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#1 coffee
"If you want to go for extra points -
white people really love FAIR TRADE coffee,
because paying the extra $2 means they are
making a difference."
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#2 Religions that their parents don’t belong
to
"Mostly they are into religion that
fits really well into their homes or wardrobe
and doesn’t require them to do very
much."
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#3 film festivals
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#4 Assists
Sorry, totally missed me on this one
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#5 farmers markets
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#6 organic food
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#7 diversity
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#8 barack obama
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#9 Making you feel bad about not going
outside
at first i was going to put a picture of my
mom here because she always nagged us to go
outside instead of playing video games. and
now i realize that i'm the one nagging my
WoW-playing friends that "today is a
perfect day for a motorcycle ride!"
i am my mother :)
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#10 Wes Anderson movies
the exception that proves the rule. sorry,
i didn't get my film snob merit badge in the
whitey scouts :)
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#11 asian girls
even tho i'm gay...
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#12 non profit organizations
this one hit especially close to home :)
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#13 tea
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#14 Having Black Friends
actually... none the i hang out with
regularly. and making out with boys on the
back porch of the eagle prolly doesn't count
:)
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#15 yoga
i was really into www.fuckyoga.com if that counts
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#16 gifted children
don't have a kid but i was one of the
gifted. i was in the GTY ("Gifted and
Talented Youth") program at Fircrest in
Vancouver. my mom found out that john nold (a
neighbor and my best friend) was in the
gifted program and insisted that they put me
into it because i "was way smarter than
john!" personally i think john's mom got
him into it because it meant he spent an
extra two hours at school twice a week :)
the OMSI award i mention in the solar
picture was part of that program
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#17 hating their parents
jesus which ones, i have 4 parents. plus my
adopted chinese mother from china court, my
german mom, my drag mom, my jewish mom... but
i digress... yeah, sure i hated them at some
points in my teens... reading the story i was
definitely in the "hate them cuz they
were too strict with me" camp... but
thank god all that shit's behind us and we're
friends now ;)
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#18 awareness
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#19 travelling
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#20 Being an expert on YOUR culture
this one actually cut like a knife.
"One way they can make up for it is
becoming marginally acquainted with foreign
cultures. It is generally acceptable for a
white person to learn a few terms in a
language spoken primary by non-whites (such
as Chinese, Tagalog or Portuguese). They can
then use these phrases to order certain ‘more
authentic’ dishes in restaurants."
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#21 writers workshops
ok i managed to skip this one mostly, but i
have saved copies of old blog entries that
definitely fall into the "No matter what
they tell you, all of them have at least one
chapter of a novel stashed away
somewhere." category :)
do photography workshops count? if so, then
i'm totally in....
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#22 having two last names
when we were talking about breeding, the
kid was totally going to have two last
names...
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#23 microbreweries
i'm from the northwest. though we invented
neither, we're still the ones who gave the
rest of the american heathens espresso and
decent beer.
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#24 wine
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#25 david sedaris
another missing merit badge :)
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#26 manhattan
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#27 marathons
see yoga above :)
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#28 not having a tv
not even close!
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#29 80s night
i don't want this to be true, but the
obscene amount of 80s vinyl i still own
completely betrays me...
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#30 wrigley field
well, dave likes it so much he moved next
to it...
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#31 snowboarding
totally screwed my knee trying. :(
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vegan/vegetarianism
tho i'm now a baco-tarian, i was vegan for
6 months back in my 20s. if for no other
reason than to harass sanctimonious
vegetarian friends, "oh my GOD! you eat
eggs? how savage..."
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#33 marijuana
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#34 architecture
the writer outdid themselves on this one --
i about DIED reading it :)
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#35 The Daily Show/Colbert Report
no pix of my tivo main screen, but yeah,
totally
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#36 breakfast places
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#37 renovations
well, we do live in a 1905 victorian :)
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#38 arrested development
yep :) i was so fucking in love with jason
bateman when he was on silver spoons!
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#39 netflix
netflix always seemed like an idea that was
behind its time the day it launched...
and bitching about your slow netflix queue
is second only to complaining about how your
crafts aren't selling on etsy as the number
one "overheard in san francisco"
conversation
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#40 apple products
um... even before kel went to work there we
were apple poster children :)
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#41 indie music
tho i'm not ashamed about loving my aging
candy raver break beats at love parade :)
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#42 sushi
they have a roll named after me at
warakubune. 'nuf said.
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#43 plays
long as it involves drag queens or
shakespeare, i'm in
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#44 public radio
when i used to work at city carshare, the
old fleet manager would reset each car's
radio presets to NPR when they visited the
cars for inspection and cleaning. i'd always
make sure to change them back to heavy metal
or rrrrrradio rrrrrrromantica whenever i
drove :P ... i'm not a big fan of NPR, but
i'm a huge fan of SNL's delicious dish
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#45 asian fusion
hell i even took a class...
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#46 sunday new york times
the scene he describes is exactly my sunday
morning for most of the 8 years erik p and i
were together. we were always listening to
stan getz with the paper strewn all over the
floor and a french press sitting on the
coffee table.
i sorta abandoned that tradition when he
and i broke up. now we're most likely mopping
up booze with sparky's chili cheese fries :)
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#47 arts degrees
"It is important to note that a high
percentage of white people also get degrees
in Political Science, which is pretty much
like arts, and only seems to have the word
“science” in it to make white people feel
better about themselves."
yeah, PoliSci major here :) double-major in
German :P
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#48 Whole Foods and Grocery Co-ops
you get the co-op card for free when you go
vegan :)
but man it's easy to blow fat wads of cash
on meat at WF...
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#49 vintage
bikes, shoes, my old trs-80 color computer,
you name it...
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#50 irony
i hear randella in my head.... sometime
back in like 2001 he asked me, "when is
irony finally going out of fashion?"
not until the last trucker hat is retired,
70s sun visor burned, and BustedTees closes
its doors.
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#51 living by the water
sitting in that rooftop hottub looking at
the ocean, the thought seriously crossed our
minds about buying a place in that building
:)
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#52 sarah silverman
tried watching it. just mostly wanna slap
the bitch. sorry.
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#53 dogs
i like pets that pay rent, walk themselves,
and don't need me to pick up their poop
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Top Ten Hip Hop Songs White People Love
half of these are in my itunes library
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#54 kitchen gadgets
sweet jesus am i guilty on this one!
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#55 apologies
well considering i'm huge on #20, this
person has never been to japan (#58). when i
was taking japanese classes, chapter fucking
TWO was apologizing!
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#56 lawyers
not a big fan, tho my legal bill last year
was $14,000. oh, and armchair lawyers make me
stabby.
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#57 juno
looks funny. prolly won't see it. my own
goddammed life is an epic adoption drama, i
don't need to pay to watch hollywood's idea
of what my life is like.
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#58 japan
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#59 alternative medicine
please especially note the final paragraph,
"Note: it’s weird that there are some
white people who won’t take aspirin, but will
take Ecstasy, Cocaine, Xanax and
Vicodin."
yeah. i've had my pancha karma adjusted in
an ayurvedic sweat lodge while drinking
stinky tea. i've drunk charred earthworm tea,
magic japanese mineral concentrate,
umeshobancha, echinacea, you name it.
but despite that i think that
pharmaceuticals and western medicine are
awesome. if it won't work in a controlled
double-blind test then i just consider it
"entertainment" like i would a call
to the miss cleo psychic hotline.
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#60 toyota prius
this is the california pace car, isn't it?
and with my company, we up the smugness and piety factor yet
again because the prius is shared :)
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#61 bicycles
card-carrying member of the sfbc. i fell in
love with my husband at a velodrome. i've
tandemed with him across paris. ridden behind
the tour de france. rode the millennium
critical mass thru san francisco. bikes rule.
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#62 knowing what's best for poor people
i've been poor. don't care to repeat it.
about the only lecturing i do is when friends
ask me for money for like the 8th time i
usually buy them a copy of "your money
or your life" and tell them to find
their money somewhere else :)
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#63 expensive sandwiches
and how!
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I hate you.
For ensuring that most of my Friday will be
spent reading that damn blog.
=)
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yeah, i spend most of wednesday night lost in
it :)
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LOL @ the Roger Taylor shirt.
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#91 san francisco
um, my entire photostrem :)
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#90 dinner parties
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#89 st pattys day
we went to it in ireland :P
and yes, i really honestly have said
"you know, guiness doesn't travel"
ouch.
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# 88 gay friends
ok we're already gay, but we sometime
"brag" about "oh, yeah, i
don't really have that many gay
friends..."
and you know, a gay friend once said to me
"san francisco has the best straight
people in the world. the gay people....
meh" and it's kinda true :)
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#87 outdoor performance clothes...
kelly has a separate line-item on our
homeowners insurance for all of the clothing
he's purchased from Colorado Cyclist
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#86 shorts
some days we can almost pretend we've got
LA's weather...
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#85 the wire
right about now if it's not battlestar
galactica i don't care about it!
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#84 tshirts
for a while we were actually all making our
own in illustrator and inkjet
iron-transferring them to American Apparel
shirts. why? because we wanted to have
one-of-a-kind shirts. yeah.
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#83 bad memories of high school
well, growing up gay in vantucky (and OUT my senior year) i'm
"claiming" the right to hate HS :)
but with my 20 year reunion approaching,
i'm actually considering going just for fun
and maybe just a little bit to prove to
myself that i'm over it all :)
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#82 hating corporations
don't know who busted out their windows,
but considering that zipcar was trying to
crush several of my favorite non-profits, i
have to say i didn't shed to big a' tear when
i saw this.
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#81 graduate school
every time i leave a job i always
contemplate going back to school -- masters
in chemistry? masters in spanish? nah... so
far i've just pussed out and taken some
extension classes.
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#80 the idea of soccer
sorry, the gay thing seems to override all
of that. soccer is as douchey as every other
sport. except cycling :P
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#79 modern furntiture
i even have the eames design coffee table
book in my coffee table :) and the vitra
chair poster on my wall :P
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#78 multilingual children
for a while there kel and i were talking
about breeding and there was NO QUESTION in
our minds that the child was going to be
raised bilingual -- either spanish or
japanese or ?? depending on the ethnicity of
the donor. doesn't matter than the only
languages kelly and i speak are english,
german, objective-C, PHP, java, and C :)
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#77 musical comedy
trannyshack, how we love thee!
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#76 bottles of water
while i tend to prefer liquor to H2O, i did
attend the UN world water day conference
where alice waters gave a talk about the
evils of bottled water and how her restaurant
was getting rid of it...
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#75 threatening to move to canada
i hate bush as much as the next
californian, but i'm more of a fighter than a
runner. i have, however, threatened to move
to canada to secure a reliable supply of
these:
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#74 oscar parties
i live in the castro. the entire
neighborhood is practically deserted during
the oscars, aka "The Gay Superbowl"
i'm *still* pissed about The Color Purple
getting the shaft.
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#73 gentrification
we gays practically invented it.
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#72 foreign study
yep. did my junior year of college in
germany :) and yes, i still bitch about how i
can't get good laugenbrot in the states!
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#71 being the only white person in the room
goes double for being the only american (of
any race) in the room when i'm traveling
abroad.
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#70 difficult breakups
eight years. from age 18-26. and yeah, it
took me forfuckingever to get over it all the
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