little veggie, Big Apple

Happy Trails

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:07:55 -0400

Or: upon leaving teaching.

As a teacher, I often found myself compelled to stop learning. Overwhelmed. Floundering. Forced to focus and compartmentalize. To survive. That lesson, PowerPoint or paragraph your teacher showed you against plagiarism?…

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New blog post (about a months’-old experience): Rockaway...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:25:08 -0400

New blog post (about a months’-old experience): Rockaway Records

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markdchou: The President’s Tailor | Mr Porter An interview with...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:30:06 -0500

markdchou:

The President’s Tailor | Mr Porter

An interview with Brooklyn’s Martin Greenfield. Planning on getting something from him one of these days… Good enough for Brooks Brothers, Band of Outsiders, Michael Jackson, Paul Newman, as well as three presidents? Good enough for me!

The name sounded familiar, so I looked up his location. His shop and factory are on the block neighboring my old school. Passed this place at least twice a day. Somehow, I must have missed the Presidents’ visits :)

Mamoun's Falafel, NYC

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:37:50 -0500

Short and sweet: as much fun as a vegetarian can have for less than $5.

Quick. Produce a pocket full of goodness. Cover it in mouth-melting hot sauce. Sell it for $3.00. Too much for you to handle? That’s okay, Mamoun’skind of already has that market…

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Note to self: go digital.

Sat, 05 May 2012 23:34:46 -0400

Note to self: go digital.

the City lurches to life

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:08:39 -0400

As the sun contemplates rising,

Emitting skirmisher rays.

Morning greys give way to blues,

Or else stormy middays.

A million eggs on a million rolls—digested.

Papers recount yesterday;

Collective sigh, inhaling the Present.

Deliveries loaded, circulated: clogging the arteries.

Throbbing, the engines beat on.

Nervous turn signals: impatient drivers’ only outlet.

A lively railcar, home to sleepy passengers.

The city lurches to life.

b______ houses a 16th floor apartment, iron-barred...

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:53:41 -0500

b______ houses

a 16th floor apartment, iron-barred windows;

“keep out”: unnecessary.

Keeping in, moreso.

what if someone figures out this project is going nowhere?

jumpers are bad for business,

and metal’s a dime-a-dozen.

Margins: met with help from the marginalized.

Coffins, high-rised—

stretching, distancing from an unfriendly terra firma.

adrift, at work

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:12:00 -0500

Inefficient brush w i t n grimy stoop

h e s

Each stroke unique;

the e f c uniform.

f e t

C e ns s air of NOISE.

l a e

Cloaked in a snuggling chill,

a City lay hide & seek.

p s

"Mr. Chitwood never gave up on me. I was an asshole to him, and he still kept helping me."

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:02:00 -0500

““Mr. Chitwood never gave up on me. I was an asshole to him, and he still kept helping me.””

- -student

Can’t imagine a better note for a Friday to end on. Bring on next week.

markdchou: Vintage WWII Military Sunglasses My friend Luke...

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:07:44 -0500

markdchou:

Vintage WWII Military Sunglasses

My friend Luke showed me these awesome sunglasses at brunch yesterday. These are his grandfather’s sunglasses from the days when he was a B-24 navigator during World War II. I’ll often post about military-inspired gear on this blog, but this pair of sunglasses is the real deal and still going strong some 60+ years later.

markdchou: The Time Machine A documentary short on Central...

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:27:01 -0500

markdchou:

The Time Machine

A documentary short on Central Watch in Grand Central Terminal, a watch repair / vintage watch store that has passed through 3 generations of the same family.

I’d heard about these guys quite a bit on watch forums, and finally dropped by earlier this week to see if I could get a couple of new springbars for my Seiko diver. They’re super nice, knowledgeable, and didn’t even charge me for the springbars. I’ll be back again!

The closing shot of this short (9:31 - 9:57) is beautiful, and so appropriate for the subject. Take a few minutes to watch!

this floor… Room & Response a comfortable room, but...

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:09:00 -0500

this floor…

Room & Response

a comfortable room, but with a note of chill. not a numbing or frigid cold. a sliding-in-socks, saturday morning, reconvening under covers type of chill. from bed to coffee to couch. blanketed. respites of warmth made cozier by a cool: nipping at the edges of comfort.

Room via dress design decor

New Year's Revolutions

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:40:04 -0500

1. French

2. American

3. The Glorious

4. The one which will not be televised (Gil Scott Heron)

5. Industrial

In a different particular order. These times, they [were] a changin’.

Photography and instantaneous velocity: two entirely real ideas;...

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:02:06 -0500

Photography and instantaneous velocity: two entirely real ideas; 2 practically nonexistent realities. A moment, frozen and preserved. Decontextualized and removed from earth. Like the points on a coordinate plane: absent and devoid of space. Matterless. Everywhere and ever-present. Basic concepts, known to be real. Defying reason. Completely tactile; the most abstract of all. Descriptive of all space and motion: as ungraspable as eternity.

Someday: writing in the Village. A corner of my loft will look...

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:02:07 -0500

Someday: writing in the Village. A corner of my loft will look like this. Come have coffee.

The extent of the ATL Airport’s vegetarian options. Deep...

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:15:32 -0500

The extent of the ATL Airport’s vegetarian options. Deep South, it appears we still don’t see eye-to-eye on everything.

markdchou: Photo Shoot at Chelsea Market Model / Styling / Hair / Makeup: Aileen MaPhotographer:...

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:54:23 -0500

markdchou:

Photo Shoot at Chelsea Market

Model / Styling / Hair / Makeup: Aileen Ma
Photographer: Mark Chou

Learn more about the clothes and accessories here.

20 questions

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:12:06 -0500

Kids ask questions. Incessantly. And it’s one of the best parts of my job. Enjoy:

Honorable mention (purely because of frequency): Can I go to the bathroom?

19. Do you like to party?

18. Why can’t we have 2 months off for Christmas?

17. If you cut a worm in half, can it still live?

16. Wait, why doesn’t my sperm look like that?

15. How do starfish regenerate? Can humans do that?

14. How can you sleep with your eyes open?

13. If your head was in a box filled with water, could you breathe through a straw in your neck?

12. Why hillbillys stupid?

11. Does Oklahoma have, like, lots of, what’re they called, strip malls?

10. What’s New York State?

9. Oklahoma—is that in California?

8. How old are you?

7. So you’re like the little fish and she’s the big fish?

6. Are you married?

5. Why are yawns contagious?

4. What are those little white guys in your blood that fight disease called?

3. So wait, there’s, like, Physics everywhere? In everything?

2. What should I eat to make my fart smell like chicken?

1. Hey mister, what’s your favorite…finger? Wait, that’s not what I meant to say…

Hum for the Holidays

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:43:35 -0500

Hum for the Holidays:

Sufjan & the National conspire (collaborate) for your listening pleasure. Basically, follow this link to pleasure yourself.

I may currently teach science, but I'm still a grammar nerd at heart.

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:58:02 -0500

No BS on this sale. Steeled toe and meets ALL requirements for any requirements. Top of the line…period. !!

It meets ALL requirements…exclamation mark.