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i woke up early on the fourth of july
My New Year's Day was perfect. Even if I have the bare minimum of "work" to do for my agency, it's just not the same as having a whole day off. Even one casting can occupy a huge portion of daylight...
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dud on the tracks
Could somebody please press the little green button on the stop time machine? I'm not ready for the Chinese New Year holiday to end yet. I need one more week.One more week to have eight-hour...
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far cathay
I'm still pretty high from Chinese New Year. The prolonged break from the frustrations of ladypose moil, combined with the fact that I'm reading The Travels of Marco Polo, a mostly-true catalog of...
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"Shanghai Slice"The song is "Wètètié Maré by Muluqèn Mèllèssè, from Ethiopiques 1. Hope you like it!
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drop her in the water
"Hey Elyse, where'd you get that unsightly abrasion on your ass?""Well, I was balancing on a velour-covered eraser-shaped plywood prism precariously propped on a tripod inside this velour-lined plywood...
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hola hovelito
My Hong Kong agency emailed me: "Elyse, we have castings for you, we have jobs for you; we're waiting for you to get your ass down here, thanks." I arrived in Hongers an hour ago; my heart was breaking...
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pope papular
On the personal tip, dear reader, I've been discombobulated. I've been working a lot whilst conquering the most pustulent and cystic breakout of my life. Ugh: clients have looked at my face, grimaced,...
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prada socklet
If you're interested in the fashion industry, you may be aware that at Prada's S/S09 runway show back in September, several models stumbled or fell down on the catwalk. The company later explained that...
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i wasn't lookin for a mountain
Are you guys more into plastrons or carapaces?I would like to shake hands with the bitch who could wear these impractical shoes for more than an hour without the universe somehow ruining them. Puddles...
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you can't beat solidarity
Mandarin pop enthusiasts, I have a favor to ask of you: does anyone recognize the first song in this video (it starts at about :20)? Can you hook up the title and artist, or an mp3? Sorry to make you...
View Articlefai di
I can hear my next door neighbors perfectly. They fight a lot but they like to get busy! They're doing it right now. The girl groaned, in Canto, "fai di!" ("hurry up!"). I was like, ooh, harsh, but...
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clockin a grippe
I possess a finite amount of good taste, and I choose to apply it to books, music, snacks, and congee flavors. Crabmeat and roe congee:Sweet-potato flavored Kit Kat:I just don't have enough available...
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stop having a boring tuna
I went impulse shopping in the travel agency and came out with a weekend trip to the Republic of China. Greetings from Taipei! Look at all those Japanese cars driving on the right-hand side of the...
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ROC. K?
As expected, Taipei has yielded up some good gems. We have a lot to talk about.The other day, my friend described electronically-translated, no-sense-making Chinese menus as "poetic." Huh. I always...
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it was a strange lookin mountain
Q: Do I have more pics and shit from Taiwan?A:On my last day in Taipei, I took the subway to the northern outskirts of the city, where the 'burbs give way to mountains. At the subway station, most...
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unrelenting torrent of pics from Taipei: shopping edition
Frequently asked question: Did you buy that thing?Answer: Usually, no. I've been traveling for so long that my acquisitive impulse has been crushed like a hideous Taiwanese bead sculpture in an...
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watermelon mt.
I packed up and left Hong Kong about a week ago. It was the least frantic packing-up-and-leaving situation I've enjoyed in a long while: I organized my stuff more than an hour before I had to leave for...
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mein Lieblingsgemüse
Hey dudes. As of today, I'm on Euro vacation: warm greetings from the Continent.I had a li'l layover this afternoon in the World's Second-Worst Airport (London Heathrow), just long enough to flip...
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quik pix von Deutschland
Gasthaus in Bad Bodendorf: restaurant, hotel, one-lane indoor bowling alley, time warp:1982: A very good year for bowling.Nobody bowled, but I knew I would've won. Eradicator!Spargelsuppe: cream of...
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forest crunk
Black Forest Folk.German highways don't just look immaculate when compared to the Bud can-strewn Adopt-a-Highways of the States and the styrofoam/cig butt/dead body/tea bottle graveyard roadsides of...
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comment solicitation (written in haste!)
Vienna was not really part of the plan, but I ended up here on a layover, awaiting a train to Budapest tomorrow morning. Arrived after midnight and just got back from a long walk around: maybe my blood...
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fault linez
I always scold myself on the kinda-rare occasions that I buy emergency socks or underwear instead of doing laundry: like, how wasteful and disorganized. How contemptible! But oops, life got so entropic...
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my place in the old world
I may have slept too long on composing this entry: my Euro vacation is over and I'm back in Albuquerque; so much has happened between then/there and now/here that I feel like I'm trying to write about...
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hungarian product bonanza
Új! (pronounced "ooh-ee") = New! Cold cherry soup. I tried this stuff years ago when my beloved Hungarian ex-roommate Olga whipped some up in Hong Kong. No Hungarian model ever leaves home without a...
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