You’re so fine, you’re so fine, you blow my mind

I was going to write some fluffy and wanky blog about how it’s “Rocktober” and talk at length about all the supposedly cool shows that I’m going to or I want to attend this month: Guster, Decemberists, The Stills, Radiodread (reggae-ified OK Computer), Dave Sedaris, Neil Gaiman… But really, that’s something more of a [...]

The mandatory goth post about death

(Copyright Karen Chu 2006. Steal anything and I’ll hunt you down, skin you alive, and wear your skin and pretend to be you and frame you for countless assasination charges. Cheers! ^_^ )
I’m not particularly a dark person or a teen-angst-ridden indie art school wanker but the idea of death has been ricocheting [...]

But the Princess is in another church!

Marriage is holy. So are childhood videogame memories. So why not combine them and create a full-blown holy force of confectionary bliss? This person did. Actually, the Flickr Set info noted that it was the bride who surprised her hubby-to-be with this exquisite, yet whimsical childhood dream cake. It’s complete with ebayed rare Club Nintendo [...]

Wii didn’t start the fire

So I promised myself that this blog will generally keep away from Digital-Gaming Land, but there are exceptions. And that exception is my generation’s good friend, Nintendo. Sure, they have been losing the current-gen race. (I blame the Americans.) Sure, all of us guffawed when their next generation hardware featured a [...]

Pseudo-stoned

After a very long day at work, I finally came home at around 10pm. I gleefully steeped in my veg time…brain-dead in my PJs and infront of some random Food Network show. Then at 11pm, I got the call to go hang out with some people at Buddha Bar all the way up [...]

Is “internet fame” an oxymoron?

A few days ago, ex-intern extraordinaire Greg Ma messaged me in utter shock. He was at the State Farm agency running “adult” errands like insurance, carmumbo jumbo, or just important things and an agent asked him if he works for 1UP. Apparently, State Farm Guy recognized Greg from my 1UP blog. By extension, State Farm [...]