July 2004 Archive

BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT!

Ok.

First I hear that Margaret Cho is dropped from performing at the Unity event at the DNC.

Doonsbury is getting dropped from 38 papers?

Meanwhile: Outfoxed is all over headlines via MoveOn.org and O’Reilly’s having a shit fit.

And Farenheight 9/11 is reaching more audiences.

And more folks are thinking seriously re: this presidential election. (Forgive me for citing USA Today. I like pretty colors.)

Can you hear the Conservatives pulling strings and sweating just a bit because they fear criticism, questions, alternate opinions, and uh… reality??

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Sure Thing.

Conversations with The Daddy (And yes, I wind up speaking pidgen Foblish to poppa)

Daddy:”Herro?”
Moi: “Herro! My Daddy!”
Daddy: “How are you!?”
Moi:”Oh daddy, you’d be amazed. I’m sitting here with some nice Korean American Girls”
Daddy: “Oh, how nice. Whatchoo doing so rate night?”
Moi: “We’re eating Pijjah!”
Daddy: “What kind of pijjah?!”
Moi: “Well, I’m having a salad, but they have a vegetarian and a … peperoni pijja”
Daddy: “Domino?”
Moi: “No daddy. Real restaurant pijja with white napkins …not paper…and everything!”
Daddy: “Wow. Must be nice.”
Moi: “Nice. Berry nice.”
Daddy: So they all have boyfriend, but not you, huh? I bet so.
Moi: “No daddy. They all have girlfriends.” (*cough*)
Daddy: “Like you?”
Moi: “Uh… not quite daddy.”
Daddy:” … oh…ok. ”
Moi: “So Daddy, I put your picture up at my oppice at work.”
Daddy: “Oh yeah? Real oppice?”
Moi: “Real oppice daddy. Got my own phone and desk and everything.”
Daddy: “Wow. So proud.”
Moi: ” Anyways, someone saw your picture and said you don’t look anything like me”
Daddy: “Really?”
Moi: “Yeah. I told them that Mom was pretty and makes up for the fact that you’re so funny looking.”
Daddy: “Oh my! Shame on you! Why you saying that?!”
Moi: “Come *on* Dad. You’re a short little man and I’m all tall and with good skin.”
Daddy: “…”
Moi: “…”
Daddy: “… but…”
Moi: “… but what?”
Daddy: “… Mommy was fat.”
Moi:”DAD!”
Daddy: “I walking 3 miles a day. You should be rucky you look good like me when you old.”
Moi: “Oh. My. Gawd.”

(Ok…just a *wee* bit of creative license taken.. but most of this was true. really.)

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Some meditations.

Is it wrong to desperately want to feel private?
…after living so much of my life online over the past several years, exposing truths and utter frailities, dorkitude, frustrating episodes, moments of whimsy, and disclosures and confessions?

I’ve been feeling vulnerable lately. Not from you, or you, or you lurker. Perhaps it’s you.

Yes. That’s it. That’s exactly it.

It’s you who are that one person that makes me feel beyond uncomfortable.
Both with myself and with the knowledge that you exist out there.
I want to disfigure myself so that I could walk past you without being recognized.

I tremble with the possibility that we might be more similar than different.

It’s you that I hate. And I hate to feel exposed to you.
I don’t want you to know anything about me. You haven’t earned that right.
And what I know of you, I’m horrified by. Completely.
Perhaps there’s more to you than what little I know.
I don’t care to know more.
Really.

But then again.
Do you really exist?
Or are you just a phantom. I still can’t be sure based on the talking shadows against the cave wall. Have I had this discussion for so long that I can no longer tell if I’m warm or cold?

Are you puzzled?

Good.

Perhaps then you’ll become bored and leave me be.
We, the other shadows and I, would much prefer it.

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Posted by Min Jung in Just Me, Today's Thunk

Randomalia continued

I have 3 new galleries up.
I tend to oversnap, and then prune from the gallery later. I’ll be doing that soon enough but here’s the raw laod of them currently.

* Derek & Heather Chawazek’s wedding
* Carwash Series (I think this is my 3rd carwash series)
* Blackout SF 2004

May I say how extraordinary it is to drink champaign by candlelight with good company while the city lays dark and still. Well, ok, not that still considering the dumbasses running through or around flares and stop signs at our intersection.

Still, I thought it was quite lovely.

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Enamored. Indeed.

Today is Derek & Heather’s wedding day.

Big ups.

Rehearsal pix here.

More coming soon.

And I’ll be using Flickr more soon as well.

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Truths

“Every person needs more love than he or she deserves”
-German Philosopher Jorge Splett

” I would like to do with you what spring does to a cherry tree”
-Pablo Neruda

” We have been made with love. Please treat us accordingly”
- Sign at a German grocery next to Checkout staff.

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Posted by Min Jung in Life Lessons

Logic Overload.

I’m silly, yes this is true.
But a logical person by nature.

And I recognize that these assertions are completely debateable.

Today has been…extraordinary.

#1. Work stuff actually feeling reasonably stress free and manageable
#2. Getting to leave work at a reasonable hour
#3. The most careful and loving note about faith I’ve received in a while. (LK, I’m vain. I know. But damn it, you still love me)
#4. Going to a shwank bar in perhaps the sketchiest part of SF ever.
#5. Being told about blonde hookers in the 80s by an internet luminarie.
#6. A phone call from someone whom I’d never expected to hear from again.
#7. Vietnamese food at Tu Lan where I realize that Julia Child has been drawn with man hands.
#8. Surviving a drive by.
(Well… some punk ass kids with eggs thrown out of their car while driving past me at …oh 45 mph…next time I keep a can of tuna in my car to chuck back. “Take that mutha fucka. What comes first? Egg? or Chicken of the sea?!”). I’m ok. Car is ok.
#9. A heart trembling apology that comes from years/miles past.
#10. Realizing that this has been a… very strange, wonderful, perplexing, exhausting, and overall confusing day. Possibly an indecipherable answer to some of my prayers of late.

Of course the logical person in me can anticipate only one conclusion from all these things coming back around again.

I must be dying.

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Posted by Min Jung in Just Me, Life Lessons, Snapshots of Life, Today's Thunk

Oh…and this is kinda important…

Something on my mind the last few months that may seem out of character for me based on most of my snarky,cussing,name-in-vain,lefty,shmacktalking bent is…

Well…

I’ve started praying again.

And it feels really really good.

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Posted by Min Jung in Just Me, Life Lessons, Today's Thunk

Randomalia

It’s friday, we all know what that means.
YES!
Red panties.

No, seriously.

What friday means are live phone calls to people you love.
I got my short list of long distance smiles to make today.

For me it’s a nice excuse to get off the keyboard and hear the laughter and smiles live vs emoticon.

On the home front, I’m mostly settled in. My room is, in fact, already a comfortable mess. Shoes & socks everywhere. I’m ready to throw myself into spinsterart crafts again. While watching…ya know…the big ass TV.

Also: With the bigass tv and nearly 270 viewing choices, I’m at the point of overwelmed-ment. I miss the Tivo. Those TIVO bastards are being dipshits and have not produced a platform agnostic HD-dvr yet. The only way you can get one is w/ DirectTV. (*Shakes fist furiously at the sky)

Question: What’s the lifespan of a mattress? My back’s been a little achey breaky of late and I’m wondering if I’m overdue to replace.

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Last Night’s Conversation

Just a recap of the subjects at hand.

Lesbian Vegetarianism vs Lesbian Beefjerkyism
“My brother is a cock tease”
Meat porn. No seriously. Meat porn.
*cluck cluck cluk kung* ism (it realy means bacon)
Food dehydrators

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Poetica Spontenaium 7/15/04

If I could
I would.

I would reach my hand out
Through the multiplexed jello of memory
tangled with thorns and lost love notes
To pull you through by the collar to my kiss.

I would pluck away the nightmares,
brush away the lost hours
Pick clean your unwilling heart
From all sense of shame.

Lay your head across my lap
And softly pour warm clouds and dreams into your ear.
No poison. No missing Act in this play.
Just dreams of futures past, and futures new.
A kinship rebuilt from scrapiron and duct tape.
With a clean firescape inside.

I would teach you to whistle
spells that tranformed blues into violets
Sweet bouquets would fall from your lips
And I would bury my nose in the kiss
Of lilacs and new bloomed posies.

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Mother Fucking Christ.

From BananaEggy
Like this is news.

Jayzus Motherfucking Christ.

To compare relationships like
Wesley Snipes & Nikki Park
Nick Cage and Alice Kim
Woody Allen and Soon Yi
Alex Payne and Sandra Oh

are somehow more ludicrous than the average hollywood hookup is like trying to say that a white on white marriage of beautiful people Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey is more genuine and valid. Or Britney and her boy toy. Whatever the fuck his name is.

Someone make a valid or approving statement, by comparison, on Jlo’s ass and everyone else in hollywood. I dare you.

Oh fuck it all.

Where’s my proposal from George Clooney?

Yeah.

Whatevers.
Fuck you very much.

Mysterious and submissive, my ass.

Actually, definitely not my ass.

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So San Francisco.

Of all things to do on a Monday evening, I didn’t really expect to be eating strawberries with Matt Gonzalez while going over fundraising activities, ideas, and plannings for a political campaign while in my livingroom.

Trully a San Francisco moment.

My roommate Jane is running for School Board:( Run Jane Run) and last night was one of the first biweekly planning sessions to be hosted at Casa Arguello for her campaign.

Now, I’m not a very political person by nature, however I adore the notion of supporting smart, compassionate, and innovative folks in their endevours to change their lives, the community, and the future. And Jane’s definitley one of those people.

Now I’m excited as all pirate boots to be involved with her campaign which may mean things like signature drives, fundraising parties, networking events, and etc. I need some help. Care to lendahand?

Her campaign kickoff is coming up: 7/24

Jane Kim for School Board
Location: Punch Gallery
155 10th St., San Francisco, CA View Map
When: Saturday, July 24, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Phone: 415.806.3069

SAVE THE DATE for Jane Kim’s School Board Campaign Kick-Off Party – SATURDAY JULY 24, 7-9p.

As many of you know, Jane Kim is running for School Board in San Francisco. Folks are really excited for a young, progressive, incredibly talented individual like Jane to step up…People are already buzzing, and now it’s time to come together and party to kick off the campaign.

More details are on the way, but it will be on Saturday, July 24, 7-9pm at the Punch Gallery in the SOMA district in San Francisco. There will be food & drink, music, performers, her friends and supporters. It’s free, so please invite as many of your friends as you like, we want to get the word out.

About Jane:
Jane Kim is the youth program director at the Chinatown Community Development Center. For the past four years, she has worked with over 200 San Francisco high school students in creating youth-initiated leadership training and community service projects. Jane also co-founded and currently co-directs Locus Arts, a community arts performance space in SF and is active in the arts/music community. Prior to CCDC, Jane advocated for economic development issues, including consumer protection, higher education and universal life line issues, for low-income communities of color and immigrant communities.

More info about the campaign, including some really exciting endorsements at www.janekim.org

Won’t you come?

Pssst…
As if it weren’t obvious, I’ll be assisting with online/grassroots/viral awareness for Ms. Jane.

Booyah.

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Posted by Min Jung in General