WHEEEE

jeff yang's column on hyphen in the sf chronicle

please subscribe already so we can put out our four damn issues a year

after two months, i have ventured to put the contacts back in. so far so good.
notes: everything looks HUGE. do i now look like those people when you see them without their glasses?
first order of business: plucking eyebrows, then trimming bangs (both much MUCH harder to do with glasses)

my new and improved site is live!

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i caught jonestown: the life and death of the peoples temple on pbs tonight - my friend from high school chrissy turner was the assistant producer on this film - man, it is powerful - i actually didn't know much about this whole thing (like it was originally based at fillmore and geary), do check it out if you ever stumble upon it on tv or netflix or green cine etc etc etc - sidenote: way back when (ok 1998) chrissy and i coined the term 'biracial-dar' (or 'bd' for short) as in 'biracial radar' because we swore we could tell who was biracial just by looking at them - i still swear i am better at that shit than at least 85 percent of the population - we maintained we had this special skill because we were both biracial (chrissy is blackinese) - but now i know i am actually bi-ethnic (tho i find it really hard to believe my parents are the same race since they come from such different backgrounds/cultures)

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gloria recommended i watch kicking and screaming (baumbach, not ferrell) a looong time ago, and i finally saw it a few months back - i did not totally love it right after i saw it, though i find myself thinking about it often now - mainly because of this badass song that plays at the very end that reminds me of circa 96 - i pray that someday i find a karaoke binder that has this so i can sing my little mid-90s-gen-x-slacker movie heart out

THE MILK TEA SMELLS SO ODORIFEROUS
if you want to know the full story about my eye problems, listen to this npr story — it is exactly what happened to me and involves the same contact solution i used

also, our websites relaunched - spiffy!

finally, i was looking for a good recipe for milk tea, and i found this delightful website



let me know if you have any tips on how to make it

4. Done

HYPHEN 4 LYFE

hey just a plug that the newest issue of HYPHEN (issue 12: the transit issue) has arrived in a fine book selling establishment near you. please pick up a copy and support the magazine (even tho we don't get any money from newsstand sales, it shows them the mag is popular and therefore keeps it in stock). here is a list of where you can find em. you can't miss it - ali wong is on the cover


HILAR

**I move away from the mic to breathe in

ONE OF THESE IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS

some recent searches people made to find this blog:

-why keep stoner boyfriend
-the song with the lyrics i've got the brains, he's got the looks, he's into tv, im into bookks
-work at bebe
-julia's boobs [HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA]
-too much gouda

"I want to talk about books; he wants to talk about 1408." - min

also: i am blogging regularly (at least every friday) at the HYPHEN blog. i know it looks kinda janky now, but we will be relaunching soon - right melanie?

the rodney dangerfield tone of this story mystifies me: hello, we're still more prestigious than union leaders, stockbrokers, entertainers, accountants, bankers, actors, and real estate agent/brokers. so eat that.