Tag Archives: life

Tom Yung Goong for the soul

Being home sick ain’t what it used to be.
But let’s face it …what it used to be sucked, too.
Remember pleading your case to Mom in that crucial half-hour window, before you had to get your uniform on to make it to the bus stop in time? And let’s say she bought it this time. [...]

Bowling Bachelorettes in Brooklyn

This weekend’s gratitude journal…

Thank you for what must have been the smoothest trip from Queens to Brooklyn this city has ever seen. Although this did negatively impact my hairstyle, (more time was needed for the curls to naturally dry before applying my patented finger-scrunching technique,) I was thrilled to arrive in Brooklyn via public [...]

Upstate

For those of you who don’t live in New York City, let me make one thing clear; you don’t live in New York City. You live with New York City. It’s like the most f’d up, co-dependent relationship ever. You’re madly in love with its amazing food, crazy cultural offerings, and the [...]

Well, that’s what I heard!!

Ohhhhh, come awwwwwwn! You don’t want a free copy of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao?! Are you kidding me with this?! You do know it starts with a quote from Fantastic Four, moves on to a poem from Derek Walcott, and starts with a chapter called “Ghetto Nerd at the [...]

Oh what a feeling, Staring at the Ceiling!

I’m a douche.
I’m kinda sorry that I haven’t been writing more regularly, but honestly I’m really not. I would have said douche-y things.
Don’t worry, I am fine. Really. It’s just that my whole world has turned upside down in the past two weeks, bringing on major e-motion sickness. My only relief has [...]