Jimmy Chen
Dissecting the Pain That Crabs Feel
Recent studies have shown that crustacean neurology is similar to vertebrates, which points to a likewise experience of pain in human suffering. After watching my family hack at living crabs over the years, it's lead to a lot of internal conflicts.
My Mother Sent Me an NSFW Clip
The next morning she emailed me "IMG_0087.MOV," a humorous skit about a man on a tram that keeps suddenly stopping, causing him to repeatedly ram his face into the large-breasted woman seated across from him.
My Mother Does Not Believe Arugula Exists
No matter how many salads she's had with it, my mother always seems to forget exactly what this pedestrian salad green is. "Ohhh...I love this!" she says, every time upon this recurring discovery. Hell, who am I challenge her?
Fast Food Porn Is Packed with Sexual Latency
There’s something rather natural about seeing a weiner dutifully placed inside a tight warm bun.
Blind Eating the Blind by Dining in the Dark
At NYC's Opaque restaurant, restaurant patrons are guided through a $99 price fixe meal in complete darkness by blind or visually impaired servers.
I Got Shanghaied
I went to Shanghai with the idea that I might casually get laid. My loser low confidence—at bars, parties; any hook-up situation with which pensive celibates are obsessed—would finally be reprieved because I would be among "my people," or so my racist...
Zen and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance
On December 13, 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army stormed Nanking, the former capital of the Republic of China. In the six week period that followed, they killed an estimated 300,000 soldiers and civilians, including women and children, the latter in...
We Await Silent Thomas's Empire
Pynchon’s newest novel, The Bleeding Edge, comes out next week. Penguin released a teaser, which I skeptically read up to the point, a few paragraphs in, where a boy named Ziggy tells his mom that a tree "doesn't suck."