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Apr. 2nd, 2008 05:29 pm
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I was talking to a friend who had recently returned from China. He and his girlfriend were of Chinese descent but had never actually been there—they'd gone there for work and didn't speak Mandarin, and they'd felt very odd and isolated. He was both grateful for the experience and saddened by how much an outsider he'd been.

He told me about the place that they were living, and suddenly I was whisked away in a flashback scene. I was having dinner with the couple on their backyard patio. It was a beautiful summer evening. We were drinking wine. I wanted to be there for real.

I noticed that they had beer bottles with bamboo shoots in them. "That's pretty," I remarked.

"Oh, they're for the pandas."

As if on cue, a huge, dirty panda came snuffling out of the bushes. It shambled over to where we were sitting and plucked the bamboo out of the beer bottle. Then it roared and I woke up.


I was not happy to be awakened from this dream. I mean, PANDA!


EDIT: Hey Toronto people, does anyone want to go to the opera with me? $20 rush seats for Eugene Onegin. I've seen it before (in Moscow—I'm a bougie fuck) but it'd be cool to see the CoC do it too.


EDIT II: Via Feministe, Postcards From Yo Momma is about the cutest thing ever. I just spent the last ten minutes or so laughing my ass off. (And now I can't send anything to it because my mom reads my blog.)

This is my favourite so far:
Look who finally learned the computer.
Look who finally learned the computer. Dad set me up email ACCOUNT AND ALSO SHOWED ME HOW TO GO ONLINE.I DON’T KNOW WHY EVERYTHING IS SUDDENLY WRITING BIG LIKE THIS, SO JUST IGNORE IT. SO HOW WAS THE CONCERT YOU WENT TO WITH FRIENDS/ CALL ME SOON. THIS WRITING IS WEIRD SORRY, LOVE MOM.

Date: 2008-04-02 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lzz.livejournal.com
Talking of pandas, I've been meaning to ask for ages where that icon came from!

Date: 2008-04-02 10:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
What sort of seats come up in the rush seats? Not a big fan of needing a radio telescope to detect the stage.

Date: 2008-04-02 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
I don't think I qualify for the U29 seats...

psst

Date: 2008-04-02 11:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seaya.livejournal.com
You are very lucky to be able to see this if you can swing it:

http://www.artbeatgroup.com/event.html

They rock.

Re: psst

Date: 2008-04-03 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shelestel.livejournal.com
The "19+" restriction is funny. Know why?

Re: psst

Date: 2008-04-03 12:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seaya.livejournal.com
Alcohol I guess? Dunno, I'm not in TO.

Date: 2008-04-03 12:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shelestel.livejournal.com
My grandmothers would love to go (and you could have interesting discussions about communism; except that they don't really speak English), but me, I'm more excited about the TSO playing Messiaen.

Date: 2008-04-03 12:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captainmushroom.livejournal.com
When is the opera? I'm long overdue for checking out the new venue.

Date: 2008-04-03 03:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secretsoflife.livejournal.com
i'm pretty free as i remain unemployed :)

Date: 2008-04-03 01:24 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
isnt it funny how we think in internet speak-- i was literally thinking, like our fellow above, "PANDAA!!". maybe with a yay added in.
also- moms, yay! so cute! the "i dont know why its big like that sorry love you mom" is so my mom as well.
-lisa (melimeli.. howdy! :) :) )

Date: 2008-04-09 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
i did.. i have internet immoderation problems and really massive amounts of work to do. i'm actually much happier this way. but, hi! i still read your journal. transmetropolitan! i used to be crazy about that stuff. have you ever read kabuki? not political, but very beautiful and weird. and the original shade the changing man, also not political, but clever and reminds me of buffy.
here is something i'm reading for a workshop next week, it actually reminded me of you- if you need procrastination material, voila: http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/workshops/downloads/hanagan.pdf

happy soon to be pesach!

-l

ps i have a melimeli.blogspot that i wish to eventually be JUST for poetry translation, but i haven't actually put anything there yet. i also deleted the livejournal because i think i have an arguing problem. i'm smiling but it's true. now i just argue within the confines of microsoft word. :P

Date: 2008-04-12 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
i don't think so.. though i dont know. i got out of touch with comics, and never started to re-check out stuff. kabuki was so cool, no?

its good to have a release, for sure. i think my release is languages. i dont actually have time to sit and watch soap operas in other languages, but i do and i love it.

now that i think about it, i think i am going to make a trip to canada in the summer just to go to a good arabic bookstore. can you believe there is none in ny? but apparently toronto and montreal both have. im so pissed.

Date: 2008-04-03 02:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com
I'm going on Friday the 18th with my aunt - if you go that night, maybe I'll see you there!

Date: 2008-04-03 02:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com
Well, whoever goes first can tell the other all about it!

Date: 2008-04-03 02:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theoldanarchist.livejournal.com

What a wonderful dream!

Date: 2008-04-03 03:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theoldanarchist.livejournal.com

It is similar thoughts that led to the current situation in which my alarm clock sits, collecting dust, not having been turned on in more than a year.

Date: 2008-04-03 10:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misfratz.livejournal.com
I should really start blogging text messages from my mum (she has 'issues' with email, relating to being computer-illiterate and poor)- they are not quite as good as those, but the txt spk is hilarious. Also awwww at the 'are you lonely?' one. And the pandas.

Date: 2008-04-03 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sadie-sabot.livejournal.com
LOL at the all caps mama!

Date: 2008-04-09 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
ohmigod, also, "the invisibles". trippy and political and weird.

Date: 2008-04-09 08:03 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
that was me. hi again!
-lisa

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