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Thursday, November 26, 2009 |
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Thanksgiving 2009
Location: 18:00 yest, baking cookies in the UWS Mood: thankful Music: Oh, I can cook too, on top of the rest
Me: I'm gonna be 40 soon.
Her: (puzzled) You're 36. Me: Oh it's there. It's there. Don't think I could write anything better than what I wrote last year for Thanksgiving 2008 so I'll just direct you there. My house still smells of fresh baked cookies from Heartgirl. Hope you have something similar. Happy Turkey Day, people!
YASYCTAI: Be thankful for your dumb luck. It'll keep you from being a douche. (5 mins/1 pt)
Labels: dialogue, thanksgiving
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
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You will
Location: my usual black chair Mood: groggy Music: a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee
Me: You mean you watch the whole thing? Y'don't just fast forward to the action?
Him: No, I want to hear the plot. Me: Plot?! There's no plot; it's always something like: guy shows up to deliver pizza, girl steps outta the shower, and oh, she has no money to pay him. What to do? What to do? Oh my! I've appeared to drop my towel... Him: (laughing) I still like to see what happens. Me: Y'know what happens - nuthin that ever happens in real life, that's what happens. Grand thespians, they're assuredly not. Been looking at a buncha ebook readers lately for myself.
In NYC, the average rent is $30-35 per square foot per year. A bookshelf takes up about a three square feet of space. I would need three for alla the books I got. That's a nine square foot footprint, or $270-$315 a year for rent just to keep my books.
Ergo, ebook reader.
The issue is that alla the screens're too small. Don't wanna have to get surgery on my eyes to repair them to save $270-$315; that makes no sense. The Kindle DX has a huge screen but no way to zoom; the iRex reader has a huge screen and zoom but's crazy expensive and dim.
So, looks like I gotta wait.
Hate waiting for the future to come. According to television, we were supposta all get jet cars by now.
And television never lies.
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Then again - was 20 when those ads in the vid above first came out.
Funny thing is that every single onea those things the guy said turned true.
In fact, I've done all but threea those things he said.
Listen to the voice, know who he is?
YASYCTAI: Be hopeful. You'll live longer. And happier. (525,600 minutes /3 pts) www.loganlo.com
Labels: change, dialogue, hope, nostalgia
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
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Fridays Online
Location: 19:00 yest, cooking pork for the first time in kitch Mood: inspired Music: we the stars Steady rockin' on y'alls boulevards
Paul stopped by my place the other night. There was a time when I'd spend mosta my time with him chatting about Heartgirl rather than the other way round.
He's still (kinda) living the life of a singleton - he's got his front-runner - as're lotsa my other friends. S'funny, the charm of being single's the potential to meet someone that makes you not.
This salesman named Alan Stillman was tired of being single so he started a bar to pick up girlies on 63rd Street and 1st Ave back in 1965. Dunno if it worked but kinda shows what people'll do to not be by their lonesome.
Which kinda makes me wonder why people don't explore the avenues out there to meet someone appropriate.
Like online dating - dunno why anyone's got anything against it. The actual meeting of a body makes it just as normal as anything else. Sides, how's it any more likely you're gonna meet your better half in some smoky bar?
Said it before, it's like y'got this aunt named Match or something like that, who says to you, "I know that guy/girl that y'might like." Plus, how often when you go out and about do you also get a resume of the person in front of your face?
Oh, the name of the joint that that guy Stillman started was TGI Friday's - he also started Smith & Wollensky's, the joint that HG brought me on my bday.
Y'probably aren't gonna meet someone right for you in TGI Friday's but you get my point.
YASYCTAI: Try cooking something completely new today. (30 mins/1 pt)
Labels: dating, friends, nightlife
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
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Monuments
Location: 20:00 yest, stuck outside Penn Station Mood: grateful Music: I'm down to a whisper In a daydream on a hill
DC was nice, as always.
Went there and back via train. Neither my life nor the trains I ride run on (or close) to schedule.
The weather was amazing on Sunday so we took a walk to Lincoln and Vietnam Memorial. Turns out the reflecting pool does actually reflect - it's a mobile phone shot but y'can still see it.
Nuthin like it on a nice sunny day with the blue sky.
Went to the Vietnam Memorial for the first time. Quite something. Dunno if y'know this but Ross Perot sponsored a design competition for it and when Maya Lin, a 21 year-old Asian nobody - a gook - won it with a black slab, he and a tona others were pissed. Onea them shouldn't be building a Vietnam Memorial.
The New York Times, headlined, Insulting Vietnam Vets. Where were the statues, the flags? Looked like a tombstone.
Kinda reminds me of alla the political ruckus over everything these days. Everyone's so sure they're right; all this sound and fury signifying nuthin.
So a few meters away from the memorial that was actually built, Perot had a statue put up.
A teenage girl was talking on her cell phone when I went to visit and about a third of the way in, think she finally realized what she was reading, hung up her phone, and quietly walked the resta the way.
Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, all the critics did similar things when the actually saw the thing. Every organization that attacked Maya later apologized.
Cause Maya knew that when you put up names, a lista people kids that got themselves killed for a country that hated them, it's hard to ignore that they existed.
It's quite something.
YASYCTAI: Have you taken a walk lately? Y'should. (60 mins/1 pt)
Labels: blue sky, dating, ghosts
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
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Me Again
Location: on my couch Mood: refreshed Music: Please allow me to introduce myself
At the enda Interview with Vampire, we find out this once wild vampire's alive. But he's a shella himself - scared and scarred.
Hold that thought.
Contrary to what most people think, the fast food fight isn't between McDonald's and Burger King. McDonalds has about 31,000 stores across the world but Subway will have more than 32,000 by the end of the year. Cause during this yeara horrible economic times, Subway profits grew by 17%.
It went from number whatever to number one cause it saw it's chances and took them.
And Wayne Gretzky said that, You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. It's all about seeing your chances and taking them.
There's been debate as to JFK's notion that the Chinese word for crisis is an amalgam of the characters danger and opportunity - but that doesn't make it less true a concept. Crisis's when y'can take your shots.
The breakup, the theft, the car accident, my grandmother leaving, and the cancer scare took their toll on me. Once told someone that as a lawyer, a fencer and a kickboxer, wasn't afraida nuthin. But the last three years, was scared and scarred. Of everything (cept maybe the girlies).
A body can only handle so many crises.
Three years's enough to not take my shots, to be onea those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
After three years, a twelveth of my life, not only am I home again, feel like I'm me again.
Gonna be in DC over the weekend. Catch you next week.
YASYCTAI: Take your shots. (0.5 secs/3 pts)
Labels: hope, traveling, troubles
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:: Posted by Me @ 8:52 AM ::  
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Monday, November 09, 2009 |
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Five miles in Manhattan
Location: my bed Mood: artistic Music: Never know what we will see. Come take a walk with me.
Me: Too nice a day to wrestle. Wanna take a walk?
Her: Sure.
Me: I think they extended the bike path on the west side. We can walk down the new park.
Her: That sounds like fun. Can we go to the High Line? Me: Sure. (later) ...that is if we can ever find the entrance.
Her: It's funny, being tourists in your own city.
Me: I like it. It Reminds me of why I like this place so much.
Her: Do you want to walk to Trader Joe's? Me: (pointing) It's past that white building with the blue clock over there. Her: (amused) I've been to Union Square before, you know.
Me: Yes, I know. (laughing) I just pretend you never had a life before me.
YASYCTAI: Enjoy the nice days before they're gone. (240 mins/1 pt)
Labels: dialogue, New York City, NYC
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
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Durian
Location: my room, cleaning Mood: groggy Music: This is how it works You're young until you're not
Got a Hello today from Roberta, the girl I sat next to on the plane years ago. She's in college now and still traveling the globe from Italy.
What an interesting world we live in.
Had a full-on zero sleep the other night. The insomina's creeping back. Wondering why, but suppose it's just the way it is with me sometimes.
Saw the rents the other day and stopped by the local Asian supermarket for cheap produce and such. Saw a lotta non-asians there; laughed to myself only cause I can hardly make heads nor tails outta anything - then again, maybe they're all Asian scholars.
Can only imagine onea them picking up say a durian and going, "Why don't I give this a shot?"
A lotta young people too bouncing around. That's cool, that they're willing to shop in a joint where the only English spoken's with an accent.
Speaking of younger people, a lotta them're convinced that all Republicans're evil and that good things'll happen if everyone's a Democrat.
Which is not to say that the Republicans haven't bungled the last several years of power, they have. And there're d-bags and hypocrites on both sidesa the fence.
But the fence's sorta my point. There needs to be conflict to make things the way they're supposedta be. Y'know what y'get when you only have one party supported by millions of fanatical young people that are absolutely certain their cause is just, their party righteous?
China. Y'get China.
Love being Chinese but I cannot stand China. The government's as thuggish and vile as y'can get.
Nietzxche once said that "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." The key to not being a jerk is by accepting that y'might be wrong.
On that note, suppose I should really try a durian onea these days.
YASYCTAI: Have a guest for dinner tomorrow night. This means: clean up. (120 mins/1 pts)
Labels: flying, insomnia, quote, random meetings
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
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Halloween 2009
Location: 21:00 yest, Battery Park City Mood: groggy Music: you should be wilder, you're no fun at all
Her: Pennsylvania's not that far. It's only two hours away.
Me: Good grief, woman... HG: (finishing) ...that's exactly how far we thought it was! Stopped by PB's where I had my body weight in pixie sticks and rum after the rain. Heartgirl and I wore Star Trek uniforms that were way too big on us. Either medium in America isn't what it used to be or I'm shrinking. Just realized right this moment that for the past five Halloweens, wore red.
Him: ...so then I was like, "You're the class of 2013? That's crazy!" Me: Tell me about it - that's 20 years after I graduated. Him: (surprised) Wait, what? How old're you? Me: 36 - it's the Asian genes. Plus I drink the blood of a white baby every morning. Him: (nodding) Of course, who doesn't? Another Halloween done and gone. Suppose it'll be just a mattera time fore I'm the old dude that still gets dressed up for Halloween. I'm ok with that.
Me: Goodness, I do love Halloween. And women exercising questionable clothing choices. 72Suburbs: We love it, too. There're so few chances to exercise questionable taste Me: God bless you, 72Suburbs. God bless you. Saw RE Mike last night. He's been making lotsa deals and picked himself up a nice one-bedroom downtown. We were talking shop over some $6 Halal food and a bottlea red.
Me: ...so you walked outta the bank with $40K in cash to put a down payment on this place cause some guy dared you to? Him: I did get a little carried away. Me: Y'know if I were there, totally woulda robbed you. Him: Course. (phone rings) Speaking of which, this dude calling me's in jail. Been there for two months. Me: Why do you still talk to him? Him: No idea (picking up phone) yeah... Also met up with the lawyers been working with on some things. Went out to this crazy nice Italian joint and met their wives. Super nice, alla them. Says a lot about you when you meet someone's favourite person and they're exactly like y'thought they'd be.
November 2009, already. Where does the time go?
YASYCTAI: Buy next year's costume early. Never hurts to be prepared. (20 mins/0.5 pts)
Labels: dialogue, Halloween
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