January 2010
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“Kabul smells like lapsang from all the burning wood and it looks just like I had...”
– [redacted], who is currently in Afghanistan.
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WatchDINNER PARTY, a 1-minute stopmotion video by the ever talented Hana Tanimura.
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“Like pasties in a burlesque show or thong underwear, bleeps are a saucy wink at...”
– “Jersey Jetsam” | The New Yorker
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“Our ability to take any pleasure, or even interest, in shows like this—in which...”
– “Jersey Jetsam” |The New Yorker
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In what language do you think and/or feel?
I think in English because that is the language in which I have most been educated and taught to reason and comprehend academically. I feel in Korean, Hebrew, and French depending on the circumstance. I exasperate in Korean, and I exclaim in Hebrew. I use French for that little n’importe quoi. Comment dire… C’est...
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“Movie-star performing is a peculiar, poorly understood subset of the art of...”
– Being George Clooney - Not as Easy as It Looks | The New York Times
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How did you become so talented?
This is a trick question.
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when will you come back to new york to hang out with greg luna?
Tentative, but I’m planning a trip back stateside in March/April! Get ready, because you never know when I’ll creep up behind you on Avenue B!
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what is the meanning of your name
You’re going to have to work for this one. Find the Chinese characters of my name and decipher the meaning that way.
Hint: ‘Won’ means girl.
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How’s the poetry llife ?
This is my answer, by way of Percy Bysshe Shelley: http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~djb/shelley/1880onlife.html .
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What’s your mom’s website?
I wish I knew. Sneaky Mama Yoon!
Responder’s note: My mother apparently has a Korean blog with quite a following. I’ve been trying to find it, only to have failed. If anyone knows anything, you know where to email me.
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Why are you so pretty?
Good genes from my parents whom I refer to as Mama and Papa Yoon. I owe everything I know about beauty and style to my sister.
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how did you end up living in israel? you do live in israel, right?
My father’s job led to me living in Israel for about six years as a child. I am currently in Jerusalem.
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“My fortune for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing...”
– Nietzsche on amor fati (via arche)
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“Editing in Baghdad taught me that you have to slice through these multiple...”
– Associated Press photographer Ben Curtis (Via, It Was All Started by a Mouse)
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In immense amount of pain
My right jaw is paralyzed with pain due to the wisdom teeth growth on both the top and the bottom rows of my teeth. I’m in pain ergo I cannot eat. I cannot eat ergo I’m hungry. I am hungry and in pain, ergo I am cranky.
On a side note, wisdom tooth in Korean literally means ‘love tooth’. Some say it’s because Koreans believe wisdom teeth hurt just like it does to...
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North Korean school in the Gaza Strip
I dreamt a very bizarre dream last night. I was roaming the Gaza Strip, trying to do some reporting on a topic that wasn’t all that clear. I was trying to talk to Gazans in my very broken Arabic and couldn’t communicate with them at all. I resorted to speaking Hebrew with them (which is what I do in the West Bank because so many Palestinians speak fluent Hebrew from the Oslo days when...
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“At Oxford University, sometime in the 19th century, the roof of New College’s...”
– Anecdote (mostly apocryphal) introducing GOOD magazine’s “Slow Down” issue, which I just got in the mail today and which I’m particularly loving. (via caro)