their look book critique, made all the more hilarious because i just learned what bukkake is (yeah, i know, sheltered).

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WHO ARE YOU, BOT? WHO ARE YOU??
sam and i have been following the movements of one steve a0ki, and in the proces have learned way more about marg0t than i ever wanted to know.

Me:
http://p099.ezboard.com/fjjboardfrm12.showMessage?topicID=89966.topic

and it looks like the asian pharrell was there too

Marg0t:
AAHAHAHA. did ydou read the commetns below the post...

ok laugh but i think benji is actually pretty hot. hillary duff is dating joel madden? wtf is going on? i still don't really get your two's obsession w/steve aoki and stalking pics of him on the internet but i laugh anyway.

Me:
OMG I JUST THREW UP IN MY MOUTH. FULL THROW UP. NOT A LITTLE. YOU THINK BENJI IS CUTE?!??!?!?! YOU ARE SO HOT TOPIC OMG.

Marg0t
damn you. but i dig eyeliner on guys. what can i say. i just gotta be me. just b/c i think he's hot won't prevent me from making fun of him and good charlotte.

what the...heather graham?
firecrotch should be paid more. anyone who whacks at a drum and tamborine with that much gusto AND plays the accordion deserves a raise. but i guess his enthusiasm can be attributed to the fact that he is ten feet away from the thin white duke. oh, david bowie - why must everything you touch turn to gold?

“Don’t be rude! Rise to the fashion occasion!”
..and that poor editor's sweater was "destroyed"!

fruitfucker
rj: i find the word "factchecker" to be vulgar when glanced at very quickly
me: what does it look like? is it the f c and k in succession?
rj: something along the lines of
rj: "fruitfucker" or something

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ma seeto
ma seeto: when did marg0t leave her phone in your car?
me: last night.
ma seeto: oh. what did you do last night?
me, thinking to myself: well, first we went with about 20 guys (including one of marg0t's former FBs) to a club in the tenderloin where they had an open bar, and where we drank adios muthafuckas and tried to pick off unsuspecting younger guys. after we got pretty faded, we moved to another club where your daughter got bumped n' grinded by a guy she went on a date with last week. oh, and she smoked a j outside the club with this guy's dealer later that night. damn, your daughter is so crazay!
me, outloud: um, we just went to a friend's birthday party.

labor day photos from hi-fi

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CFW log, stardate 9/11/2005

me: "ok, see that picture with alice and jaime in it, the one where they're on the dance floor?"
minnie: "yeah..."
me: "see that white guy dancing in the background behind them?"
minnie: "yeah..."
me: "yeah, he was like that."

new california media has a good roundup of asian communities hit by the hurricane that we haven't heard about.

It's one thing to be horrified by the suffering in New Orleans and send off a check to the Red Cross (Americans are not ungenerous, especially in a crisis), but quite another to recognize that many of the causes of the catastrophe — the existence of a huge permanent underclass, the ongoing degradation of our coastlines, the choice to cut taxes rather than maintain our nation's infrastructure — are a widely accepted part of life in today's United States. They've become normal.

about saturday night
three-day rule NEVER LIES.

sam: easiest hookup ever?
me: it would have been...
me: if he was her type
sam: is cute not a type?
sam: was he not riot grrrrrrl enough for her?
sam: did he not like meat?

pentagon press transcripts can be good sources of dialogue
regarding a massive student database for military recruiters that was made public two years after it was created.

Media: What do you say to privacy advocates who view this as government intrusion into the privacy of citizens and that this is a big brother situation?

Chu: I don't think so. We're only using it to mail stuff to people.

Media: You're not calling recruits?

Chu: I don't think this contains telephone numbers.

Media: Yeah, it does.

Media: It certainly does.

Carr: One portion is --

Chu: Oh, okay.

Media: And the data that's collected from No Child Left Behind is included in this database, is that right?

Chu: No, no. It's not. This has no connection to No Child Left Behind.

Media: Why wouldn't that be included if you're going to be --

Chu: I think it was included, if I may say so, only in your article. Let me put on the record. It has no connection to No Child Left Behind. We do not merge this with No Child Left Behind --

Media: I was told that you do merge it with the opt outs from No Child Left Behind.

Chu: You can under the Privacy Act write in and say I don't want to be on your list and we then take you out of the list.

Media: How can anyone have opted out if they didn't know the program existed?

Chu: That's why we have a notice in the Federal Register.

Media: [Laughter].

woo

click to zoom

the self-fulfilling prophecy
so last night baby cuddles and the gotbot gave me a impromptu preview of what my scene is going to look like on stage. i started it off by saying, "let's be real - how many white guys DON'T have an asian fetish?" cuddles begrudingly agreed with me, and then then told a story about a white girl who was complaining that asian women area taking all the white men: "isn't there another part of the equation missing??!" he said dramatically. marg0t had been doing the dishes while this debate was raging. cuddles told her to stop doing the dishes. she kept doing them. at this point, i screamed.