Category Archive: Pop Culture

Apr 01

Trapped in the Cliché

A lot of my friends are perplexed about the fact that I’m a fan of R. Kelly.  I assume this is, in part, because I’m Asian (and those confused friends are Asian or Caucasian), but mostly because of his very public and disturbing indiscretions.  While I definitely don’t condone what has come out about his private …

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Sep 12

Check Me Out

As much as it’s documented that I’ve always hated going to mall with my mom, I always enjoyed going to the grocery store with her.  There are many reasons for this: being able to get a sneak peak on what my mom was going to make for dinner for the upcoming week, getting candy and …

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Mar 07

Release Point

It has been well documented in my writings that Chris and I have very similar tastes in music, film, and humor.  It’s something that we’ve both acknowledged from the beginning of our friendship and over the past 11 years, if our tastes have evolved, they’ve continued to evolve down those shared paths.  So when Rob …

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Jan 17

Foodgasm

Back in college, my friends and I became fascinated with Claim Jumper’s chocolate chip calzone, which is coincidentally probably the fattiest dessert known to man.  It is exactly how it sounds: it’s like a pizza calzone, but instead of being filled with sauce and meat, it’s filled with white chocolate and milk chocolate chips, and …

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Sep 27

Suffer for Fashion

The previous time I was in New York, I was visiting Bruce for his birthday.  I was also detoxing from a relationship, picking up the pieces of my life scattered all over the Northern and Southern California.  My life had changed a lot since the breakup: I found a new job, a new group of …

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Sep 20

MakeupOverload Dot Com

When I worked at certain retail store, I had this co-worker who drove a pick up truck, listened to metal, and never smiled.  He mainly worked in the back of the store and I had no problem with him, because he was a pretty nice and quite guy and also frankly, because I quit around …

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May 17

Ready, Enabled (Some Kind of Monster 1.5)

Some time ago, I wrote a story about my mother and her shopping habits and I promised that I would run an experiment to see if I could curb those habits.  I came up with an experiment to see if I’ll ever be able to put up with my mom at the mall.  I announced …

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Jul 20

Rave and Rant

Sometimes I’ll go to the mall and see a group of teens and wonder if the kids these are days are getting uglier or if just looking ugly is the new trend.  I definitely didn’t look like that and neither did anyone I went to high school with.  From the hair style to the make …

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