I really didn’t like the color of my shiny new car back in 2004.  I wanted green but that would take months, the salesman said, and I was impatient.   The lot only had silver, black, or red.  The world needed another black or red car like it needed another term with G.W. Bush, so I [...]

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“I know why they’re having the wedding at 7 o’clock,” Amy said as she drove. I listened as I took a picture of the giant Uniroyal tire. “So they don’t have to serve food,” Amy complained. Corean church without food?  Heaven forbid. Five years ago, before we moved, we went to Corean church … religiously, [...]

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Lately, my ass has been getting kicked by a cold. It’s hard to shake when you’re running around all day at work, up all night on call, and staying up too late on your nights in between (watching the UFC and There Will Be Blood). The part I hate the most is the runny nose. [...]

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I’ve always despised the concept of “family” growing up. To me, families were inherently dysfunctional groups of loud, fat, old, annoying, and/or pushy people, with their self-indulgent in-jokes and get-togethers. Families were for the weak and the co-dependent. That’s not to say they weren’t intriguing sometimes. For example, I liked the movie The Family Stone [...]

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