this past week, i

a. went to a justice show by accident
b. celebrated the anniversary of my first break-up
c. edited a medical study on immigrant depression
d. actually kind of felt like a compassionate human being
e. slept for 15 hours straight

speaking of 15,

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i was supposed to go to a taping of radio lab thursday night. never made it. which i was quite fine with after waiting 30 minutes at the angelika, hilariously packed to the gills with hipster-ish npr nerds who had just gotten off work. the best conditions for listening to this show are in bed in the dark just before you're falling asleep anyway. so ( Read more... )

homemade glutinous riceballs with sesame paste in ginger soup, or tangyuan

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the iron fist of pop culture only tightens its grip when you struggle against it. this is why as a society we need to embrace bad taste with a certain humorous foreboding. most things in hindsight become curiously poignant in our efforts to understand them. everything in our world is simply our imposition of meaning upon it.

and yet...

• MTV
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