1. My haircut looks like a pageboy cut from the front and a bob from the side. I LOVE IT. I look like something out of a yuri manga, by which I mean I look like the plain, bespectacled heroine ( Read more... )

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Two highlights from the galleries we visited (which was not even a third of the massive 798 Art District). The very first show was underground in an echoing dark tunnel--nobody was there to greet or receive visitors and everything was poorly lit, and we had to puzzle out the titles and artists of the unlabeled paintings for ourselves, but hey, that ( Read more... )

I spent the day with my second-favorite cousin scouring Beijing looking for the 3rd volume of Special Comix, apparently China's premier indie comics collective, but we came up empty. It's 140 RMB, man! $20 for over 600 pages of barfing soccer balls:


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I forgot about the fucking censors. Twitter is blocked, all of Blogger/Blogspot is blocked, Facebook is possibly blocked? At least LJ is no longer blocked, so I can express my deep and unending hate for China to all of you. Hi ( Read more... )

Before I go, my NYRs:

1) Stop obsessing.
2) Stop obsessing.
3) Stop obsessing.
4) Stop--
5)
6) Try not to go crazy in China.

It may yet be possible!

Yo, I'm headed to China for a month. My iPhone will be on airplane mode after the 27th to avoid roaming charges. There is a good chance I am going to lose my mind. Email me if you need me: k.angie.wang@gmail.com.

It's funny. I landed in L.A. earlier tonight, and unexpectedly--it was night and my mom was driving me from the airport back to our house in the suburb of Thousand Oaks; I saw two lines of orange road studs set against a road I used to drive every day on the way to school and later to work, and unexpectedly--oh man, I felt my heart seize with love ( Read more... )

Σ(゜Д゜;) How did I not know that Southwest has tickets from Portland to NYC for $164? $164! That is only $40 more than what I pay to go down to LA! All this time I could've been going to New York instead. Do you guys know how much I love Southwest? I love Southwest ( Read more... )

I caved and bought a copy of Skim from Powell's--their last copy. I didn't want to like it, but... to tell you the truth, haha... I was really impressed. I'm thinking of ordering a second copy for my BFF in Thousand Oaks ( Read more... )