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Too Many Teeth

I’m finally recovered from my wisdom teeth surgery. The event itself wasn’t so bad, because I was under “twilight sleep” where I was told I would experience “no pain or no memory of pain.” Obviously the first one is the better one. I think that’s what I got–I immediately fell asleep or fell into a [...]

Asians really want to be friends with me (a half-Asian)

I have 28 unanswered Facebook friend requests from people I don’t know. They’re nearly all Asian and live in Asia, so I’d expect them to have lots of Asian friends. But, weirdly, they seem to only have friends that are Asian girls. Sometimes hundreds and hundreds of them. My name doesn’t sound Asian, so I [...]

Thanksgiving recipes / review aggregation

I thought about how I use reviews over the holiday weekend. I went online to find vegan Thanksgiving recipes (I’m not vegan so I have no idea how to cook for them) and noticed that the only recipes I considered making were ones that had online reviews. I skipped recipes from the Food Network and [...]

Let the Christmas season begin

Every day is Buy Nothing Day when you are laid off and in Bush’s America. But if you do make one purchase for the holidays, consider making it this Santa hat/beard combo I found in Duane Reade. I’m thinking of using mine to make extra money this December as the Williamsburg Apple Store Santa. What [...]

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