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Chris Reads

Wasted Youth

I’m a sentimental person. Perhaps that’s what draws me to writing; I can only tell the same story to my friends so many times before they…

2d ago

2d ago

Before Thirty

Jeremey sat on the S7 towards the airport. He had a friend who once said that planes were such a romantic form of transportation, but for…

Mar 27

Mar 27

No New Friends Pt. 3: Actually, I want to make a few new friends

Does anyone have truly novel ideas? Or do they just recycle old blog posts with a bit of a clean-up? I pose this question in the age of…

Mar 20

Mar 20

The rise of the pluri-state and the loaded meaning of nation

It seems that immigration is currently a hot political issue: the H1Bs, the US border, and Indian international students. Yet, within a…

Mar 13

Mar 13

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Benjamin was a curious child. He was born at 41 weeks on the second of January, at nearly nine pounds according to the hospital records…

Mar 7

Mar 7

A Higher Power

“Power good”

Feb 28

Feb 28

Chekhov’s Gun: flattering the viewer versus subverting expectations

Russian playwright Anton Chekhov was quoted as saying “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it…

Feb 20

Feb 20

The charms of early Fitzgerald

A month ago, a friend of mine asked me which book or film character I associated myself the most with. What a question! I told them that I…

Feb 14

Feb 14

Mirror

There is a Chinese idiom, 门当户对, that literally means “doorframes of equal heights”. The expression means that for a good romantic…

Feb 7

Feb 7

Rawdog

Jeremey was sitting in 38K on hour ten of a fourteen-hour flight to Sydney. His eUpgrade didn’t go through the one time it really mattered…

Jan 30

Jan 30

Chris Reads

Chris Reads

Asian American, Canadian, and Chinese, living in China. Drop a comment about anything. I don’t have an anonymized SM account to share, but we’ll figure it out.

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