A MESSAGE VIA Google Talk (condensed)
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
1-side of a very funny Google Talk chat. Here's what my friend had to say about their day...
"I had diversity training today...
it's like how not to be racist at work
you're supposed to stop other people
if they start to say something racist you go
"Ouch!"
literally
that's what they taught us
we reviewed some Maya Angelou quotes
and then they said the names of different groups
like "Muslim" "gay white man" "senior citizen"
and we had to write down whatever words popped into our heads
so my paper was like "terrorist" "San Francisco" "slow"
and then that was the end of the training"
GRAPPLE! Looks like an apple. Tastes like a grape.
Friday, February 15, 2008
This is a grapple, actually it's four of them. They are the offspring of an apple mated with a grape. Isn't it amazingly horrific? They smell SO GOOD. Sweet grapes, nature's bounty.
But no, they have the crunch of an apple, and I just don't like apples!
- POP by Appas, Guest Blogger
Mistakes Happen
Friday, November 16, 2007
CORRECTION: "A headline in Monday's Daily News, 'He regrets his role in postal vid,' implied that Richard Marino, the subject of a YouTube video, was sorry for an incident in December at a Brooklyn post office. Marino, in fact, is not sorry. The News regrets the error." -- Daily News, New York.
So you know how pretty much every day, there is a list of corrections printed in the newspaper? Sometimes they are rather amusing. Liz forwarded me this article about a guy who keeps a website called Regrettheerror.com which lists corrections from all over. The above is one of his favorites, as is this one, which I love. - POP by E by way of Liz
CORRECTION: "It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement. We regret the omission." - The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, apparently trying to make up for decades of forgotten coverage, printed this two-sentence note.
FROM THE COLLECTION
Friday, September 14, 2007
The piece was important to the movement; we could never return the skewer to the set. It is now permanently housed in box in my apartment.
Artist: Loryn
THE DRAGON BUS SERIES: An Interview with Pibian and Wamie
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Pibian: Ok, so we were down in Maryland last year for Preakness. Before leaving for New York, we decide to get really high, and then Balls (that’s the name of their friend) drops us off in the outskirts of Baltimore Chinatown.
(editor’s note – ew)
Anyway, we get out of the car all dazed and we see this fried chicken place. I'd eyed it before when we arrived but didn't go in.
Wamie: Chester Fried Chicken.
Pibian: So we go in there and there's a big woman and this little man behind the counter.
Wamie: You know she gives it to him back there.
Pibian: So Wamie and I decide pick out two big drumsticks and potato wedges and wait outside for the Chinatown bus.
But instead a dirty little minivan pulls up to the curb and the driver starts waving and honking. We get in and nobody says anything.
So it’s just me and Wamie and the driver in the van. We’re eating the chicken and stinking up the car and driving along on the highway and don’t really know what’s going on.
All of the sudden, he pulls off the highway, opens up the door and tells us to get out.
Wamie: In a Bob Evan’s parking lot.
Pibian: But then the big Chinatown Bus pulls up.
Wamie: We were really stoned.
Pibian: And dirty.
- POP by J
UPDATE: From New York Magazine,
Penny-Pinching Peril - Chinatown's Cheap Bus Travel: A Troubled History
THE DRAGON BUS SERIES: Loryn Speaks
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
GUEST POP by Loryn: My favorite memory of the Chinatown bus occurred a few years ago when BLANK and I were taking the bus up together to visit John in New York for New Year's. We were seated on the bus, adjusted our belongings and sat back for the trip. BLANK then said to me, "I'm scared, I've never taken the Chinatown bus before. I heard they get into lots of accidents because Asians got bad peripheal vision!" [said: LOUDLY]. I look up to see all of the Asians with their bad "peripheal" vision looking back at us and had to chuckle.
Another great story from that weekend was that BLANK saved me from getting a load blown on my face while I was passed out on OTHER BLANK's bed. Some fat girl was giving head to some random guy in the room I had passed out in about a foot from my face. Luckily, BLANK saw the outlines of this movement through the curtains on the door's window and ran in there, forcing them up and out! Thank you BLANK!
