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Time’s James Poniewozik has this thing about bringing out Robo-James while he’s on his vacations (Robo-James being just a bunch of automated postings to his blog, pre-fabricated before Poniewozik would leave his desk at Time). So, in honor of Robo-James, this post was done before I got out of town, and if this works, will [...]

I wish I had a “staycation”; instead, I’m going to have what will pass for a vacation – a whirlwind of what and a family wedding up in Boston. But, really, I need more sleep. And to cut clutter. The war against clutter has me all but crying “uncle.” The Self-Proclaimed Duchess of Procrastination reigns. [...]

On a rainy Wednesday night – some stuff… Say it ain’t so: Ebert and Roeper are moving on; the new hosts for “At the Movies” will be two guys named Lyons and Mankiewicz. I saw Lyons and thought: Jeffrey Lyons? But, no, it’s his son, Ben, being paired up with Ben Mankiewicz. Wait a second: [...]

I’m so not a summer person. I don’t like heat! Friday, July 18, 2008: “Pretty to Think So” at the Asian American Int’l Film Festival. A law school classmate of mine was a co-director/co-writer of the film – how cool is it that two fellow APA attorneys made a movie? At any rate, I thought [...]

Cool idea: urban “vertical farms,” by Dr. Dickson Despommier of Columbia University. I loved the following paragraph from the NY Times article by Bina Venkataraman: Architects’ renderings of vertical farms — hybrids of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and Biosphere 2 with SimCity appeal — seem to be stirring interest. “It also has to be [...]

How could I resist?  Well, combination of (l)user error and less than optimal tools, I didn’t have my own blog.  Now, thanks to F C and a HK blogger/consultant named Dan, I got off my fat butt and got one going. The credit of my blog’s name completely goes to F C.  His genius came [...]

SSW mentioned the ongoing Asian American International Film Festival that we both attended, and so far has been summarized by the panel that we attended on Saturday about Asian American Aesthetics. My witty quip summarizing the panelists, which included thespian David Henry Hwang and director Wayne Wang, was “cultural tofu” – kind of amorphous, absorbs [...]

So… I forgot to mention a couple of things — let’s see, on July 4, besides seeing Wall-E, the siblings and I did get to check out the new Ikea in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It’s Ikea with a view of the New York Harbor. Nothing too spectacular, but fascinating in a Swedish-Brooklyn kind of way. [...]

July 4th – watched “Wall-E” – great movie! Highly recommended. Leaves a lump in the throat about the fate of humanity – and the life of one little robot. It also strongly reminded me about Asimov’s rules for/about robots. Ah, that Asimov. TV on the 4th of July consisted of watching the fireworks and enjoying [...]

Recent reads; generally all good subway reads: Following up on a previous post that previewed this, I finally got to read the book (and FC already read it): “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles” by Jennifer 8. Lee – what a great read! Not just a look at Chinese American cuisine, but also about what it means [...]