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In association with Amazon September 15, 2006

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Sweet! Buy stuff!

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More than a dream September 13, 2006

Posted by Niels in : Magazine , 3 comments

If I remember correctly, the idea for the magazine came up as Craig and I were driving around Seattle.  “Hey, that would be a cool magazine,” we said.

We looked into it a little more, talked about the types of articles we would have, made a list of people to contact.

I went back to New York, ordered some books off Amazon, and sent out a few emails.

And then everything hit the fan.

Everyone we’ve contacted has been ridiculously enthusiastic.  Craig and I made a list of our “dream team” advisory board, and so far even our longshots have been coming through.  Talking to random people on the street in New York, everyone has a cousin or a friend in publishing whom they want to put us in touch with.  An amazing graphics designer with magazine experience fell in our lap outside Barnes and Noble.  Every day this silly idea becomes more and more real.  This is actually going to happen.

Incredible.

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Home is where the heart is September 6, 2006

Posted by Niels in : Personal , 2 comments

While wandering the aisles of the supermarket today, I considered buying a half dozen bagels.  I like bagels with cream cheese for breakfast - but I’ve already got more bread than I can use for my peanut butter and banana toast.  And I like bagels with melted cheddar cheese and tomato for lunch - but I never make lunch, because I buy it at the company cafeteria during the week and I’m in the city on the weekends.  Bagels make a good surrogate bun for veggie burgers, but my pasta fixin’s go bad if I don’t eat them quickly enough.  So I put the bagels back on the shelf.

And that’s when I realized why I’m not totally happy here.  My existence feels so temporary.  My apartment is totally bare.  I’m only there for a few hours Monday-Thursday between work and sleep, and I spend a lot of those hours grocery shopping or doing laundry.  On the weekends I couchsurf around New York City.

I’ve made so many great new friends here, and reconnected with some wonderful old ones, but without a place to call home I still feel a sense of loneliness.  It’ll be good to be back in Berkeley.

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Asian girls - the gateway drug September 2, 2006

Posted by Niels in : Life, the universe, and everything , 1 comment so far

I have a friend (an Asian girl, as it happens) who claims that Asian girls are the gateway drug to homosexuality.  In other words, the last girl a gay guy dates tends to be Asian.  This only holds for non-Asian gay guys, though, because the theory goes as follows:

If you’re gay, perhaps you feel like you don’t quite fit into the mainstream culture, so you try dating someone outside your culture.  Like a first generation Asian girl.  Then you accept it’s not doing it for you, you’re just gay.

My friend bases this theory on a fair amount of anecdotal evidence.  (She’s had some bad luck.)  I choose to ignore its dubious veracity because it’s such a fun theory to bring up around friends who have caught the yellow fever.  That and the theory that dating Asian girls is a culturally accepted form of pedophilia.

P.S.  If you were not offended by this post, please leave your age and race in the comments and I will take care of you in the future.

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