Saw my old Chinese teacher from the ICLP program in the translation acknowledgments of an incredible piece of Taiwanese queer speculative fiction (The Membranes) First Shabu-Shabu in a year and a half: https://www.springshabu.com/ Celebrated 4th of July by taking in a US anthem lip sync from Marti Allen-Cummings !!! Made all the more p...

my home city, and a place that feels very weird to me. I typically go back 2 or 3 times a year to see family, but I haven't been able to since December 2019 because of COVID-19. My heart has ached so much over the last 18 months with the simple desire to give my mom a hug. So I just spent a week in the city, this time staying in Downto...

first time in a theater in 15 months magical jellies left: god's creation; right: man's creation have you ever heard of a dessert called a fool?? first time on the NYC subway in 15 months https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/28/remembering-janet-malcolm-who-wrote-and-lived-with-bravery-and-kindness She's a maniac, maniac on the f...

💀💀💀💀 + cute lil permanent retainer teeth had been showing up a lot for me in recent months (see: the 7th entry in this recent post) so obviously I was psychosomatically setting myself up for tooth troubles. And guess what, I had to get all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed this week (!!!). It was my first time experiencing complete general ...

RANKED CHOICE!! has! arrived! in NYC! (This is for the 2021 New York City mayoral Democratic and Republican primaries on June 22, 2021). I am so excited to participate in a ranked choice election. I genuinely believe that we would have a different president today (and not Trump) if we had a ranked choice election for the 2020 Democrati...

Phantom of the Opera + Faust + Hitchcock + Rocky Horror Picture Show + Frankenstein + The Little Mermaid + The Picture of Dorian Gray ==

烏 なぜ啼くの (Karasu naze nakuno) my grandfather texted me a couple weeks ago to ask if I remembered a Japanese nursery song he taught me when I was a kid: I can't read or understand Japanese, so this is a completely Google Translate-assisted convo: he asks if I remember the song, and I reply of course, and with a video I found on YouTube T...

There was a point this week where I noticed a lot of what I was reading and holding onto was intersecting under a wider umbrella: the implications and human cost of tech scalability/accessibility; technology as mere reflection, catalyst, and/or driver of wider ills in society; how we understand/learn about tech's externalities and hold...

645am light I had never seen Jumanji before 🦇🐒🦟🦁🦏🐘🐊 Just the right amount of tackiness/wackiness for a drive-in A 13-yo Kirsten Dunst ⭐ Enjoyed a fruity sour beer descriptively named Purple Beer at local brewery High Nine a fine English breakfast fry: chipolatas, baked beans, mash, bacon, fried eggs, buttered toast, fried tomato, iced ...

eggs as insult In Mandarin, there are a whole host of insults based around the word egg. This was very funny to my brothers and me growing up as we had only the most basic awareness of Chinese: • húndàn (混蛋, mixed egg), wándàn (完蛋, finished egg), wángbādàn (王八蛋, this one is a very complicated reference to turtles that also somehow gets...

Solaris / 2001 Solaris / Upstream Color via Kneipp's Lavender Bath Oil a conversation between Gloria Steinem and Vanessa Springora, the latter of whom wrote the completely devastating and spell-binding book Consent 小白菜 (baby bok choy) my absolute favorite vegetable finally the streets of new york city are rightfully tarred and feathere...

livin' in a box summer interlude they are beauty, they are grace, they are elegance and taste happy birthday brudda Meet Dante, A Rhodesian Ridgeback that once won Best in Show my beautiful beautiful friend Reid released the most delightful music video for his song, Pillow Song, on Friday mangod

it was a dark, heavy, relentless week. Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, the continuing trauma of George Floyd's murder at the Derek Chauvin trial. The villainization of victims, the villainization of justified outrage. brutality at the protests protesting police brutality, brutality all the way down. Jim Pagels. An urbanist and bike safety ...

in 2016, I became aware of Rao's in two different ways and I don't remember which came first. 1. one night I came home to my roommate making a nice heaping plate of simple spaghetti and tomato sauce. I sat down to say hello and he proudly showed me the tomato sauce he was using: Rao's. He said this was the very best tomato sauce, a tru...

at my happiest, - I'm going to the movies several times a week (mainly repertory) - only a few people are at the screening - I'm able to sit in my favorite seat and exit quickly through a quiet little side door - I recognize a person or two and we might say a brief hello between screenings and there's no better place to do this than in...

yesterday, I had the completely silly experience of meeting a pack of 5 alpacas I learned alpacas are an entirely domesticated breed, and are distant relatives of the camel 🐫. They like being around people, but don't particularly like being petted/touched ⛔👉🏻👈🏻⛔ a group of alpacas is actually called a herd, but I think a pack o' alpaca...

You've made it nearly to the end! This is your final clue. Go to the site of a former body of water where the S.S. ________ used to make berth. Look for a box that has “Peter” written on it in large neon green lettering.

“What final pre-pandemic memory do you keep returning to? What were you and your loved ones or colleagues talking about a year ago?” When: February 20, 2020 Where: NYC, driving to JFK Airport for a flight to South America Mental state: Harried, running late Medium: Phone call -- My mom: are you bringing any masks with you? Me: Why mask...

I've been writing on Substack, but now I'm jumping headfirst into a brand spankin' new space for writing/sharing: world.hey.com ! For some context, hey.com is a paid email provider that unfurled to much fanfare this past summer. I was collapsing under the weight of the 5-8 personal email addresses I use, and so what better way to comba...

Migrated from Instagram to Substack, now migrating from Substack to Hey World. Writing as a part of an Iron Blogger and toying with how I experience, articulate, and share my way through the world. Friends & loved ones: I’ll send a missive to your email once a week, generally Sunday nights!