new audrey story on lupus among aa women on my clips site

NEON BIBLE

still searching flickr for some good shots of the arcade fire at the greek last night - it was the most crowded i have ever seen it!






awesome show. s-fist has a write up and some vids.

I BLOGGED!!!!!

please comment!!

finally figured out how to send photos from camera phone to email!

tunnel top last friday:

written on chalkboards upstairs, re: carvings on the walls


tray of grey goose


steve + tan in steve's korea hat + nizar

from archives:


02/04/06: where was this??


view from deyoung roof, dec. 2005


nob hill, jan. 2006


laur and dad, dec. 2005

NUFF SED
"I think Stanford should admit her. She is obviously smarter than the people who she convinced to board her for 8 months"
"She didn't go to Cal because it blows"
"I'm a current student in Kimball, and what pisses me off the most is that she got free food. That stuff is money!"

have had a lot on the mind lately - mostly occupied with using 'the secret' to send positive energy out about getting this job i REALLY want. everyone else send please positive vibes my way!

some notes:
-summer is almost here, tho it doesn't feel like it at the moment. i've still been wearing my winter coats this week.
-kid brother rj is FI-NAL-LY moving to the city - w0o0o0o.
-becoming obsessed with wearing vests - lame/cool? [robot? pa? where are you?]
-FI-NAL-LY saw the host on saturday @ red vic - so good!
-the no sex guy at powell and market said to steve 'hey, no more sex, player'

my sister told me this story about how she was having dinner with my aunt in new york, and they were eating dinner at a communal table with a group of white people. as my sister was leaving, the white people stopped her, and asked where she and my aunt were from - the 'no, where are you REALLY from' conversation ensued - and my sister asked why they were asking. they said 'we've never heard asians who speak english so well!' my sister looked at them and said 'really?? where are YOU from??' the answer was virginia.

Please do not take this personally, “Reply All” people, but: everybody hates you.

steve has accused me of reading the times' book review as a substitute for actually reading books, but he's just jealous that i spend my free time consuming information through sources that don't include the words 'you' or 'tube' (contrary to my previous post and this photo:)



anyways, i read the entire book review on vices a few weeks ago and highly enjoyed it, especially this review on a book about e-mail. i chuckled at all the way through. and seriously i hate 'reply all' people!!

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aasif mandvi, i love you

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everybody hates you, too, big group restaurant birthday people

SWEET TIRED

youtube-obsessed steve and i have been SO. INTO. THIS. for the past month.



yeah, so?

FIRES

shitty week for beloved landmarks. shocked at the news eastern market burned down - lin and i wandered in there many moons ago, and he stopped me from buying overpriced tacky earrings.

also catalina island, which was my dream place to live when i was 13...

then surrounded by flames is griffith observatory, where i've wanted to go since developing an interest in men in turned-up collars. oh who am i kidding, i've wanted to go since keanu.

it was also hot as hades in the bay earlier this week. something about going out at night without a sweater that feels wrong, unnatural here. you feel so warm, like your insides are on fire, and you might just -

SHOOTINGS

as i so eloquently said at yesterday's editors meeting (and using the words of the inimitable hillary duff), "virginia tech is gonna be so over, like, yesterday." that's the news biz, baby. i blinked and missed the chance to blog something about this (unlike everyone i know on xanga), but it continues to disturb me how strongly the APA community believes that more and improved mental health services are the "solution" to avoiding tragedies like this. it only strengthens my belief in the how misguided the community can be and how, without fail, it finds the wrong culprit for our problems (abercrombie and fitch? rosie? cmon).

i found this beautifully written and well-informed new yorker piece. we will never solve the problem of mentally ill - we will probably never even make a dent into shrinking that population. shouldn't we focus our energy on something we CAN do something about?

THERE'S NO STOPPING NEIGHBORHOOD SCAMP DENNIS AL MENACE

shit, this was the one i meant to post (the other one is funny too tho)


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BRIGHTLY COLORED BURKAS

IN YOUR EASTER BONNET


forget the ten commandments. watching easter parade was an annual event in my household. judy garland, fred astaire, and that fantastic scene at the end when they promenade down "the avenue...fifth avenue" with all the other blue bloods and those amazing hats.

i didn't believe my aunt last weekend when she said they still do the easter parade today in manhattan, but the sartorialist says i was wrong.

THE ECONOMIST
jpark tipped me off to a post on john tierney's times blog about the numbers game in speed dating. a lot if gems in here; i suggest you read.

By tracking the success of online daters, the researchers calculated precisely how much extra income a man had to make (relative to the average man’s income of $62,500 per year) to offset a less than ideal attribute. Some of their findings:

Suppose you’re an ordinary-looking guy whose online picture is ranked around the median in attractiveness. (In the study, the ratings of attractiveness were done by independent male and female observers hired by the researchers.) And suppose you’d like to be as successful with women as a guy whose picture is ranked in the top tenth. Then you’d need to make $143,000 more than him. If your picture is ranked in the bottom tenth, you’d need to make $186,000 more than him.

Similarly, according to the study, a 5-foot-0 guy would need to make $325,000 more than a 6-foot-0 man to be as successful in the online dating market. A 5-foot-4 man would need $229,000; a 5-foot-6 man would need $183,000; a 5-foot-10 man would need $32,000. And if that 6-foot-0 man wanted to do as well as a 6-foot-4 man, he’d need to make $43,000 more.

For women in the online study, shorter is better. A 5-foot-6 women would need to make $59,000 more than a 5-foot-0 or 5-foot-2 woman to do as well. She’d need to make $50,000 more than a 5-foot-4 woman.

i've got a new article in the april/may issue of audrey - check it out here.

i'm doing a workshop at berkeley's api conference this weekend, part of a hyphen backrom deal to extend our power over young impressionable college types. here is the workshop description. it may sound familiar to anyone from ecaasu 2005 in philadelphia. come heckle!

hey have you all seen junebug yet? i saw it this weekend, and i only cried like five times really. i think it was cuz i was emotional (tho NOT pre-menstrual) but still really moving. add it to the queue!!

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from a few weeks ago - the crew at rickshaw stop (taken by snuggles)

shit like this makes me miss new york so

THIS ONE ALMOST MADE ME FALL OFF THE TREADMILL
cue the sex and the city music.

"i started to wonder: when you talk about your exes' new relationships, are you really just talking about the two of you?"

and

hide the fart

NUGGETS
there's a woman in the office who every day eats frozen chicken nuggets topped with frozen vegetables (corn/peas/sad carrot cubes) for lunch and late afternoon snack. she keeps the costco-sized bags in the fridge and heats them up in the microwave. there is more sadness to this than i can articulate.

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a comment from chai:

i was noticing how easy it is to type your blog name into the web address bar, and realized that 3 out of the 4 letters of your name are on the default keys (asdfjkl;). it really makes a person more likely to visit your blog!

re: philana's comment about what is offensive (see ny post) -
always a good question. i think i've reached the age when i can't get offended all the time anymore. maybe it's age, or seeing the bigger life picture, or maybe it's the onslaught of media/ideas/words i'm exposed to every day. i just don't have enough anger in my reserves to react to every little thing, plus i'm so outraged by other things (iraq, sexism, violence, the 9 express bus).
related, i just read a post about this on reappropriate (run by a gal who some of you know, i think?), and it's something i've been wondering about for a few years. bethany and i always discussed when the time would come when bullshit representation/stereotypes/racist remarks issues would stop being The Major rallying issues among apa activists (esp. college aged). i think it's important for people to know when these things happen, but in terms of organizing protests or petitions, it's really a waste of time.

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this song has been in my head ALL DAY, especially the whistle solo intro: