In an Asian market in San Mateo, my mother, sister and I stand and get a short talk about American Ginseng from a nervous young Chinese American woman. Beside her are plastic cups full of a pale yellow broth, and a hotpot with chicken, ginseng and seaweed stewing in it. As I wait for our [...]
Entries from December 2008
December 25, 2008
1 Thing About Marriage Equality
I live in a country where you can be straight and get married at the end of a game show after having met just a few weeks before, and be gay and know each other for 20 years and not be able to be married.
December 15, 2008
Messenger Bag Contents Also A Guide To My Blog
My friend Jane made up a blog meme and then tagged me. She asked us to take everything out of our bags right when she emailed us, and to put the contents list on our blogs. The bag is a messenger bag, World-Map orange, goretex-lined, waterproof, bought at the Jack Spade store in New York [...]
December 7, 2008
I Am Either Where You Think I Am, Or, Not
It snowed this morning. It’s the first snow of the year. I woke up and there was the beautiful light off the snow in the kitchen as I came downstairs. I felt released from the fall. I took a break from updating for a while partly because the methods by which I’ve maintained this blog [...]
December 1, 2008
Irma Vep, The Next Generation
From Warren Ellis’s blog, the results of an open call to remake the character of Irma Vep. This one is my favorite, by an up and comer named Daniel Heard:
