A good, poignant read that made me get all teary.
“I love my mother a not-normal amount. It’s all twisty because she tried to kill me when I was young. Just kidding. My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort.”
have my official NPR tote bag at my new desk in the new office. am real employee now. (at NPR News Headquarters)
some redundancy at the Asian supermarket! (at Great Wall Supermarket (大中華))
RIP Roger Ebert. Celebrated film critic and total bad ass.
Via Kat Chow, here’s Ebert at Sundance 2002, addressing a fellow audience member (and fellow white man)’s complaint that director Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow did an ‘amoral’ job of representing Asian Americans. “What I find very offensive and condescending about your statement is, nobody would say to a bunch of white filmmakers ‘How could you do this to your people?’” yells Ebert. “This film has the right to be about these people, and Asian American characters have the right to be whoever the hell they want to be! They do not have to ‘represent their people’!” (Longer transcript here.)
(Via Colorlines)
(Source: colorlines.com)
treat yo’self. #recipeforhappiness #glutenfree #justbaked
Was cleaning out my digital archive when I found this photo I took in winter of 2008. Hoiping, China, right outside the house where my dad grew up. This makes me feel all the things.
“I could also feel the way people wanted me to fit into an idea of the type of Asian male they were comfortable with. Both sides made it hard to be myself. I was often described as quiet, studious, easygoing, book-smart but not street-smart, and some of these descriptions stuck in a self-fulfilling way. It took me much of my life to realize that I was molding myself to a stereotype.”
Right in the feels:
“Brought home in a bag, Meeno, Hiroyuki Ito’s cat, was a terror and a delight who brought comfort to Mr. Ito during an illness. Later, their inverted roles were reversed.”
A REALLY GOOD READ THAT EVERY JOURNALIST AND WRITER SHOULD READ. JUST READ IT, OKAY?
Rocking my mom’s old flats this sunny morning, in memory of her style and class. She was the real deal.
Ya know, Morning Edition, with Steve Inskeep and Linda Wertheimer. (at NPR Headquarters)
The maroon quadruplets
Perfectly themed radio bracelet via the always stylish @nwfoodette. Hearts.
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BLACK FRIDAY.
Not quite top-to-bottom twins, but we all wore black shirts.
August 25, 2012
eatin’ b-fast in my new room. I made two eggs which were fine but the cereal kinda made me sick. Back in Greece there was this...
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