If It Feels Good Do It

But if you do, that’s ok.
Currently en route to Japan. I apologize for the convenience.
Of not hitting on your girlfriend. For the next three weeks. For those of you in California.

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The title is complete bullshit. Well, maybe not complete bullshit. But the content that follows is the true story of my life.
I started to see a lot more of Michael. Once, he drove my mom and I to the Golden Gate Park in his sister’s Maroon Toyota Camry. We threw a Frisbee there. It was [...]

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IAN IAN IAN EXCLUSIVE REPORT
I’m going to Japan on December 31st. I’ll stay there for 12 days. Then I’ll go to Taiwan. I’ll return in late Janurary.
THIS CONCLUDES THE IAN IAN IAN EXCLUSIVE REPORT
If there is one thing I have faith in, it is you. You are not stupid. And I know what you are [...]

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People say Christmas is commercial. Whatever, who cares? This is America, it’s all commercial. If it’s not commercial, it’s communist. And if it’s communist, it’s not American.
Except this blog. It is not communist, and it’s not commercial. It is your one stop shop for realness. It is your beacon of integrity in a world of [...]

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There is a graveyard in Benicia where my friend is buried. Jonathan Flannery. I went there today.
No matter how many times I visit, it always takes me a while to find the headstone again.
But finally I do. I can’t stop staring at his name engraved there.
I try to talk to him. I don’t know if [...]

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My mom is pretty cool.
A few months ago I was at a family dinner. Chinese people everywhere. She walked up to my seat.
“Hey, Ian. Guess what? Metallica is going to be playing in Oakland.”
“Uh, yeah. I know that mother.”
“Well, do you want to go?”
“Really?”
One of the band members trains at my mom’s gym. I think [...]

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When you stay home all day everyday, little things stop mattering so much. For example, shutting the door when you urinate.
The door to the bathroom I mean. But why stop there?
Like the front door. Why not leave that one open too? At the apartment I like to leave it open so to get some air [...]

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One of the first things L did upon moving into my place was to cook Chinese radish. It had a very particular smell. I didn’t mind, but L apologized profusely. Then she regularly cooked that same type of radish, and regularly apologized profusely.
L’s mom went back to China. Shortly thereafter, L told me she [...]

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I said it before and I’ll say it again: L and her mother were a dynamic-duo of criticism. Monday through Friday, plus the other two days of the week, they had a hobby. It was to sit at the dining-room table and criticize everything that came within five feet. They were like guard-dogs. But rather [...]

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The title is complete bullshit. Well, maybe not complete bullshit. But the content is the true story of my life. I was inspired by thebaglady’s continuing translations of her Dad’s story, Fifteen Years In America and motivated by this comment that I left regarding it.
My dad taught part time at a community college, and he [...]

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