New Year, New Inspiration

Aerial Boston (Fenway & Boston Common) from Above Summit on Vimeo.

The Meanings of the Selfie, by James Franco :)

"Asians are the Wedge"
Lots of good stuff, but also I've heard people try to put Asians down as an immigrant group by saying "you know, you guys have the highest median income - even higher than Whites!" but this article makes the important clarification - "However, per capita income of Asian Americans is lower than for whites. Asian households make more because they contain more earners, probably as a result of living in households that benefit from the retirement incomes of elders." 

and continues on to say:

More troubling, according to the report A Community of Contrasts, the 2011 per capita income of Taiwanese Americans was $38,312. However, per capita income of Hmong Americans was only $10,949. That makes the Hmong the lowest per capita earners by ethnicity among all Americans. And Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Bangladeshis are pretty much in the same boat, earning even less than African Americans.
Worse yet, the model minority myth is dehumanizing. Casting us as super human is the flip side of casting other people of color as less than human, making all of us strangers to a normative standard that is white.
As long as we are treated as exotic others, the script can be switched, and Asians may find ourselves back where we started, cast again as foreign invaders. Either way, we’re still a wedge in the hands of white supremacy.

Dreams

And I quote,

3 major dreams: 

1. being chased through snowy trails and streams in the dark of night by brown and polar bear cubs + moms 

2. a brief rugby scenario where brian earley was also there and did not acknowledge me, no dogs. i was pleasantly surprised 

3. damn i just forgot! dana called while I was chopping food for mom cooking, some weird stuff while laying over in philly while I hooked up the phone to my computer but kept getting pop ups and fighting viruses while she sang a song with psychedelic electronic visuals, also faxed Meesh / the team's fax machine?? ("tell emhsieh she left some of her stuff at our house, the place is messy but not trashed though") and I was all huh??? I've never been to Germany let alone her house hahaha and I def didn't trash the house either lol meesh and I were so confused... also where did she find her/our fax number?? so smart. 

3.5 some big man coach was teaching some high school boys about lineouts and making zero sense, spewing wrong information and tactics everywhere. sue parker and I were both like wtf 

4. battle around school area / tower where got shot but still teleported enemy to hospital afterward with dream apparition powers 

5. running through the deserted empty streets of providence to try and get back to my car but the streets are pitch black and no lamp posts. super scary so I turned around to head back under the bridge to thayer street district where things are lively and poppin' and brightly lit. 

6. stan was back in town! and told someone to read her blog 

that was more than 3.

Some background: To hold all of the [non-zero (but likely less than 1) number of] fans over until my next update... here's exactly what I wrote down in my overflowing dream log on Monday when I awoke with sickness and promptly went back to sleep. In my very brief and blurry moments of consciousness I managed to get all of this down in a somewhat clear and organized manner. I was pleasantly surprised when I emerged from deep slumber 5 hours later to find this window into my subconscious brain. Enjoy!

ps. I have a lot of things in the blog pipeline, I promise! ...just a little too lazy (read: disorganized) to get myself together and post. They're coming soon! Happy holidays :)

THIS.

THIS

http://www.ongamers.com/articles/world-premiere-sons-of-starcraft-part-1/1100-136/

is everything. Everything I've ever dreamed of. 

How things work

sewing machine (source)

dreams (source)

Life (source)

teehee

smart ^.^

the dream

especially awesome is the Jacques Rogge highlight/farewell vid and the bits about envelope opening and happiness around rugby being added ^^

http://www.olympic.org/2020-host-city-election

via Eli Wolff

Monthly health plug! Snute Fighting!

"For the economy to be healthy, America has to remain unhealthy."
An interesting read about how lifestyle can be pre-determined Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

Sweet article from nyt about Li Na! I'm a fan. Break the mold!

Don't take Ibu! or what we used to call candy / Vitimin I on our rugby team haha. I've heard it from the Romero's (Paul, Jordan), and here it is again! Adverse health effects include Anemia, hearing loss, hypertension, miscarriage, and more. Alternatives:

• Ginger capsules
• Chinese skullcap / baicalin
• omega-3 fatty acids
• panax ginseng
• holy basil

and more! they can be equivalent or better at reducing pain and inflammation.

Finally, Snute writes about Losing in Challenger as a full-time player forum link

my thoughts:

I can't help but thinking of that scene in She's the Man when Viola says to Duke, "I can relate!" in a super bro-y tone.