tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60221252012-02-19T22:09:26.426-05:00The official blog of the whitest Asian man alive.JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-32018377638738650232010-03-07T12:38:00.002-05:002010-03-07T12:42:11.677-05:00

Weighing in at 10 pounds, 3 ounces, and 22 inches, from Washington, DC (by way of Seoul, Korea and Seattle, WA) . . . BABY JONAH! Our first baby, and he's a doozie. Cute as a button, too. Couldn't be happier! Well, ok, if he slept through the night and could spout Shakespeare at birth, maybe I'd be a tad happier. But within the realm of the realistic, E and I are overjoyed!

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Here it is, my semiannual blog post. OK, maybe I post slightly more often than that. Emphasis on the "slightly." Oh well.It's also not like I had nothing to report, because I did. E and I are about to have our very first kid. So basically I've known this for over 8 months and didn't ever mention it here. Pro bloggers everywhere are disgusted.Before we got pregnant we were already throwing

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-2443757676263594362009-08-19T22:55:00.003-05:002009-08-19T23:03:26.873-05:00

I'm going to refrain from actually blogging about my own thoughts on the health care "reform" debate currently gripping the country because (a) that would take a long time, (b) no one wants to read a 57-page blog post, and (c) talking about the subject usually gets me so pissed that I can't get any work done, and right now I really really need to get work done.However, I read a fascinating

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-30442844057646101702009-08-15T22:34:00.004-05:002009-08-15T23:14:58.313-05:00

Today was the first day of the 2009/10 season in the English Premier League. For those of you who are uninitiated, that is the professional football (read: soccer) league in England. So like MLS in the United States, except it's more analogous to the NFL and NBA put together in terms of stature, following, success, etc. Explaining to my American friends reading this how professional football

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-59334843855085028392009-07-22T16:39:00.002-05:002009-07-22T17:14:55.633-05:00

I am the world's worst blogger. It's been over a year since my last post. I'm sure no one noticed, but still.What a year it has been though. I changed jobs -- my clerkship ended so I am now back at my old firm. We have a new president (more on this in upcoming posts). I now own a Wii and the greatest video game ever made, Rock Band. Michael Jackson died. Our cats were put on a diet because

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-7781680265187605342008-05-11T08:25:00.002-05:002008-05-11T08:48:11.164-05:00

Just saw 'Juno' for the first time last night on DVD. It had been hyped to an unbelievable degree by E and various friends and colleagues. I have to admit, it largely held up very well. It had been billed to me as an unexpectedly hilarious comedy. But what helped it meet or exceed expectations was that it is definitely not, in my opinion, a comedy.The highlights for 'Juno' for me were the

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So the top baby names of 2007 are in. Tops for boys were, in order: Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua, Daniel, Christopher, Anthony, William, Matthew and Andrew. For girls: Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava, Madison, Sophia, Olivia, Abigail, Hannah, Elizabeth. The list is a little skewed because alternative spellings are treated as separate names. For example, Jayden is the 18th most common boy's name

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-85045859389349194682008-04-28T09:40:00.003-05:002008-04-28T10:07:19.380-05:00

So lately I've been infatuated with BBC's miniseries, Planet Earth. If you haven't seen it, you are missing out. It is simply the greatest nature documentary ever made. HD-quality shots of absolutely stunning landscapes and exceedingly rare animals and their behavior. And make sure to get the original British version narrated by David Attenborough; the Discovery Channel adapted it for U.S.

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-50811331986067881082008-04-22T12:07:00.005-05:002008-04-22T13:03:08.630-05:00

Whew! Back to sanity. So after a long month of hectic-osity at work, I finally have some free time to breathe and sleep. And blog.One of the events of the past month was a work-related trip to Philadelphia, my old stomping ground. I took the opportunity to introduce my co-clerks to the greatness of Philly's restaurant scene and food in general.For the high-class, trendy, gourmet sector of the

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-48687435703493353332008-04-05T18:23:00.004-05:002008-04-05T18:32:29.335-05:00

So E and I are at a restaurant the other night when I hear the following conversation.Boy: Did Patton have a front row seat when he kicked the Nazis, um, in the butt?Man: Yeah. Germany has this river at the border, the Rhine. Do you know what Patton did when he crossed it?Boy: No.Man: Don't tell your mother I told you this. He stood on the bridge and pissed in it.Boy: What's that?Man:

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-25372854180404557222008-03-29T12:08:00.003-05:002008-03-29T12:40:09.612-05:00

So this will be a running feature of the blog, my and E's musings about the names of our future children. Current front runners:GIRLSClaraIsabelArianaBOYSGarrett (or Garret)ParkerDevonWe just recently started discussing 'Ariadne' instead of 'Ariana' -- we both think the name is pretty and unique, the two principal criteria for girl's names. The question is whether it would fit with our last name,

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-26496052542612718692008-03-28T09:03:00.002-05:002008-03-28T09:55:15.744-05:00

Many of you will remember the omnipresent 'Free Mumia!' campaign that gripped the country several years ago, particularly in Philadelphia. You may be interested to know that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit just affirmed the partial grant (and partial denial) of habeas relief. Presumably Mumia will file a fourth petition for certiorari, which presumably will also be denied. And

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-67432536843866742782008-03-24T13:59:00.006-05:002008-03-28T08:58:37.691-05:00

Back from a short hiatus scrambling to finish work before Easter weekend and then going to see the folks during Easter weekend. But in that time, March Madness has descended upon us.I haven't found the article--and I'll update if I do--but I heard on the radio today that well over a billion dollars are "lost" due to the NCAA tournament. That astounding figure is primarily attributable to lost

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-86647489690462826052008-03-19T16:54:00.002-05:002008-03-19T17:22:39.769-05:00

So E and I have been having the most dreaded talk in all of marriage . . . joint finances. We settled into unfortunately predictable roles. She wants to combine finances entirely. So all bank accounts in both names. All credit cards in both names. All bills in both names. All monogrammed underwear in both names. Okay, not that last one. And who says I have monogrammed underwear?Anyway,

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-84683646970007214822008-03-18T13:33:00.001-05:002008-03-18T13:34:51.728-05:00

I don't even need to explain why American gameshows need to move in this direction.

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-52159987083844457472008-03-18T09:12:00.002-05:002008-03-18T09:28:42.831-05:00

So my friends and I have been justifiably proud the past several years to have attended the University of Pennsylvania together with John Stephens, who now goes by the moniker John Legend. We even knew him in various tangential ways. Now that he's made it big, winning Grammys and recording under the wing of no less than Kanye West, Penn will no doubt list him as one of its favorite sons (

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-23741169354885603422008-03-17T16:35:00.004-05:002008-03-18T13:38:18.579-05:00

E and I are still living it up in DC. I'm in the homestretch of my clerkship, which ends in mid-August. At that point I'll likely return to my old law firm here in town and stay for at least 3-4 years. That is partly enforced by finances; E and I bought our first house last May, and we just can't afford to sell and move anytime soon. But we like DC a lot, too. Even Seattle-is-the-only-city-for-me

JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647572127851336581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6022125.post-56946550360702134402008-03-17T15:03:00.004-05:002008-03-17T16:24:22.709-05:00

Welcome to my brand new blog! Okay okay, it's not new. But I went so far as to delete all my prior posts to really make it new (besides, my wife probably would appreciate all the stuff I said while single not being out there). So as is common with first posts, this'll be long and autobiographical.About me. I am a late-20s Korean-American bloke who lives in the Washington, DC area. I am a lawyer

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