Comment on Important viewing announcement by Hannah Miet I rented this during an awesomely terrible movie marathon that also included Paul Blart Mall Cop. Shark attacks plane. That’s all I’m gonna say, SEE IT! Comment on The Great Trendy Treat Trucks Challenge, Day 2: Nom Nom Truck by Hannah Miet There is actually a truck called nom nom> As in the phrase I utter subconsciously, causing strangers on the street to stare at me, whenever I’m hungry, or smell cookies, or hear the ice cream truck? Brilliant. Comment on The Great Trendy Treat Trucks Challenge, Day 2: Nom Nom Truck by Serena Wu enough reason for me to pay LA a visit sometime before I start working a 9-to-5 (or freelance my life away) Comment on Jay Chou as Kato in ‘The Green Hornet’ (What? No Asian American Actors Left?) by Asian Fan yay, happy for Jay Chou!! Comment on Homes, sweet homes by Teresa Look at you, you California girl you! Can’t wait until fall when I finally drive up to your MIA ass. Comment on When life gives you lemons, make lemon cupcakes by wong these look like ketchup and mustard!! Comment on I believe I can fly by Noel Ahhh I really hope I make the college cheer team…I miss stunting. Nice job! Comment on Low Class Ink’s Daily Dose of Douchery: Sneaky rival tutors who try to undercut my rates by Noel I love douchebag stories! Comment on Why don’t you take this pepper and stuff it by michelle woo Props on the post title. I love spicy sausage very much. I am bookmarking this post. Why don’t you take this pepper and stuff it Watching “Top Chef: Masters” has made me a bit silly with food lately, and not necessarily in a bad way. I’ve been cooking up fresh flavors, trying new foods, and taking risks (read: burning things). I’ve even been trying to cook without recipes! Below is my own formula for roasted stuffed peppers. Orange and yellow [...] Pretty/Sexy – Pottermania edition Welcome to the first installment of Pretty/Sexy, where I bring you one thing that’s pretty and one thing that’s sexy. I promise the writing will be terrible and full of grammatical lolz, but the pictures will be adequately ooh-ed and ahh-ed. In today’s Pretty: Emma Watson. Uber polished as the face of Burberry’s fall campaign, and [...] Prawns, polo and poodles: A day trip to Santa Barbara Yesterday Mr. Ink and I took a day trip up to Santa Barbara, a beautiful seaside city whose beaches seem so much more serene and tranquil than the busy beaches in L.A. It was a perfect one-day holiday, complete with seafood lunch, art fair, polo match, and Bastille Day Festival (plus poodle parade). Pictures below: [...] Book learnin’ and bagel burnin’ Mr. Ink and I spend every second Saturday of the month Reading to Kids (that is, every second Saturday of the month that we actually manage to wrench ourselves out of bed at 7:30 a.m. and drive downtown to one of the schools). The kids are a riot, the books are a load of fun, [...] When life gives you lemons, make lemon cupcakes Once upon a time, I used to buy books. Then I became a starving writer. Now, my literary diet rests on what I like to call the “Borrowing From Borders” plan, which more or less involves me buying a book, reading it for no more than two weeks (very, very carefully at a 30-degree angle [...] Comment on Writing honestly, writing well by michelle woo Word. I’m realizing that rules are so gray these days in media. This occurred to me when a big-name news organization contacted me because they saw my random post on spicy ramen. (I think I wrote about nose drippage and curling in fetal position on the bathroom floor.) They thought it was cool and — fingers crossed — I might get to do some writing for them. So I was like, wow, maybe I CAN be myself and be a legit writer, too. So I’d say go with what makes you feel on fire and people will come and laugh and follow. I, personally, would LOVE to read about eating nose hairs! Writing honestly, writing well OK, if I can come to terms with the fact that I am not one of this generation’s Sad Young Literary Men or a self-branding fameball – and therefore not subject to frequent hipster-lashings on Gawker – I can start writing honestly again. On occasion, I get an email from a reader of my old blog, [...] Marketing teams: you can haz my money How much of a sucker am I for a celeb-endorsed product? Answer: much more than I thought. I see one amazing match – S. Williams d. Azarenka – and suddenly I want to buy lip balm that has her face on it. /headdesk I DO like pomegranate flavored things though. In other news, my cheer shoes [...] Low Class Ink’s Daily Dose of Douchery: Sneaky rival tutors who try to undercut my rates As I’ve probably mentioned by now, writing doesn’t pay the bills. Thankfully, I still manage to find work here and there, mostly teaching English and tutoring college students during the week. It doesn’t pay very much, primarily because I feel bad for them and wind up charging way less per hour than most professional SAT [...] R.I.P. Michael Jackson I always think it’s strange when celebrity deaths affect people so profoundly to the point of tears; why mourn someone you didn’t know personally? But hearing that Michael Jackson passed away this past hour — I’d post a link to the LA Times news alert but the site won’t even load right now — is [...] Slackin’ in SoCal “I’m going to work out all the time,” I said. “I’ll do nothing but write,” I said. “Once I get to L.A. I’m going to be a changed woman,” I said. Let us review. On any given weekday afternoon, much like today, I’m sprawled out on the sofa watching a rerun of Law & Order, eating [...] I believe I can fly Here’s to doing stuff you thought you weren’t capable of doing anymore: this is a picture of me and the boy, both former cheerleaders, hitting a lib at the gym the other night. After three years of not stunting, I was hoping to do a chair, maaaybe a toss to hands. I surprised myself with [...] Via Jezebel: “In Iran, ‘pretty’ IS sometimes the protest” A great article from Jezebel on why attractive media coverage of the Iranian election isn’t just a hook (click through to read the full article by Megan Carpentier): Women — especially young women — are participating in large numbers because the Ahmadenijad regime has been particularly hard on them. Since he took office, the Iranian government [...] Comment on Low Class Ink’s Daily Dose of Douchery: Imitation isn’t the sincerest form of flattery if it means plagiarizing my blog by Elaine @Teresa Yeah, people are pathetic to unbelievable degrees. And ew, Patrick. Things I did not need to know. Rocking out in Vegas… with six septuagenarians An old post I wrote in February that’s finally seeing the light of day – With her lemon yellow shirt tucked into waist-high red stretchy pants and a giant blue tote slung over one shoulder, she pops in her top row of dentures and comes over to shake my hand, all in one unabashed gesture. “Margaret,” [...] Comment on Low Class Ink’s Daily Dose of Douchery: Imitation isn’t the sincerest form of flattery if it means plagiarizing my blog by patrick Echidnas also have startling multi-headed penises: http://www.google.com/search?client=ms-rim&hl=en&q=wiki%20echidna%20penis&ie=UTF-8&channel=browser I’m a Sucker for Anything Miniature Follow the adorable adventures of Ickle and Lardee at My Milk Toof by artist and animator Inhae Renee Lee. Cuteness. Comment on Low Class Ink’s Daily Dose of Douchery: Imitation isn’t the sincerest form of flattery if it means plagiarizing my blog by Teresa Wu It’s just sad that people plagiarize our PERSONAL BLOGS. Even sadder that the girl who did it to me wrote for a living yet felt the need to steal from a then-19-year-old. Low Class Ink’s Daily Dose Of Douchery: Imitation Isn’t The Sincerest Form Of Flattery If It Means Plagiarizing My Blog Introducing a new feature! Low Class Ink’s Daily Dose of Douchery, in which I point out just that. Today’s amazing douche, detailed below: A few months ago I was informed by a fellow blogger that some douchebag on the web was taking my writing – a few vulnerable, exhibitionistic entries from an old blog – and [...] Comment on Wonder Woman, underappreciated superhero by Derek L I see Wonder Woman is a celebration of female sexuality, empowered beyond belief, with a tinge of in-your-face attitude. I liked the cartoon they did http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186373/ Comment on Bet your bottom dollar on it by Maria Every day we’re hustling! But seriously. I hear ya. It’s rough. Sounds like you are keeping yourself busy and focused on your goal though! I will be looking for some donation-based yoga to help maintain my sanity.