Friday, June 7, 2013

What good does it do to be smart? Two funded advanced degrees but...


I lost my child over a month ago, but I did not have time to react to it until now, because I had to do my stupid exam and whatever. I would have dropped everything if it wasn’t for my advisor: I had already done it once to him before; I can’t do it again. There’s some shit you can’t do twice to the same person, or you’ll be a complete jerk. This is how it is in the ivory tower: food stamp level poverty, no grievance upon your own child's death, complete insult by your superior for your ignorance about something you consider yourself an expert in..., I can go on.

I'm really wondering this is for real. It can't be this bad just to be a traditional intellectual, can it? Is it just a nightmare? Somebody please wake me!

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Lil biatch finally left me on Apr 30

Still cannot quite accept it. My child died.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Hebephilia in Asian patriarchs

Chicken first, or egg first? Stupid Asian girls first, or hebephilic Asian patriarchs first?

God, I fucking hate Asia.
 

Monday, February 25, 2013

Man, life is hard

Baby, I love you, so much...
Hello the world,

Are you trying to kill me by killing her? Lil Biatch has just weighed 6 pounds, had a stroke and caught a pneumonia. A stroke? Are you serious?!  She's only a child. How can you give an innocent child a stroke?! A chick from Downtown after a German-Hong-Kong-Chinese-American Mini-schnauzer, huh? You are so cruel.

Sincerely yours,
Downtown Chick

P.S. Does anybody know what has happened to Walter (Scribeskidrow)? He stopped blogging in 2010. We used to encourage each other, and I used to run into his friend, who told me he thought of me as somebody, um, maybe "worthwhile?"
I hope he is doing well outside of the Row if he left all behind because he found a good life outside.

Amazon's value of sex and knowledge

Can you believe in this banner, Amazon is basically saying that it is more worthwhile to spend money on a date than on a textbook? While a guy might be a complete airhead that I can't expect, usually, I can predict the usability of a book quite accurately. So I say save the money for books.

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Sunday, February 24, 2013

I only see the perfect match

Hey everybody, if you still haven't figured this out yet, lemma tell ya, I'm single and dating guys is still the number one topic of this blog. Yeah, I usually disdain women that always talk like "my boyfriend this" "my boyfriend that" all day long or cut their wrists in the bath tub when their guys dump them but deep in my heart I like talking about dating guys. That's just how I am. I'm a two-faced bitch. So tonight I want to talk about neurotic Jewish guys.
Why am I attracted to neurotic Jewish guys? Well, let's see what I've gotten in the first place. I'm in Southern California. We all have dated our very unique local products. What are they? No, not cabernet sauvignon from Napa Valley, not our Terminator Governor and certainly not Katie Morgan, your horn dog, but our laid-back stoners from all over Los Angeles. I know you know what I mean. Stoners are easy-going, open-minded, accepting fans of vegans, ecstasy users, whales in the Pacific Ocean, solar panels, gays and even the Dalai Lama. The Californian stoners have so much love to give. They are full of love. They are surrounded by love. They wanted to give the State 2 billions in tax to help the budget crisis if we can legalize selling marijuana. So as a single woman, I have a big pool of tolerant, diverse and liberal pod-smokers to choose here. Sounds good on the outside huh? Wait, hold on a second, what if I'm a slacker myself? Like if I'd always leave dirty dishes in the sink, chicken dump sticks in the oven and forget to feed the dog, what kind of a guy is good for me?

What? She's not even Chinese? Who cares? We all look the same anyway.
An OCD guy! A guy that checks the sink, the oven, the dog, the toilet, the fridge, the shower, the laptop, the fucking everything a hundred times a day! That way, I'll never forget, or never dare forget, anything. How? Well, let's imagine the scenario: if your guy came home from work and found a tray of baked chicken drum sticks in the toaster oven while you are not home, what do you think it's gonna happen? No, not only he's gonna ask you what time you baked them, and no, not only he's gonna nag you left rotten food in the oven even if the chicken was already salted and greased that Northern Chinese people some decades ago lived on, he's actually gonna make a fucking big deal out of it that you just wish there's a hole on the other side of the toilet so you can just swim through your pee and crap and hang there for the night. It's a great idea not to forget things, isn't it?
Hm? Aw, what? Somebody has already used this pee and poop skinny dipping idea? When? Oh Transpotting? How'd you know that's my favorite movie? Oh I get it, you're just trying to get me admit I'm a drug addict. Aw, no, I'm not a friend of drugs at all. You know why? Because I'm Chinese. Anything luxurious Chinese people consume has to be ostentatious as well. Tshirt with Prada or Agnes B across in the front? Love it. Polo or crocodile on the chest? Lovely. Mercedes-Benz or Bimmer? Must-have. But anything expensive while they can't brag about to their cousins during Lunar New Year, like pure oxygen, a relationship with an ordinary woman who doesn't look like Zhang Ziyi in any way or recreational drugs? That's considered futile and wasteful in Chinese culture. We just don't spend money on things others can't see. Hope you understand.
See, I don't know if you've thought of it, but I think a Chinese woman and a Jewish guy make the best couple. Why? Because honestly, I think these two ethnicities' ancestors were roommates during college. The part that controls the thoughts of emotions and money of the human brain on these two ethnicities shows the exact same growth, just like all dogs can guard, but terriers can nip, kill and eat the entire head of a lovely kitten's or a human baby's much better than other breeds. You know what I mean?
Why is that? Well, it's in their blood.

Elisa Lam (Hotel Cecil's victim)

It must be a traumatic death. I feel so sorry for this woman. Report a crime: Anybody may submit an anonymous tip anytime, anywhere, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by phone 800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477)

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Talk on the Impact of the I Ching on Modern Dance (Thursday, October 25, 2:00 PM)

This is the kind of self-orientalism of Eastern scholars I can’t stand. Of course, Merce Cunningham didn’t read Chinese philosophy as an expert, but this’s all this guy got?! Come on, if this is all he knows what to say about Cunningham, he shouldn’t be in dance.

The Impact of the I Ching on Merce Cunningham and Deborah Hay


A Talk by Wei Chengxin, Ohio University
 
Thursday, October 25, 2012
2:00 PM

Presentation Room, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
 
There were three developmental waves of the I Ching in China, led by Fu Xi-Shi, Zhou Wen, and Confucius, respectively.  Similarly, there were three surges of orientalism in the West: Orientalism, Neo-Orientalism, and Cultural-Orientalism. Each of these surges was a result of the West’s heightened accessibility to Eastern culture. Western artists associated with each wave reflect the “relative” understanding of Asian philosophy during their time. Ruth St. Denis scratched the surface of Eastern culture at the turn of the century after she came back from the Paris Exposition Universelle. In the Neo-Orientalism era, Merce Cunningham likely encountered the I Ching because the first English translation arrived in the U.S. in 1951. While most critics believe Cunningham worked with I Ching principles, Wei Chengxin will argue that he was only standing in the “doorway” of its philosophy. On the other hand, Deborah Hay was able to steep herself in the actual philosophy due to Cultural-Orientalism brought about by the discovery of the Ma-Wang-Tui texts, which increased the dissemination, accessibility, and understanding of the I Ching. As a result, the I Ching penetrated her very life, and informed her creative process.

Wei Chengxin graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy in 1997, where he studied classical Chinese dance for eleven years. He subsequently worked for three years as principal dancer of the Guangdong Provincial Dance Theatre.  In 2004, Chengxin co-founded Moving Dragon, a contemporary dance company that focuses on cross-cultural fusion between Eastern and Western dance styles. In 2007, Chengxin was the recipient of Canada's Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Ohio University where he teaches Modern, Ballet and Dance Composition.
 
Presented in partnership with the UCLA East Asian Library, Department of World Arts and Culture / Dance, and the UCLA Confucius Institute

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Monday, September 10, 2012

Fuck Carrie Bradshaw

If you love the movie The Way We Were, you should join me to hate at least the character Carrie Bradshaw, if not also Sex and the City, the screenwriter and HBO. The often discussed reference of The Way We Were in Sex and the City happens when Carrie thinks her dream guy Mr Big dumps her and marries a stupid fashion model because she is a complicated woman, just like Hubbell dumps Katie and marries an airhead in The Way We Were. This really pisses me off because this is the biggest bourgeois joke one can possibly make of a socially considered unattractive Marxist Jewish woman waiting table and working in a radio station for different causes she believes in.

Seriously, are you kidding me? This 1990s shallow, gold-digging Jewish-American princess Carrie who buys $400-a-pair-of shoes has the nerve to compare herself with Katie, a 1940s idealistic Jewish communist activist when a jock dumps her?! This gotta be a joke. It is the biggest insult against all grassroot minority female intellectuals who sacrifice a comfortable lifestyle for their beliefs, including your favorite blogger Downtown Chick. When these airheaded city sluts are sipping their $20 cosmopolitan cocktail and having $70 dinner in New York, idealizing their hardship with men as ours, do they have the slightest thought how we get by with $90 for all groceries a month? That's their one night's expense, before tips. If you can't be poor, just don't claim our poor women's romance hardship, because you can never feel as bad with lack of both money and men if you have money, bitch.


Monday, September 3, 2012

2012 Fall Quarter: Neurotic (Jewish) Men 101

In the past few years, I have been involved with, not exactly a proper paranoid neurotic Jewish guy, but a man who is genetically and culturally equivalent. Think Larry David and Woody Allen. I obviously have not mastered him as an object of study. However, it is time to at least start composing a list of the characteristics of his species, in order to better understand this special mutation of human beings:
  1. They have to watch a movie in a theater exactly from the start to the end. In fact, they arrive the theater half an hour before the movie starts—with me. If we are not early enough, they freak out. In the past, I just also freaked out when my guy freaked out. Now, after four years of dating him, I just take Lexapro and feel fine.
  2. They know the difference between an em dash and an en dash. Very helpful.
  3. They despise and ridicule intellectuals, such as a professor who teaches a course called "TV, Media and Culture" in UCLA, even if sometimes, they happen to be one of them. 
  4. They ignore what I say in a conversation and respond by talking about a completely irrelevant yet an obsessed topic of their own, such as a strange sound or smell in the bedroom that does not really exist in reality but only in their imagination.
  5. They wear eyeglasses.
  6. They have slightly off family members. "Slightly off," here, is my very nice way to put it.
  7. They have a rigid—sometimes uninformed—opinion about medical care, medication, therapy, supplements, diet and hygiene. In their dreams, they imagine germs and viruses have scary faces and hairy legs which attack humans and look like Shrek.
  8. They don't like trying unfamiliar foods. When you force them to, they ask what the food is made of, where the ingredients are brought from, how long the ingredients have sat on the kitchen counter after being taken out from the freezer, what cleanliness grade the restaurant gets, etc. This is why Antacid is your friend when you dine with them.
  9. They are so talented and funny-as-hell that they make me want to go to bed with them. This is usually the only way they can trick attractive women to go out with them at the beginning of a relationship, unless they are also one of the ridiculously rich Jews.
  10. They have serious hypochondria.
  11. They check on and question any unusual minor everyday objects you own, such as an African black facial soap, a syringe (with no needle) or a pack of antique Japanese cigarettes (for decoration) in your bathroom.
  12. They bring a thermometer with them everywhere and take their temperature all the time. When they think they are sick, this habit gets accelerated to every five minutes. Their favorite electronic gadgets are thermometers, alarm timepieces and well designed umbrellas.
  13. They enjoy helping small, weak and poor things, like an orphan from Cambodia, a sick old dog or something. Certainly, they are not evil. However, they can be pricks or completely insensitive to others' feelings sometimes. That is not their true nature but more of their fucked-up upbringing. You can't do anything about this. Unfortunately, it is an accident of human emotional development during the modern age of catastrophe and trauma.
  14. They conform to the traditional gender role model and enjoy a relationship the most when the woman is inferior to them. If you are a hot, strong and independent girlfriend, dumb it down a little bit from time to time. They don't see women of the same or more intelligence as their ideal mates. Close the lid of a jar of spaghetti sauce as tightly as you can, then helplessly beg him to open it for you. Ask him how much interest you pay if you have a 3% APR auto loan and pay $475 a month. Nevertheless, make sure you do the latter only if your boyfriend can count. If he happens to fail in math, do the former.
  15. People either love them as genii or hate them as freaks or scumbags. There are seldom "neutral" situations.
Looks like this is a good start. I should do more research on them.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Another bizarre news story

You know what? I, an aspiring academic, read a lot of celebrity gossip in my summer break as a vacation for my brain. I wanna be dumb. Really. It feels awesome to read this absurd story about breaking the law by looking like Kim Kardashian. The capatalists of this post-modern age are wackos.


Sunday, August 26, 2012

The most bizarre news story as of late: about Samantha Brick

I don't know about you. I just feel this is downright bizarre:

'There are downsides to looking this pretty': Why women hate me for being beautiful

I love mental cases like her. It makes me feel very normal when I read stories like this. Very hopeful. There're always people crazier than I.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Dancer/performer auditions for Opera Povera production (Sat 16th 3:30 pm, Sun 17th 3:30 pm)

Dancer/performer auditions for Opera Povera production

Posted by: "jsnapper" jsnapper@yahoo.com   jsnapper

Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:04 pm (PDT)



Opera Povera is seeking dancers/performers for new opera piece in LA and Chicago. Workshop premiere will feature as part of RedCat's 2012 NOW Festival in late July.

Queer and mature bodies especially welcome; also young people 8-14.
Auditions are on Sat 16th 3:30 pm and Sun 17th 3:30 pm at REDCAT

RSVP to:
Sean Griffin
studiopovera@gmail.com

REDCAT is located at 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 in the heart of downtown Los Angeles on the northeast corner of the intersection of W. 2nd and Hope Streets.

No offense, but I think Zocalo is going downhill

An Evening with Mayim Bialik? Just… come on… really? Do you remember how refreshing you were when you first appeared, Zocalo?

 

Connecting People to Ideas and to Each Other

 

Nexus

  

The Elephant in the Race

 

Romney Should Address What His Faith Means For the Rest of Us

 

by Liza Mundy

 

Earlier this year, when Mitt Romney ventured that he relies on his wife, Ann, to tell him what American women are thinking, many of those women no doubt rolled their eyes and thought: Ah yes, the wife card. Male politicians (President Obama included) are fond of invoking their wives' experiences and insights to make the case that they, the politicians, understand women and the issues that concern them. ...


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MONDAY, JULY 09, 2012, 7:30 PM

  

An Evening with Mayim Bialik

  

A Zócalo/UCLA Event

 

Moderated by Cara Santa Maria, Science Correspondent, Huffington Post

 

Most actors aren't neuroscientists. Most neuroscientists aren't actors. And most scientists aren't women. But Dr. Mayim Bialik isn't most people. She's an actor, and a neuroscientist in real life and in fiction in her role on the hit CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory. For her Ph.D. dissertation at UCLA, Bialik focused on malfunctions of the hypothalamus, and she has applied her insights from studying the biology of the brain to the stage, to her faith, to marriage, and to her style of parenting. What is it like to be a woman in Hollywood and in science, at the same time? How does she combine her many interests and disciplines? Bialik visits Zócalo to discuss acting, the frontiers of brain research, and the role of women in science.

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

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Should My Dog and I Share A Doctor?

 

We take it for granted that doctors and veterinarians do different things. But a century ago, many town doctors took care of both humans and farm animals. This wasn't odd. Nearly every human ailment ...DETAILS

  

  

  

 

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Can Old Government Catch Up to the New Economy?

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Does Our Wealth Disparity Matter?

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Saturday, June 9, 2012

DFFLA Announces Return of L.A. New Media Festival

New Media Festival Returns To Los Angeles

Winners of International Competition of Digital,
Experimental Video Shorts To Be Showcased During
Downtown Film Festival L.A., July 6-13

 

Los Angeles – June 1, 2012 – The Los Angeles New Media Festival – the largest digital shorts competition of its kind in the U.S. – returns this summer in conjunction with Downtown Film Festival L.A. (DFFLA), July 6-13.

 

Hosted by the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), the L.A. New Media Festival showcases new artists from around the world who work in the digital realm. The winners will have their moving images and motion pictures screened in the LACDA gallery in downtown Los Angeles during Downtown Film Festival L.A.
 
Through a partnership that was forged in 2008, LACDA and DFFLA have brought the work of many independent artists on the cutting edge of digital content to the forefront of Los Angeles culture through the annual festival. This year's competition a wide variety of work in these areas:

  • non-narrative short experimental video for screening
  • looping video art for exhibit
  • interactive multimedia
  • internet art for gallery presentation
  • net.art (web art presented on websites)
  • digital stills (digital art and photography)

Filmmakers and video artists are encouraged to submit their work in consideration of exhibition at the L.A. New Media Festival, now through June 28th. More information: http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html.

 

LACDA also will be the official Cinema Lounge for Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles, hosting such events as workshops, receptions and presentations in its expansive gallery in the heart of downtown L.A.'s historic core district. For more information on these events visit DFFLA.com.

 

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