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yama-bato · 2 years
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ARCHITECTURE BY HAND BY SPENCER FUNG
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https://www.andrewmontgomery.co.uk/
https://www.andrewmontgomery.co.uk/architecture-by-hand/
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byneddiedingo · 8 months
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Bette Davis in The Letter (William Wyler, 1940)
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, Bruce Lester, Elizabeth Inglis, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Sen Yung, Doris Lloyd, Willie Fung, Tetsu Komai. Screenplay: Howard Koch, based on a play by W. Somerset Maugham. Cinematography: Tony Gaudio. Art direction: Carl Jules Weyl. Film editing: George Amy, Warren Low. Music: Max Steiner.
As Tony Gaudio's camera travels across the Malayan rubber plantation we hear shots being fired, and as we track closer we see Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis), coming down her front steps with a grimly determined look on her face, firing the remaining bullets from her revolver into a man on the ground. And we sit back and relax and think, "Oh, yeah, Bette's here. This is gonna be good." Davis is one of the few stars who can almost always make us feel this way -- maybe Cary Grant or Barbara Stanwyck for me -- who else for you? And it is good, perhaps the best of the three films Davis made with William Wyler. For me, Jezebel (1938) is too steeped in the Hollywood Old South myth, and The Little Foxes (1941) too hamstrung by Lillian Hellman's dramaturgy. This one has a very fine screenplay by Howard Koch that deftly steps on and around the restrictions placed on it by the Production Code. For one thing, Leslie has to be punished for her crime, which involves not only murder but also, with the help of her lawyer, Howard Joyce (James Stephenson), suborning justice. (Joyce somehow gets off scot-free, though with an embittered conscience.) Wyler got a bad rap from the auteur critics like Andrew Sarris, who found his technical skills insufficiently personal. But we see something of Wyler's daring early in the film as Leslie is recounting her version of why she shot Geoffrey Hammond to her lawyer, her husband (Herbert Marshall), and a government official (Bruce Lester) who has been called to the scene. Wyler chooses to shoot a long segment of Leslie's story with the backs of Leslie and the three men to the camera: We don't see their faces, but only the room where the initial shooting took place. The effect, relying heavily on Davis's voice acting and Koch's script, is to place Leslie's narrative -- which as others comment rarely varies by a word -- in our minds instead of the truth. It is, for Davis, a splendidly icy and controlled performance. The major fault in the film today is in the condescension toward Asian characters typical of Hollywood in the era, though it's not as bad perhaps in 1940 as it would be after Pearl Harbor a year later. We learn that Hammond had a Eurasian wife (the Code-enforced substitute for the Chinese mistress of W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 play), and in 1940s Hollywood "Eurasian" invariable meant "sinister," especially when she's played by Gale Sondergaard. The other Asians in the film are treated as subordinates, including Joyce's Chinese law clerk, Ong Chi Seng (Victor Sen Yung), who is all smiles and passive aggressiveness. That we are expected to share in this colonialist order of things is especially apparent when Leslie is forced to deliver the payment for the incriminating letter to Mrs. Hammond, who lords it over Leslie, making her remove her shawl to bare her head and to place the money in her hands; then Mrs. Hammond drops the letter on the floor, making Leslie pick it up. If today we cheer at Mrs. Hammond's abasement of Leslie, who after all killed her husband, you can bet that 1940s audiences, or at least the white ones, didn't.
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kojiandrew · 2 years
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Andrew Koji having Korean BBQ with Jung Jin Park & Hyun Joo Hoon in South Korea (May 26th, 2022)
Jung Jin Park is a stuntman and you can also see him as a member of the Fung Hai in Warrior, and it looks like Koji has gone back to start training and gearing up for season 3 of Warrior 😀
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lindalung · 10 months
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Meet the Lungs: TVB’s Very Own Roy Family
I’m not sure how many people watch both Succession and Come Home Love: Lo and Behold, but I wanted to write about the similarities between the Roy family and the Lung family on the respective shows. In fact, I’ve made 4 parody trailers featuring clips from Lo and Behold paired with the audio from Succession trailers, and they fit pretty damn well. (See below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVCL2G43zbk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDacsg3rnGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_brbg6kLDu4&ab_channel=lotuspond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMFx2EFAccI&ab_channel=lotuspond
At first glance, it is pretty easy to spot the striking similarities between the two families. The Roys have Waystar Royco, the fictional American media conglomerate powerhouse, while the Lungs have Zip Lung, a company that started out as the Wai Lung Department Store, and now has ventures in practically every industry. Both companies are spearheaded by the paternal figure, Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and Lung Kam Wai (Law Lok Lam) respectively. Even their family names are meant to reflect power — Roy, deriving from “Roi” meaning “King”, and Lung, meaning Dragon, the symbol of imperial power in Chinese culture.
While the Roy children and the Lung children aren’t exact equivalents of each other in terms of birth order, the core three (if you don’t count the Connor Roy (Alan Ruck), who has a different mother than the other Roy kids)— Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Siobhan aka “Shiv”  (Sarah Snook) can be compared to Max (Hoffman Cheng), King Fung aka “Fung Siu” (Andrew Chan), and Linda (Mandy Lam). There is also the difference wherein the Lung siblings have different mothers, and therefore come from competing “Chambers”, but the comparison still stands nonetheless. They also have similar characteristics as the narcissistic and power-hungry son who desperately wants to inherit his father’s position at the company, but in reality, lacks the skill underneath. Roman may not actually be the youngest sibling, but he exudes the energy of the youngest child. He is the comedic relief with a lack of interest in taking over the company compared to the other siblings, and is actually suffering beneath the jokes and happy go lucky attitude, just like Fung Siu. Lastly, although Shiv isn’t the eldest daughter like Linda, being a woman with great leadership qualities yet the only daughter in the men’s business makes them both targets of misogyny. Both fathers also have a history of treating their wives (plural) and women in their lives poorly. Though Linda has a younger sister Vivian (Katherine Ho), she’s both written out of the show and was never interested in the family business. All three children in both shows crave their father’s approval and validation more than anything, due to the lack of love received from him growing up. In both cases, their father loved the company more than they loved them, which is why they want to become CEO so badly.
(Side note: I’ve written about Linda and her father’s relationship previously https://medium.com/@doneforme/daddy-issues-face-and-filial-piety-in-come-home-love-lo-and-behold-42014bbaeaf ).
Shiv and Logan’s relationship reminds me of Linda and her dad, though perhaps there is more genuine love between the latter due to the nature of the sitcom. Still, every time I watch a scene in Succession where Shiv feels powerless as she seeks attention from her dad, or gets ignored or belittled as the only woman in the room, I can’t help but be reminded of Linda. Both Shiv and Linda have to fight their way to the top, to prove that they are just as, if not more capable than their brothers. Linda and her husband Sung Shui Fai (Jack Hui) aren’t exactly the “fail marriage” trope like Shiv and Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfayden), but there are still some similarities especially early on in the relationship. Tom and Fai both come from lower status backgrounds, and marry into a powerful and rich family, where their wives have more success than them (at least in the beginning for Tom). Both men are frequently seen as accessories of their wives rather than their own person. Fai dips into his darker side briefly, but ultimately Fai and Linda’s genuine love is far less toxic than what Tom and Shiv have going on. Fai would do anything for approval from Linda’s father, but his goal is to be accepted into the family so he can marry Linda, not so he can gain the position of CEO. On the other hand, Shiv had a career in politics and initially didn’t want to get into the family business, whereas Linda was vying for a leading position at Zip Lung since birth. In the final season, Shiv also feels trapped in her unexpected role as a mother, something that she did not ask for. There, Shiv being reduced to a daughter, a wife, and now a mother, is the show’s way of showcasing the misogyny against her. The lighthearted sitcom is different, portraying Linda as a caring and willing stepmother to Fai’s young son Philip (Dylan Leung).
Succession asks the question of whether the cycle of generational trauma and toxicity can be broken. Even after Logan’s death, the siblings are still haunted by his looming presence, afraid that he’s still upset with them for every move they make. They’re so afraid of becoming their father, whether as a leader or as a parent. In the end of Succession, Tom becomes CEO of Waystar, and Shiv is merely the one next to him. Linda always assumes that her chances of being successor to Zip Lung are slim due to her gender, because her father has always favoured sons over daughters. While Lo and Behold hasn’t reached that point in the storyline (yet), there’s no telling what may happen to the future of Zip Lung. Fai may be the Head of the Restaurants department, but I could not see him leading Zip Lung. Of course, there is no telling what will happen and I guess we will have to wait and see…
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jcmarchi · 24 days
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School of Science announces 2024 Infinite Expansion Awards
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School of Science announces 2024 Infinite Expansion Awards
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The MIT School of Science has announced nine postdocs and research scientists as recipients of the 2024 Infinite Expansion Award, which highlights extraordinary members of the MIT community.
The following are the 2024 School of Science Infinite Expansion winners:
Sarthak Chandra, a research scientist in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, was nominated by Professor Ila Fiete, who wrote, “He has expanded the research abilities of my group by being a versatile and brilliant scientist, by drawing connections with a different area that he was an expert in from his PhD training, and by being a highly involved and caring mentor.”  
Michal Fux, a research scientist in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, was nominated by Professor Pawan Sinha, who wrote, “She is one of those figurative beams of light that not only brilliantly illuminate scientific questions, but also enliven a research team.”  
Andrew Savinov, a postdoc in the Department of Biology, was nominated by Associate Professor Gene-Wei Li, who wrote, “Andrew is an extraordinarily creative and accomplished biophysicist, as well as an outstanding contributor to the broader MIT community.”  
Ho Fung Cheng, a postdoc in the Department of Chemistry, was nominated by Professor Jeremiah Johnson, who wrote, “His impact on research and our departmental community during his time at MIT has been outstanding, and I believe that he will be a worldclass teacher and research group leader in his independent career next year.”  
Gabi Wenzel, a postdoc in the Department of Chemistry, was nominated by Assistant Professor Brett McGuire, who wrote, “In the one year since Gabi joined our team, she has become an indispensable leader, demonstrating exceptional skill, innovation, and dedication in our challenging research environment.”  
Yu-An Zhang, a postdoc in the Department of Chemistry, was nominated by Professor Alison Wendlandt, who wrote, “He is a creative, deep-thinking scientist and a superb organic chemist. But above all, he is an off-scale mentor and a cherished coworker.”  
Wouter Van de Pontseele, a senior postdoc in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, was nominated by Professor Joseph Formaggio, who wrote, “He is a talented scientist with an intense creativity, scholarship, and student mentorship record. In the time he has been with my group, he has led multiple facets of my experimental program and has been a wonderful citizen of the MIT community.”  
Alexander Shvonski, a lecturer in the Department of Physics, was nominated by Assistant Professor Andrew Vanderburg, who wrote, “… I have been blown away by Alex’s knowledge of education research and best practices, his skills as a teacher and course content designer, and I have been extremely grateful for his assistance.”  
David Stoppel, a research scientist in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, was nominated by Professor Mark Bear and his research group, who wrote, “As impressive as his research achievements might be, David’s most genuine qualification for this award is his incredible commitment to mentorship and the dissemination of knowledge.”
Winners are honored with a monetary award and will be celebrated with family, friends, and nominators at a later date, along with recipients of the Infinite Mile Award.
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hayingsang · 1 month
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What I read in 2022
A little late. 2023 to follow soon.
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Ying Shih Yü, Chinese History and Culture, Volume 1
Yuen Yuen Ang, China’s Gilded Age
Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women
Stephan Körner, Kant
Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts, Vol 5
Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky, Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
Frank Dikotter, Mao’s Great Famine
Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts, Vol 6
George Orwell, 動物農莊(港豬版)
Tom Hopkins, Sales Prospecting for Dummies
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Paul Gilroy, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack
Kenn Amdahl, There Are No Electrons
Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State
Ehrhard Bahr & Ruth Goldschmidt Kunzer, Georg Lukacs
Gianfranco Poggi, Forms of Power
Thomas Gordon, Parental Effectiveness Training
Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
James Fok, Financial Cold War
Angela Carter, The New Eve
Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton
Ying Shih Yü, Chinese History and Culture, Volume 2
Bill Hayton, The Invention of China
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind
林匡正, 香港足球史
Karl Ulrich & Lele Sang, Winning in China
Harry Morgan, Sunny Places for Shady People
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle
Naomi Standen (ed), Demystifying China
Angela Carter, Wise Children
Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys
John Gribbin, Get a Grip on Physics
Chris Waring, An Equation for Every Occasion
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
Mary McCarthy, Birds of America
Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps
Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
Hon Lai-chiu, The Kite Family
Jim Breithaupt, Physics
John Gribbin, Seven Pillars of Science
John Gribbin, Six Impossible Things
Barry Lopez, Horizon
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kittridge
Elizabeth Strout, Anything is Possible
Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
Mike Goldsmith, Waves
Monica Ali, Untold Story
Catherine Merridale, Ivan’s War
Jessica Andrews, Saltwater
Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
AM Homes, May We Be Forgiven
Gaia Vince, Adventures in the Anthropocene
Ho-fung Hung, City on the Edge
Richard Feynman, QED
Fredric Raichlen, Waves
Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
Karen Cheung, The Impossible City
Adam Tooze, The Deluge
Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
Sean Carroll, The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
Louisa Lim, The Indelible City
Gavin Pretor-Pinney, The Wave Watcher’s Companion
Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction
Adam Tooze, Shutdown
Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman
Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
Virgina Woolf, The Waves
Ursula Le Guin, Tehanu
Ursula Le Guin, The Telling
Gaia Vince, Nomad Century
Janna Levin, How the Universe Got Its Spots
Lara Alcock, Mathematics Rebooted
Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems
Emily St John Mandel, The Glass Hotel
Anon, 伊索傳 & 驢仔
Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky
Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven
Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
Bruno Mansoulié, All Of Physics (Almost) In 15 Equations
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reginadeinisseni · 5 months
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Eros 2004
TONINO GUERRA
Eros (segmento Il filo pericoloso delle cose) di Michelangelo Antonioni (2004)
Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-wai Produttore Stéphane Tchalgadjieff, Domenico Procacci, Marcantonio Borghese Fotografia Marco Pontecorvo, Peter Andrews, Christopher Doyle Montaggio Claudio Di Mauro Effetti speciali Daniel Acon, David Bush Musiche Enrica Antonioni, Vinicio Milani Costumi Carin Berger Trucco Carla Vicenzino Art director Stefano Luci Interpreti e personaggi Il filo pericoloso delle cose Christopher Buchholz: Christopher Regina Nemni: Cloe Luisa Ranieri: Linda Equilibrium
Robert Downey Jr.: Nick Penrose Alan Arkin: Dr. Pearl/Hal Ele Keats: La donna/Cecelia La mano
Chang Chen: Xiao Zhang Gong Li: Miss Hua Yibao Lee Kar Fai: sarto Zhou Jianjun: Zhao Auntie Luk: Ying Tin Fung: Master Jin Doppiatori italiani Equilibrium Vittorio Guerrieri: Nick Penrose Manlio De Angelis: Dr. Pearl/Hal Roberta Pellini: La donna/Cecilia La mano
Fabio Boccanera: Xiao Zhang Francesca Fiorentini: Miss Hua Yibao Pasquale Anselmo: Zhao Graziella Polesinanti: Ying Dante Biagioni: Master Jin Episodi Il filo pericoloso delle cose Equilibrium La mano
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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6 / 10
Título Original:  Revenge of the Green Dragons
Año: 2014
Duración: 94 min.
País:  Estados Unidos
Dirección: Andrew Lau, Andrew Loo
Guion: Michael Di Jiacomo, Andrew Loo
Música: Mark Kilian
Fotografía: Martin Ahlgren
Reparto: Justin Chon, Kevin Wu, Harry Shum Jr., Ray Liotta, Billy Magnussen, Eugenia Yuan, Jin Auyeung, Shuya Chang, Carl Li, Leonard Wu, Jo Mei, Jon Kit Lee, Alex Fox, Michael Gregory Fung, Celia Au, Ron Yuan, Geoff Pierson, Shing Ka, Carlos Long, Linda Wang, Huang Shang-Ho, Nick Sullivan, Si Han Wang, Tak Wah Eng, Phil Nee, Nahanni Johnstone, Joe Starr, Richard Lam, Manny Siverio, Alan Zhang, Jung Ling, Geoff Lee, Lil Rhee, Joanna Choy, Jim Ford, Hudson Cooper, Joanna Adler, Lauren Schaffel, Richard Dennis Holland, Alysia Reiner, Tracy Tsang, Fala Chen, Cliff Moylan, Michelle Guo, Marco Palou, Victor Fang, Carlos Tin-Cheung Koo
Productora: Coproducción Estados Unidos-Hong Kong; Artfire Films, Initial A Entertainment, IM Global, The 7th Floor. Productor: Martin Scorsese
Género: Action; Crime; Drama
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1396523/
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byneddiedingo · 2 years
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The Letter (William Wyler, 1940)
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, Bruce Lester, Elizabeth Inglis, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Sen Yung, Doris Lloyd, Willie Fung, Tetsu Komai. Screenplay: Howard Koch, based on a play by W. Somerset Maugham. Cinematography: Tony Gaudio. Art direction: Carl Jules Weyl. Film editing: George Amy, Warren Low. Music: Max Steiner.
As Tony Gaudio's camera travels across the Malayan rubber plantation we hear shots being fired, and as we track closer we see Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis), coming down her front steps with a grimly determined look on her face, firing the remaining bullets from her revolver into a man on the ground. And we sit back and relax and think, "Oh, yeah, Bette's here. This is gonna be good." Davis is one of the few stars who can almost always make us feel this way -- maybe Cary Grant or Barbara Stanwyck for me -- who else for you? And it is good, perhaps the best of the three films Davis made with William Wyler. For me, Jezebel (1938) is too steeped in the Hollywood Old South myth, and The Little Foxes (1941) too hamstrung by Lillian Hellman's dramaturgy. This one has a very fine screenplay by Howard Koch that deftly steps on and around the restrictions placed on it by the Production Code. For one thing, Leslie has to be punished for her crime, which involves not only murder but also, with the help of her lawyer, Howard Joyce (James Stephenson), suborning justice. (Joyce somehow gets off scot-free, though with an embittered conscience.) Wyler got a bad rap from the auteur critics like Andrew Sarris, who found his technical skills insufficiently personal. But we see something of Wyler's daring early in the film as Leslie is recounting her version of why she shot Geoffrey Hammond to her lawyer, her husband (Herbert Marshall), and a government official (Bruce Lester) who has been called to the scene. Wyler chooses to shoot a long segment of Leslie's story with the backs of Leslie and the three men to the camera: We don't see their faces, but only the room where the initial shooting took place. The effect, relying heavily on Davis's voice acting and Koch's script, is to place Leslie's narrative -- which as others comment rarely varies by a word -- in our minds instead of the truth. It is, for Davis, a splendidly icy and controlled performance. The major fault in the film today is in the condescension toward Asian characters typical of Hollywood in the era, though it's not as bad perhaps in 1940 as it would be after Pearl Harbor a year later. We learn that Hammond had a Eurasian wife (the Code-enforced substitute for the Chinese mistress of W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 play), and in 1940s Hollywood "Eurasian" invariable meant "sinister," especially when she's played by Gale Sondergaard. The other Asians in the film are treated as subordinates, including Joyce's Chinese law clerk, Ong Chi Seng (Victor Sen Yung), who is all smiles and passive aggressiveness. That we are expected to share in this colonialist order of things is especially apparent when Leslie is forced to deliver the payment for the incriminating letter to Mrs. Hammond, who lords it over Leslie, making her remove her shawl to bare her head and to place the money in her hands; then Mrs. Hammond drops the letter on the floor, making Leslie pick it up. If today we cheer at Mrs. Hammond's abasement of Leslie, who after all killed her husband, you can bet that 1940s audiences didn't.
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dominousworld · 1 year
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La richiesta della Russia all’India di aumentare le esportazioni di 5 volte è strategicamente significativa
di Andrew Korybko La Russia non si sta “sganciando” dalla Cina, ma si sta attivamente diversificando da essa con l’intento di scongiurare in modo duraturo lo scenario di una dipendenza potenzialmente sproporzionata dalla Repubblica Popolare, prima compensata dal fatto che l’India funge da valvola alternativa della Russia rispetto alle pressioni occidentali. L’espansione completa della…
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archivistariel · 4 years
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I'm A Fan of BIFAN: Part 2
I’m A Fan of BIFAN: Part 2
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Friendly Interactions & the Comfort of the BIFAN Community
I generally travel solo. Sometimes other people are too wishy-washy about attending events or committing to things and at some point I just decided that I would make sure that I never missed the things that I wanted to go to. No shade on anyone else, it’s a me thing. Traipsing around on my own? It’s what I did in LA. But Los Angeles has…
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