1) The Kung Pao.
...Fuck Kung Pao chicken. It has peanuts and I can't eat peanuts. Fuck Kung Pao.
2) General Tso's.
...This makes up for my inability to eat Kung Pao. If General Tso met Kung Pao (445-398 B.C.E.), General Tso would whip his ass.
3) I read another great article on the financial crisis today, this time from the perspective of Chairman Bernanke. If you're unfamiliar with the players, Ben Bernanke is a smallish little jewish professor who was a lauded academic and economist who became the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. He was installed during one of the most exuberant economic times in history with the irrelevant background in studying the Great Depression, and is now at the helm of potentially one of the most destructive financial crises in the history of mankind. This one is in the recent issue of the New Yorker if you, for some reason, need credentials on whether it's good.
4) Buddha's Delight.
...who the fuck are you kidding? Vegetarian chinese food? Leave. And eat some leaves. (Maybe thick succulent ones if you're lucky."
5) Securitization.
I watched this little video during work today because I had nothing to do. If you have a fairly good grasp over the process of securitization, you won't need to see it. If you 1) don't know what securitization is, 2) don't care what securitization is, and/or 3) don't immediately understand how our financial system managed to vaporize itself...I suggest you take the 7 minutes to watch. It's definitely not academic. It's entirely made for lay peeplez and is interesting.
How credit cards become asset-backed bonds from Marketplace on Vimeo.
6) Bon Iver.
I went to the Bon Iver show tonight at Town Hall. Fantastic. Chills and warmth. 'Twas good. Likey.
7) Fascinating Fascinating: The story of Clive Wearing.
Sarah sent along this wonderful wonderful article about this dude named Clive Wearing. He contracted this cold sore virus that somehow decimated the part of his brain that allows people to remember, and thus has spent the last like...30 years without being able to remember anything for more than 18 seconds. When he wrote in a journal, his entry looked like this:
9:34 AM: Now I am superlatively, actually awake.
As existential and chilling a piece as you will read. But then again, it's just very interesting because it's just so...inconceivable. (Incidentally, he still plays music beautifully.)
...yeah yeah...it's the New Yorker.
8) [Shakes head]...Chinese People and their products.
IVIKE HAHAHA
Harry Potter and the GIANT FUNNEL. No shit.
7 comments:
Have you read any of Oliver Sacks' books? My favorite is Uncle Tungsten, b/c it's all about the chemistry he did as a child, but his neuroscience books are wonderful as well.
Hey, IVIKE is actually pretty creative. Better than MIKE, which I've also seen. It actually kind of reminds me of the Japanese word for "whiskey", which is also clever yet amusing. They have no "w" sound in their alphabet, but they do have "oo" and "ee". Put those together, and you can make the word oo-ee-ski. Say it fast. Awesome.
Given your recent revelations about your music interests, I thought you might like this: Get Down.
Are they seducing the little boy?
M: No...you've read multiple books by him?
Hsien: You're Asian. At the very least it could have been oo-ih-ski.
H: This is a heavy-handed satire right?
Oh my god, I just went to Wikipedia and it's not. IT's NOT. BUT THEY'RE SO ORANGE. Although, having read the Wikipedia entry, I'm comforted and hilarified by the fact that one of their albums was released...that's right, in (Germany Only.) HAHAHAHA
...oh, and if that was commentary on my music, fuck you.
Yay, I have been out of the loop for a while, primarily:
1) Economic Downturn
2) Working my ass off
3) 1 + 2 = Hopefully not getting laid off
but with the holdayz upon = lazy = fuckin off = back in the loop!
asset back securitays FTW! also don't blame me if pressure sucks, lates...
btw RT wants to read HP and the the Giant Funnel, also TV on the Radio, best album of the year? NYC hipsters are officially mainstream.
So M. has begun to use her real name, Emily. Haubenreich stopped using his real name and now signs H. Hsien is a dead giveaway for who writes the blog, so the only name that really matters is printed openly. And now it appears Nik has become N.
Dude, wtf is FTW?
They don't have an "ih" sound either.
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