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5 Things Covid Should Have Brought Back (But Didn’t)
The 2020 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic provided so many opportunities for style shifts. And by that I mean we had the chance to recreate the 50’s, and we didn’t. It’s hard not to idealize the Boomers’ heyday. From the death of tailored style to the decline of affordable domestic help and florists, we’ve lost a lot of…
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7 Questions, 1 Very Bad Year
Since literally nothing is happening this year, writing, blogging, and documenting in general has been difficult. In this unprecedentedly dull time, creators are challenged to reach deep, deep into that top hat just to pull out a fluff of rabbit hair, let alone a whole mammal. So I’ve turned to the New York Times for…
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What’s the Hardest Chinese Character to Write?
Everyone’s gonna tell you it’s biáng, but it’s not. Biáng is easy to write, actually, because it’s constructed purely of radicals, and commonly used ones at that. All you have to do is add together: 穴月幺長言馬幺長刂心辶. Easy as pie! (Especially if you know the poem) But this isn’t the hardest character. Let’s go through the…
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