BWAAHHHAHAHAHAH!

Classic yo. Classic. Me like. The Veronica Lake hair is also distubingly evocative of 'the Grudge'.

Calling the corners...twice.

OH OH OH! I'm such a spaz!!

Rich from Pot Psychology is the blogger of FourFour!! Why did I not understand this?
and THENNN..he goes and interviews my HERO?! Interview with Margaret Cho on the Asian American community, her new show and Sharon Stone.

"I try to be a nice person when I meet people. Because I'm a nice person!" - Margaret Cho
via Jezebel

Rich I love you!
Understand how hilarious Pot Psychology is...okay?


"Is Believing In Creationism Grounds For A Breakup?" from Pot Psychology on Vimeo.

Double Oh....Seven.

Sometimes I wonder if I am really a bachelor stuck inside a woman's body. Why?


Because nothing is turning more on more right now, than the idea of a dark wood apartment with stark white carpets and these illustrations on the walls. Walking around, wearing a silk charmeuse dress or leather catsuit and 60s sunglasses. Sipping my gin and tonic with a lime twist. And lounging in a leather settee.


I mean, aren't they beautiful? There's a reason why women's bodies have been the quintessential model for artists-the curves are softer, the expression more enigmatic. They're actually book covers by UK Artist Michael Gillette for the Penguin Anniversary Reprint of Ian Fleming's classics. But they're also totally retro art and awesome at that.
My favorites are the 'Casino Royale' one and the 'Spy Who Loved Me'. The first for it's gorgeous rich color and the second for the subtly evocative valentine curves. Eye candy!

oh and by the way, my Bond Girl name is: Sela Moonshine
via the Bond Girl Name Generator

Advice to give yourself.

New favorite blog. Period.

I WROTE THIS FOR YOU

The lovely thing about it is how clear but absolutely personal I perceive it to be. Relative to my own experience. The power and grace of words.

Have you ever been somewhere, crowded especially, and really looked at people? Like at the mall? Or on the bus? And been shocked and delighted to realize how beautiful they are? I mean, really really beautiful. Fuzzy and dewy, bright, interesting, aged or young, they're beautiful. Or have you ever reviewed someone you love and realize how other people see them? Maybe as old or Black or White or funny looking or ugly; but because you love them and know them - you think they're NORMAL? Or even, interesting?

I'm always happy to find that my friendships with people make them beautiful. But totally surprised to know that I can see that in strangers.

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From BIGTHINK.COM
Question: Can people be happy in the present?

"Well I think forecasting for the future is the way we live happy lives now. You know, people ask me, “Don’t you think that we’d just all be a lot happier if we would just live in the moment and be here and now?” And the answer is, “Well yeah, for a second.” But if you don’t want to look forward in time . . . you don’t want to make plans, you don’t want to arrange a life so that it’s optimal rather than suboptimal, then you should be a mosquito or a toaster or something that doesn’t look into the future. Our ability to look into the future and think about what would make us most happy is the way that we get to a present that pleases us. And I don’t see these things as being at odds. I see them as going hand-in-hand."
-Dan Gilbert, Psychologist/Prof. of Psychology @ Harvard Univ.

Ooh and the Definition of Self-Righteousness - awesome, non-partisan look at what liberals and conservatives can learn from each other.

Illustration 'Monopali', By Archan Nair @ Red Bubble

Clients for Dummies

HEART! This Design Client Guidelines Checklist. I wish everyone who ever worked with or met a designer would understand and follow these rules. I mean, I KNOW that some designers ARE arrogant toerags - sometimes for no reason at all, but a lot of us are just sensitive artists who are really into creation. It can sometimes feel yucchy to put a price on our creativity, just like selling your child or something, so please please understand that. (via a lot of people...I think unicornology)

CLIP and SEND to anyone who might be able to use it. Laminate it. Post it all over your office. Post to your blog. Make it your calling card.

Feel free to visit Room 17, the design hub of Bonnie Siegler and Emily Oberman who created this list and several others.

And so it is.

MOHM & BEAN - 8/31/08

Congratulations to Mohm and the Bean!

Sneaky success! I used the USB cord at the office to upload my photos! Yay for not having to trek to Longs.

Highlights include:

-Gorgeous wedding site in Sausalito, high on the hill (sat a lonely goatherd)

-Mohm's mariachi band making an astounding addition to the ceremony
-Momh's brother making a wedding speech referencing PASSING GAS.

-Delicious dinner at South Sea Village; J. is still a little overwhelmed I think at eating actual banquet food.

-The photographer literally humping the windshield of the wedding car to get a shot of Bean and Mohm through the sunroof

-Old friends interacting well with new. Or at least trading the racial jokes on an equal basis.

AN.TI.CI.....

PATION.

Note: I sort of feel like an asshole for not having any pictures of the Bean, but my camera ran out of space right before the ceremony. So just look at Mohm looking slightly uncomfortable. He rocked the ceremony though.

Snap snappity

I bought a new camera today. The one on the left, yes, that color too. I think my friends have more sophisticated ones, but I think this one will be fine. (Feel free to weigh in on this decision Friends) The original purchase was going to be a Kodak M683, but then I read some newer reviews that said there was a shutter delay problem. So I went with the tried and true Canon.

J-Dawg also let me know about the Costco return policy, where they will pretty much take anything back because they have a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee. So she said it's actually a good way to try out a camera and then return it if you find it somewhere else cheaper, but...I guess, I'm just not that Asian.

Wow, this is slowly turning into those - blogging about your life that no one cares about posts - but the main impetus to this purchase which does seem to be coming out of left field is that the camera I borrowed from my parents yesterday to take pictures of the wedding is now missing the USB cord - so all my photos are stuck on it (we don't have a card reader). See, I think somewhere inbetween here and the cruise ship, my parents lost the cord which I thoughtfully bundled for them in their camera bag before they left. I guess the point being is that it's time to start being responsible for my own items, because damn if I don't really want to upload all those photos right now.

Hope everyone is having an AWESOME LABOR DAY!