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Ji In

aloha kakou

About Me

Writer, editor, nerd

Made in Korea, assimilated in the Midwest, nesting in Hawai'i

Everything else is classified.

My Interests

Roadside fruit stands, boots and other inappropriate footwear, independent bookstores, street fairs, appetizers and foods you dip in sauce, APIA identity, Asian diaspora, magazines, my nephews and nieces, singing in the car, spicy soft tofu soup, noraebang, thwarting evil, and taking pictures of my cats acting like furry little people

I'd like to meet:

Fellow TRAs, KADs, transcultural exiles and islanders.

W, so I could kick him in the nuts.

Funny people who don't realize they're funny.

Best sneezing panda video ever!

I can't help myself.

Music:

goes great with chicken

Movies:

Films by Hayao Miyazaki, Zhang Yimou, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Christopher Guest and Monty Python. Also: Napoleon Dynamite, LOTR, Il Postino, Ong Bak, Picture Bride, Jibeuro, Spring Summer Fall Winter ... and Spring, and oh so many more

Television:

Project Runway, So You Think You Can Dance, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Grey's Anatomy, Tim Gunn's Guide to Style, What Not to Wear, My Name is Kim Sam-Soon

Books:

Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Handmaid's Tale, Neverwhere, Harry Potter, The Door Into Summer, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Asian American Dreams, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, Slaughterhouse Five, Still Life With Woodpecker, Still Life With Rice, In the Absence of Sun, The Language of Blood, The Associated Press Stylebook

Heroes:


My Blog

Cane spider infestation

I'm not sure whether it's fortunate that these cane spiders keep popping up in the evening while the husband is around and available to slaughter them, or if that's a foolish thing to feel l...
Posted by Ji In on Thu, 03 May 2007 02:49:00 PST