Things that are in my living room that weren’t before: Chinese newspapers. Money magazine. Golf magazine. Chinese money golf magazine. A stack of tissues and paper towels and napkins, because my dad has allergies. A LOT of yogurt.
When I turned on my flat-screen television it wasn’t Conan O’Brien or [...]
(The scene: A gay Halloween party. Richard is dressed as a zombie in a night robe holding a Cabbage Patch doll.)
Adam: What? No teddy bear?
Richard: This is Joey. Joey’s my childhood buddy - he’s my bestest friend in the whole wide world! (Hands Joey to Adam)
Adam: Hmmm… [...]
Even though I turn 30 next month, my sister turned 40 years old a month ago. My mother bought a Chinese cake at Ranch 99, you know, those Chinese cakes that aren’t as sweet as American cakes, with the canned peaches and grapes and mandarin orange slices layered in a totally unsweetened yellow cake [...]
Remember when blogging was going to change the world? The internet was going to magically transform a series of websites selling crap you don’t need into the collective thoughts and voices of millions of people.
Then YouTube became big, and we all got sidetracked watching girl fights. (By the way, I don’t recommend you [...]
At the beginning of this summer, to get out of the mental and emotional rut I was in, I sold what little Yahoo! stock I had, had my father move into my condo and took over a friends lease in San Francisco.
But all things come to an end, and I have to move back [...]
So, on a mailing list at work, there is this:
From: A Yahoo! employee
To: internal-food-mailing-list@yahoo-inc.com
Subject: Does anyone have any recipes for Chinese soup? [eom]
To which, Eric sends a couple of us his reply:
From: Eric
To: (A bunch of us)
Subject: Re: Does anyone have any recipes for Chinese soup? [...]
I took this photo at the Molly Stones across the street. If you look carefully, the box says chow mein, but it contains rice. Mein, as you may or may not know, means “noodles.”
Some marketter for Stouffers was probably all, “CHICKEN STIR-FRY is such a tame name for our Lean Cuisine brand. [...]
For the past three or four months, I kinda walked away from this blog. There was a lot of pressure - mostly on my own accord - to try to be a comedian on this website, and a ton of valid reasons why I shouldn’t post here at all: family, my job working [...]
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