things I love —
Dear friends (Asian writer friends!) Jenny and Meggy started a blog last year called Fashion for Writers which has quickly become one of my favorite internet treasures, not only for its confessional tidbits, its extensive pictorials and its mind-expanding use of language and anecdotes, but also for the simple fact that these girls have been [...]
Modern Family is hands down my favorite new show of the season: its pitch-perfect cast and remarkably assured tone have delivered what could easily be one of the strongest first seasons ever for a sitcom. And though it uses the now oft-imitated mockumentary style of The Office, execution is everything; it easily bypasses the [...]
This week is about consistency. And about acknowledging things that are killing it.
To kick it off: the sandwich. I know, to recognize the entire concept of the sandwich is about as ludicrous as Facebook claiming the entire internet as a giant Like, but good lord do I love sandwiches right now.
Gaga’s [...]
I can’t believe this week is almost over, but when I reflect on it I realize that it’s the smallest increments of time that seemed to matter the most.
On Monday night I wrote fiction for exactly 11 minutes and loved more than every minute of it.
On Tuesday I spent exactly 36 minutes studying [...]
All in all, 2009 was a remarkable year. Other outfits have already compiled their Best of Decade lists but personally I think it’s a bit premature for that — give it some distance, fellas.
Still, it’s pretty safe to say that 2009 was a banner one, and my suspicion is that it will end up [...]
It doesn’t end there
Ok, a few corrections are in order: unfortunately I made it to the gym not 75 times in 2008 but 73. Woefully short of my target of 100, but I blame the cold December and the ridiculous sickness that had me bed-ridden for 2 weeks (nevermind the pace I was keeping those other 11 months).
On [...]
I’ve compiled some preliminary statistics for 2008. Here’s how it went down:
75 73 visits to the gym.
29 31 movies seen in a movie theater.
19 books read, excluding graphic novels/comic collections (est. 12-15).
15 writing sessions of 30 minutes or more.
28 blog posts written.
8 trips taken to places outside the Bay Area/Illinois.
And here are some of [...]
So SNL’s ratings have been absolutely killer this election season and while the explosion of Tina Fey has been nothing but all-around goodness, I realized that for me the most indelible moment of all of the election skits was actually this one. I think it was while watching this that it finally hit me [...]
Listen up, Gmail: You’ve been my favorite web app for years and single-handedly started the whole Web 2.0 revolution so I’ve been cutting you some slack but WHAT’S WITH THE SUDDEN PROBLEMS LOADING PAGES??? What are all these new scripts I imagine must be churning in the background? The colored labels are nice [...]
