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Here are some photos I took in Chinatown last weekend:

Above: Buddha Kitsch
Below: Lychees, Rambutans, and Dragon Fruits

Above: Pork and Crab Soup Dumplings from Joe’s Shanghai - not as good as Din Tai Fung, but the best I’ve had in New York.
Below: Shanghai Noodle Soup from Joe’s Shanghai

See the complete set on Flickr.

I started a new job last Thursday at Human Rights Watch. My official job title is Associate in Development and Outreach. I’ve spent the first few days getting settled in, oriented, and setting up meetings. The office is half empty right now since many of the staff are out on holiday, but [...]

A Portrait of the Artists as Hot Young Freaks, a biography of Hepnova (the band formerly known as The Ronald Raygun), by Jon Rodis (pictured sitting above).
Stay tuned for the new Hepnova album late 2007/early 2008!

 

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Today I tried out to be a teacher for an SAT prep company called Revolution Prep. There were about 13 of us at the audition. We had to teach a short, non-SAT-related lesson on the topic of our choice as a demonstration of our classroom teaching potential. I did an interactive lesson [...]