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  • Peasprout Chen

    Henry Lien’s new book is coming out. It is, disappointingly, not about Peasprout Chen. Instead it’s about how to tell stories (I think, pre-ordered but haven’t received it yet) and OMG he knows how to tell stories. The stories he tells are absolutely overpoweringly insane and incredibly multi-faceted. Here are some reviews that are funnier……

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  • Local news

    Must say, “radical offshoot of the Rationalist movement” was not something I ever expected to exist. I’m sure there’s a movie coming up.

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  • Aftel Archive of Curious Scent

    This weekend I’m doing almost nothing (by accident!), but last weekend I did two awesome and extremely overloading things. This is the first – I went to Aftel Archive of Curious Scent, a scent museum in Berkeley. It’s an outpouring of Mandy Aftel’s personal collection gathered over decades of making perfumes. She didn’t start out……

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