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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
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11:30 am - Cooper and Seacrest
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Larry King let Ryan Seacrest (yes, that Ryan) guest host last night's show with Nicole Richie. The banter with Cooper was just too much to handle. Cooper even mentioned that Nashville was "taking a pounding".
HOT
Transcript follows:
Let's go to - let's see if we can go to line number six, I'll work Larry's machine over here. Big Stone Gap, Virginia. You're on with Nicole Richie. Go ahead.
CALLER: Hi. First off, I'd like to say my fiance loves your hair.
RICHIE: Oh, thank you.
CALLER: Well, actually, I was talks about Ryan's.
RICHIE: I said the same thing to him.
SEACREST: Well, thank you to your fiance.
CALLER: Anyway, my question was this. Has anyone ever noticed the way you talk has changed so much?
SEACREST: You sound all grown up, Nicole.
RICHIE: Thank you. Thank you so much. No, I haven't heard that. But thank you.
SEACREST: Thank you for the call. Thanks for watching and thanks for the compliment on the hair. Natural color. Appreciate it.
All right, we're going to come back in just a second with Nicole Richie. Anderson Cooper is standing by in New York. What's coming up tonight, Anderson, on 360?
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: Hey, Ryan. How's it going? That's the biggest tie I've ever seen, by the way.
SEACREST: You know, I don't know. It is -- it's bigger than my head, isn't it?
COOPER: No, it works, it works for you.
SEACREST: Look at the size of -- your bow's tiny, mine is huge.
All right. What's coming up on the show?
COOPER: I've heard that often. We're going to be taking a look at the storm warnings going none the Midwest. Nashville is taking a pounding right now. We'll take a look at the latest on that, show you the damage. We're also going to look at an ongoing problem in Iowa. A prison break, two prisoners armed and dangerous. A massive manhunt is on the way. We'll have the latest on that.
Ryan?
SEACREST: Thank you very much, Anderson. Doing a great job. Really, really like the show. COOPER: Thanks.
SEACREST: All right. And I'll tighten up the tie. We'll be right back. More with Nicole Richie after the break and your calls. Stay with us.
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| Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
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4:52 pm - long sigh.
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Thanks. I'd love the work. What do you think I should ask her for in a project like this? Hourly or negotiate a flat fee?
Chaos is right. Johnny is still fuming that I'm not coming with him to Delaware and this morning he left without even saying goodbye and got pissed off when I flipped the bathroom fan on AFTER my shower instead of BEFORE. He's been so grumpy about his job, the eagles' spiraling fortunes and now the fact that he has to hang out with his parents during thanksgiving instead of us and his best friend from high school is not coming to DE for the holidays, he's going to Hawaii. He's lording over me to cancel the dinner here and call in sick on Friday and go with him to Delaware.
Jesus.
He hasn't called me at all today.
If he doesn't make me jump from my balcony before next thursday, the plan is to have dinner at my house with the following guests: Me, You, Andrew, Nicole, Evan, Peter and Dan (and maybe Paul). So that's seven people.
Johnny has planned a menu and he wants me to assign meals to folks. You can bring a finished dish if you want, or you can come over early (or the night before) and cook it at my place. Lord knows my kitchen is perfect for it. I will share a menu with everyone and let them choose thier dish. I think that makes it easy. Want to help me with the table setting and seating arrangements? This could be lots of fun. We can go all Martha and shit.
Wow, planning dinner makes me fell a little better.
I'm staying at my parents house. Evan will stay with me and have dinner on Saturday and then we're planning on a trip to Atlantic City in the evening. Who knows if johnny will come. It seems like he only does things like that with anyone besides me. When do you need to be in Doylestown? I can get you to the R2 and then you can take the Septa into town and transfer out at 30th street station onto the R5. See attached.
Let me know.
--- Sarah wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I just talked to Michelle from CARE (Jenn's
> replacement). She's
> looking to have a full page ad designed for Capitol
> File magazine for CARE.
> I told her I was on deadline and gave her your
> contact info, so she might be
> calling you.
>
> Also, I wanted to find out your thanksgiving plans.
> Is it cool if Andrew,
> Nicole and I join you and Evan and guests on TG? If
> so, each of us can make
> a specialty tailored dish to accompany the menu.
> Have any ideas? I also need
> to figure out my plan for that weekend. If you and
> Evan are going up on
> Friday, I might try to tag along but I need to
> figure out where to stay
> Friday night because I'm going to Doylestown on
> Saturday. Were you planning
> on staying at Johnny's family's house? Don't you
> love the chaos of holidays?
> I'm going to be in St. Louis this weekend, so I want
> to get this crap
> figured out sometime early next week...
>
> How are things in No News land?
>
> -sns
>
>
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| Friday, June 10th, 2005
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1:41 pm - notes part II
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Subject: Re: hi baby
Date: June 10, 2005 1:37:18 PM EDT
ok, so the fitness center consisted of a treadmill, two stationary bikes and an elliptical machine. Why would you run inside when you can run OUTSIDE and SEE SACRAMENTO! Ran down Capital Mall and around the capitol building. There were lots of folks out walking, but NO ONE running or jogging. There are quite a good number of trees in this town. And even the run down parts are quite quaint. I still haven't figured out these californians and their cross walk habits. They like to wait for the walk signal, even when there's no crossing traffic. I feel weird walking against the light, like some hidden jay walking cop is going to bust out and arrest me.
The Embassy Suites is across the street from Old Sac, a Hollywood facade of a mining town square with raised clapboard sidewalks and cobblestone pavement. The Sacramento Southern Railroad runs tourist jaunts to the town border. The best part are the hordes of schoolchildren milling about at the Capitol, in front of the IMAX and now this railroad excursion. Every one of them saw fit to holler from the railcars and wave. I've never felt so popular.
Love, me.
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1:40 pm - notes from the field
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Subject: hi baby
Date: June 10, 2005 12:22:07 PM EDT
I'm going to the fitness center. I'll call you later. I loves you. Ayumi and I went to this place in old sac last night called the Back Door Lounge and had one drink. There was a cute boy there but he was drunk and his girlfriend was all over him. I had breakfast this morning with Clay Bennett. He's a socialist that draws for the Christian Science Monitor.
LOVE, me.
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| Sunday, April 24th, 2005
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5:49 pm
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stole this from Julie Park's Xanga.
Moving to a new apt tomorrow. Or at least piecemeal. We'll be fully moved in next monday. Any sugs on a mover?
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| Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
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7:46 am - first big day
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today I start my new job at U.S. News. I asked Johnny to walk me to the bus stop. I also asked him to tell the bus driver that it was my first day and to make sure that I get off at the right stop.
I think the day care has really gotten to me now.
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| Friday, December 17th, 2004
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3:03 pm - Friday
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I'm watching a spider wrap a housefly into a web. It's slightly poetic that it should go out this way, since I had tried to smash it on the window when it kept bumping up against the glass. At least this way it's all a part of the BIG PLAN.
It's also fascinating because I have nothing better to do.
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| Tuesday, December 7th, 2004
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2:26 pm - die another day is not on the list
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well, the first thing to accomplish is not to sleep too much this week. it's delaware day today, so I fear that my evening hours will be preoccupied with a sorry excuse for celebration.
but otherwise, I'm going to try to go to the gym lots and keep plugging away at job openings, although at this point, I think they've all been filled.
boooooo.
I recovered somewhat. went home yesterday to see the rents. also got new tires on my car. i'm changing registration and license to DC. saaaaadd day. but while I was home my mom filled me up with amoxilcillan that she got from thailand (the pharmacy is full now) and some ginger tea that is waaaay tooo sweet. half a packet next time.
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| Saturday, November 27th, 2004
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6:19 pm - a letter
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Hi Chris:
I just viewed your "What is an Asian?" docu. A friend of mine from San Francisco sent me the link.
Your central question is a poignant one, made more pertinent by the fact that you are hapa, which complicates your identity relative to your current friends. The intersection of your racial identity, coupled with your sexuality and regional identity comprise a unique amalgamation of person that is, at best, hard to label. But the way you define yourself resonates with me.
While I think your film does well with exploring these questions, I'd be interested in seeing this discussed in more depth, in particular through the lens of other asian americans elsewhere in the country, and maybe specifically hapas. I am half-Thai. My mother moved to Louisiana for college but finished her schooling in Nashville, where she me my father and I was born a few years later (I often tell folks I am half Thai, half Tennessee--always a few chuckles from that). Growing up in Nashville and Memphis and subsequently Delaware comprised an unusual racial identity for me. Memphis, where I spent a good portion of my childhood (and as you can imagine), is not known for its extensive multicultural makeup during the early 1980s. I don't recall any other Asians, of any decent, in my classrooms from daycare through fourth grade. I think there might have been one. And maybe my parents knew a bi-racial couple from work. Memphis, and to an extent Nashville was a biracial town, black and white, with not a large variation in between.
Delaware opened things up quite a bit. And it was here that I started to connect with my Thai heritage. Even with multiple trips to see my mother's family in Thailand, any reconnection in East Coast cities is pretty much limited to more of a pan-Asian identity rather than a specifically Thai one. Chinatowns abound, K-town and Vietnamese restaraunts and pho shops are just about the extent of any rekindling of ethnic heritage. I didn't meet anyone else of thai descent in Delaware until my junior year of high school. My class had a total of three Asians, two full blood (and FOBy) Chinese students (their parents owned a local takeout) and a half Japanese boy and me (thus the total of three).
Surprisingly, it wasn't until I went back to Nashville for college that I really started to make strides in understanding my own ethnic identity. Joining the Asian American student union (we're still an umbrella group, not the country specific groups I'm sure exist in all UC schools), helped to make those connections. In fact, I'm sure I learned more in social experience from those Asians Americans than I had through my own explorations in Philadelphia or even New York (it's so hard when there's a huge language barrier). Coupled with a rigorous schooling in sociological method and critical thinking, I started to understand this idea of multiple intersecting identities that factor in all these different influences rather than compartmentalizing into separate labels and all the stereotypical baggage those labels bring.
My Southern identity makes my overall identity all the more complicated. I still find it so odd when I meet an American from the South, complete with local vernacular and colloquialisms that immediately identify her regional affiliation. My boyfriend (who is white and from Delaware) simply hates it when I break out in accent (although at times he finds it cute).
Ok, this is part one. I have a little more to say, but I have to get ready for a wedding. I'm in Texas for the week.
Sorry to bore you if you've already heard this. Let me know if I'm a crazy cook.
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| Friday, November 26th, 2004
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2:54 am - a texas sized holiday
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Turkey and the trimmings were out in force at Shade Tree Saloon and Grill, a biker bar just north of San Antonio on highway 281 where Jonathan, Molly and Houston stopped for dinner at around six. The three were on their way to Austin after spending a day in the bustling metropolis.
We're in the car on the way to Austin, which should be a great evening. We'll head northeast to Longview and Jennifer's wedding tomorrow. It's several hours' drive, so we'll have to leave by noonish or so. We'll see how that goes.
Speaking of noonish, woke up today at 12:32 when someone called, probably to see if we were still in the room. The place was a mess, Molly was hungover to the point of getting sick and I had that sickly feeling that I get when I've been out drinking all night and sitting at my desk waiting for the pain to go away.
The Emily Morgan hotel is a fabulous property with substandard service. Our room overlooked the Alamo, which we quickly toured earlier in the day. Maybe they had their B team out today.
Moseyed on the Riverwalk, which is a great little part of town. Had margaritas and bruschetta. Sketched a little (I have a lot to learn).
Stopped at the zoo on the way out of town. Good thing -- I wouldn't have made it through the drive if we hadn't had a relaxing stroll through the park. The animals were cackling at us, the weather was stunning and the waxing nostalgia only cost $1 (you have your choice of lion, cougar, elephant, giraffe, train or komodo dragon). Corn dogs, nachos and onion rings for lunch. It was a little boy's paradise.
current music: Intercontinental Bliss -- The Intercontinental Channel
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| Wednesday, November 17th, 2004
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2:49 pm - panic attack
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blook rushing to my face.
An AME came over to talk about a graphic and asked me about johnny's picture on my desk.
"who's that?" "oh, it's my roommate." "oh, nice."
one more week here.
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9:53 am - a penny for your thoughts
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regarding MNF's intro featuring desparate housewives
I'm sick of this shit. I'm sure all the crazy people
who called or wrote were from Virginia, Tennessee,
Georgia, Alabama, South Dakota, Kansas, etc. What
they did in the intro was stupid and not funny but
there was nothing wrong with it. It's no more racy
than what's on Desperate Housewives or a daytime soap.
People need to get their noses out of the Bible, pick
up a fucking book and realize we live in the 21st
Century. They also need to leave TO alone! He's
always being picked on!
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| Thursday, November 11th, 2004
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8:33 am - say it, frank!
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Everything about the election results - and about American culture itself - confirms an inescapable reality: John Kerry's defeat notwithstanding, it's blue America, not red, that is inexorably winning the culture war, and by a landslide. Kerry voters who have been flagellating themselves since Election Day with a vengeance worthy of "The Passion of the Christ" should wake up and smell the Chardonnay.
Frank Rich, "On 'Moral Values,' It's Blue in a Landslide". New York Times. 14 Nov. 2004.
(who also spoke at Vanderbilt last night as part of the Chancellor's Lectures)
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| Monday, November 8th, 2004
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11:46 pm - yuck
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| Friday, November 5th, 2004
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3:50 pm - it's cold but sunny with a slight breeze
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can I just say that yesterday was a boondogle of a day?
I'm drinking chrysanthemum tea (courtesy of daniel and my newly initiated french press).
yay for cold days and chrysanthemum teas! (try typing chrysanthemum five times fast).
chrysatnthemum
chrustyantemun
chhrusyatnamtyhemum
chrustyatmurum
chruatycamum
that was hrd.
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1:22 pm - advice from dr. herbert
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today's nytimes.
Here's my advice: You had a couple of days to indulge your depression - now, get over it. The election's been lost but there's still a country to save, and with the current leadership that won't be easy. Crucial matters that have been taken for granted too long - like the Supreme Court and Social Security - are at risk. Caving in to depression and a sense of helplessness should not be an option when the country is speeding toward an abyss.
Roll up your sleeves and do what you can. Talk to your neighbors. Call or write your elected officials. Volunteer to help in political campaigns. Circulate petitions. Attend meetings. Protest. Run for office. Support good candidates who are running for office. Register people to vote. Reach out to the young and the apathetic. Raise money. Stay informed. And vote, vote, vote - every chance you get.
Democracy is a breeze during good times. It's when the storms are raging that citizenship is put to the test. And there's a hell of a wind blowing right now.
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| Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
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3:52 pm - a simple guide
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3:51 pm - wonkette to the rescue
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Wonkette Answers: Where to Now? email this post
So, as many of my friends out here in "liberal" San Francisco feel, can we start a petition drive to secede from the country? And where and how do I find a outlet for my uncontrollable rage at the stupidity and dangerous rightwing trend of this country? While punching a republican and/or disowning my Bush voting parents provides a small relief, I want to know what I can do to get on the ground floor of the revolution to save America for my kids. Please help. I can't keep popping vicodin and drinking for the next 4 years.
-Cinner
and
Where are all the hip young intellectuals heading? I'd hate to end up in France if all the cool kids are going to Canada, and vice versa.
Sign me,
MG.
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12:55 pm - IT HAPPENED
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hell froze over last night in the form of a major snowstorm in texas. as if that isn't an omen. I'm just waiting for the pigs.
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12:09 pm - 1984 is here, just 20 years late
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