J.A. Yang

Faye Wong in Chungking Express

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:12 -0700

Faye Wong in Chungking Express

"He was struck by [Gerwig’s] combination of “über-intellectual” and “every-girl connectivity,” he..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 08:00:05 -0700

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He was struck by [Gerwig’s] combination of “über-intellectual” and “every-girl connectivity,” he said, “which I find is very rare.”

“She intellectually understands what a lot of her problems are, as her characters, and yet is still incapable of overcoming those problems, which is something we all share and understand,” he said, “and she embodies that very naturally.”

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- Greta Gerwig Stars in ‘Lola Versus’ (2012)

(Bobby) Drake Institute for Higher Boarding #xmen Made for our...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:01 -0700

(Bobby) Drake Institute for Higher Boarding #xmen

Made for our ill fated Tahoe trip of 2011.

"It finally hit me, after all these years, that I’ve been looking at it wrong. It’s not what he does,..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:00:16 -0700

“It finally hit me, after all these years, that I’ve been looking at it wrong. It’s not what he does, but how he does it that is so mesmerizing. Rondo, it seems to me, is the NBA’s resident cubist. Using the rectangular dimensions of the court as his canvas, he takes everything we know about patterns, shapes, and space and bastardizes them in a distorted image that is as disorienting as it is inspiring.”

- Why We Watch: Rajon Rondo, Cubist

Hotshots of Street Basketball Doin’ It in the Park, a Film About...

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:46:00 -0700

Hotshots of Street Basketball Doin’ It in the Park, a Film About Pick-Up Basketball directed by DJ Bobbito

"Ten years ago I got into book publishing because I loved books, and three years later I got out of..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:29 -0700

“Ten years ago I got into book publishing because I loved books, and three years later I got out of the “biz,” because I loved books. Don’t get me wrong, working in publishing right out college was an amazing experience—the parties were cool, the gossip was great, and what English major wouldn’t want access to free books—but it started to change the way I felt about books.”

- Bold Type: Jenny Lee (200?)

Her new book Elvis and the Underdogs

Teens First, Asian Americans Second

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:00:16 -0700

Teens First, Asian Americans Second:

Showing the breadth of the Asian American experience is a hallmark of the new generation of Asian American teen novels: We didn’t all grow up in Chinatown as straight-A students with stoic parents. “A lot of literature in late ’80s and early ’90s was created to fulfill need of the ‘We need one novel per ethnic racial group,’” Chiu said, referring to the era’s rise of multiculturalism in school curricula. “Those books seem to be so stereotypical because they were written to fill that niche.”

Kimi Werner swims with a great white shark

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:13 -0700

Kimi Werner swims with a great white shark

"What are celebrities, after all? They dominate the landscape, like giant monuments to aspiration,..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:00:03 -0700

“What are celebrities, after all? They dominate the landscape, like giant monuments to aspiration, fulfillment and overreach. They are as intimate as they are grand, and they offer themselves for worship by ordinary people searching for a suitable object of devotion. But in times of widespread opportunity, the distance between gods and mortals closes, the monuments shrink closer to human size and the centrality of celebrities in the culture recedes. They loom larger in times like now, when inequality is soaring and trust in institutions — governments, corporations, schools, the press — is falling.”

- Celebrating Inequality

Ziga thrive in any climate. A most adaptable creature, Ziga...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:00:01 -0700

Ziga thrive in any climate. A most adaptable creature, Ziga finds almost any object to be a suitable food source. Despite its easygoing way of life, Ziga clean themselves upwards of six times a day. Though surprisingly docile, it is best not disturb them during their grooming ritual.

Capture Creatures by Becky Dreistadt

"The rise of the privileged poor isn’t just a function of greed and misplaced self-pity. It is also a..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:22 -0700

“The rise of the privileged poor isn’t just a function of greed and misplaced self-pity. It is also a product of social expectation. Dishing out $60 for a dinner with friends, $200 for a buck’s weekend away, $50 for a baby shower, and $25 for a Kickstarter campaign isn’t just a matter of keeping up with the Joneses – it’s a matter of not offending them.”

- Growing Number of Relatively Well-Off Australians Crying Poor

Rich in Color New YA blog focusing on diverse books and authors

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:07 -0700

Rich in Color

New YA blog focusing on diverse books and authors

"We talk about our friends behind their backs. We do. Ask any social scientist who has studied human..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:25 -0700

“We talk about our friends behind their backs. We do. Ask any social scientist who has studied human communication behaviors. Even you admitted to doing this. Our friends are witness to our attributes and flaws, our bad habits and good qualities, our contradictions and our contrivances. That they need to occasionally discuss the negative aspects of our lives and personalities in terms less than admiring is to be expected. Like anything, there are healthy and constructive ways to do this and unhealthy and destructive ways.”

- Dear Sugar #95: The Dudes in the Woods Debacle

Tony and friend

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:00:29 -0700

Tony and friend

"That’s the entirety of what spoiler culture is about; perhaps if we read enough blogs and follow the..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:00:18 -0700

“That’s the entirety of what spoiler culture is about; perhaps if we read enough blogs and follow the right people on Twitter, we can know what’s coming on our favorite show before it happens, and therefore be the best at liking it. One would think this would be the kind of thing networks would try to stifle, but they’re smart enough to know that if they leave a few crumbs out, the ants will keep coming back. Maybe they’ll even line up.”

- Building a Mystery: Boards of Canada’s Promotional Mindfuck and How to Like Things Now

Moemon is a pokemon hack where the pokemon sprites are replaced...

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:00:02 -0700

Moemon is a pokemon hack where the pokemon sprites are replaced with Lolis, aka cutesy little anime girls.

Wow, who has time to make these? I mean, they are my hero.

"But isn’t forgery like plagiarism? Technically speaking, it’s the opposite. (Plagiarists take..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:00:20 -0700

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But isn’t forgery like plagiarism?

Technically speaking, it’s the opposite. (Plagiarists take credit for other people’s work, whereas forgers attribute their own work to others.) But either way, there’s duplicity involved, and so I’d say that a plagiarist can be a great author in the sense that a forger can be a great artist.

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- The Big Idea: Why Forgeries Are Great Art

It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday…

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:00:14 -0700

It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday…

"This is where I mention Garden State’s soundtrack, which was as taste-defining as any soundtrack..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:00:12 -0700

“This is where I mention Garden State’s soundtrack, which was as taste-defining as any soundtrack since Romeo + Juliet. Garden State, along with The O.C., paved the way for the Grey’s Anatomying of indie music and helped develop the hipster middlebrow that is simultaneously too hip for the unhip and too unhip for the hip.”

- In Defense of Garden State

Late afternoon on summer Sundays last year, a crowd packed in to...

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:00:07 -0700

Late afternoon on summer Sundays last year, a crowd packed in to the Crown Victoria’s expansive, sun-drenched Williamsburg backyard. Friends nursed beers at picnic tables and, perhaps, partook in a game of bocce ball. But first they grabbed something to eat, forming a long line in front of a table where pork-scented smoke rose and hung invitingly in the air. There, two guys and a gal carved up a whole pig into succulent, tender cuts, sliding them onto paper plates with sautéed greens and banana cream pudding one week, Vietnamese noodles and ice cream another.

Pig Roast Sundays Return to the Crown Victoria in Williamsburg for Second Season