The Times Gets Another Scoop
For those among you who don't spend Sunday curled up with a mocha latte and the pages of the Grey Lady, let me call your attention to this piece, written by me, about a very important topic. When I was a kid, I dreamed of writing for the Times, but those dreams usually involved me reporting from Capitol Hill or someplace like Afghanistan. I didn't imagine that I'd be writing about giving a bad dance party at my son's preschool. My editorial presence provides a sure sign of the paper's decline, yet there it is, on the microfiche for all eternity. Does microfiche even still exist?
In other news, Mother's Day involved dim-sum, as well as a two-hour wait for dim sum with seemingly every Chinese-American in the San Gabriel Valley. These were no Silverlake brunch tables for three. We had many groups of 20 to wade through before we got to watch Elijah eat two strands of jellyfish and several iterations of fried shrimp paste. Regina got her taro ball, though, and she was happy. There were presents small and large and a trip to Costco where we bought a three-foot salami and a jar of 1200 jellybeans.
You really should check out Offsprung. When I thought of this site a year ago, I never imagined it would be this good.
Comments
When will Offsprung be available for iGoogle? (Doesn't pop up when you search for new content.)
Posted by: Danielle | May 14, 2007 9:39 AM
Congrats on the Times piece. Bad dance parties for children are indeed all the news that's fit to print. After all, isn't it somehow a metaphor for what Dubya is doing in Iraq? No? Well, I tried.
Aside: I think you need to fix your hotlink to Offsprung -- your blog address is tangled up with it.
Posted by: PhillyD | May 14, 2007 1:45 PM
I think that everyone's had a flunker like that. I met up with my son's class at the university's gallery where I had a show. It was chaotic at best. The curator, who happens to be my boss, turned red and retreated to his office. The kids had fun for about a minute and then it went south.
Oh and microfiche still exists. I spent 3 years working for the campus library and believe me it's still there. Recently the archives announced to the town that they were going to put all the paper docs on microfiche. There is a fifty year lag in the archives timeline.
Posted by: Ashley | May 15, 2007 9:18 AM
Where's your particular dim sum place? When am I most homesick for LA? When I go to Boston's chinatown and compare any restaurant there to, say, the Empress Pavilion.
Posted by: Bryan | May 15, 2007 9:09 PM