Here is a soundtrack while you snoop through my refrigerator: Hua’s Fridge muxtape
(I am hooked on Muxtape. Here are more.)
Fifteen pieces of flare are required to work in this kitchen. The photograph in the top left corner is of
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Author Archives: hua
April 25, 2008
Fridgin’ Out: Professor of Muxtapes and Flare
December 13, 2007
“IT’S HOT OUT HERE, RELOCATE TO POUGHKEEPSIE”
-Capone-N-Noreaga featuring Tragedy, “Stay Tuned”
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(I have never seen this many people on Main Street, circa 2007)
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“The Thai spot in Beacon” is conveniently located next door to the “Thai grocer in Beacon,” and on this night I ended up there after thwarted attempts to buy records (the
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July 16, 2007
MORIMOTO, GRAMERCY TAVERN, MORELS, BROWN SUGAR COFFEE CAKE
On the way home just now I spied a kidnapper van boasting that it contained “JOSE’S BAGELS.” It struck me as odd that a commercial bagelsman–in New York of all places–would stick with his given name of “Jose.” Absolute Bagels, for example, does not advertise itself as “SOME THAI PEOPLES’ BAGELS.” (note that the worst thing
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July 3, 2007
CAN’T STOP THE PROFIT
As today is the 4th of July in some parts of the world, I think it is important to reflect upon the gains we have made as a human race. And, as such, I am exercising my freedom from having to carry a camera to every restaurant I go to. Instead, I have drawn you a picture:
June 21, 2007
HI I’M NEW HERE MY NAME IS HUA AND
I’ve just come back from a brief vacation to Paris and Berlin–I rarely vacation, so upon returning I’ve regaled everyone I’ve spoken to with the dreadfully banal, I-see-the-world-anew!-type minutiae familiar to anyone who has attended college and encountered–in the words of one friend tired of my anecdotes–”that annoying kid who studies abroad for a semester and then starts rolling his
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