Dan Kim (김명준)

Another passel of new followers (who are all of you listening to my ramblings?), so a repeat of my rules: no racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, or religious bigotry. The Confederates were traitors who fought for slavery & deserve a punch. “Equality for all” in my bio means exactly that.

DSA needs to start living in the real world & finally realize that: 1) They aren’t nearly as strong or as popular as they believe. 2) The very voters they want to attract are repelled by their antisemitism. 3) Ideological purity tests are as about effective in a general election as a football bat.

Memorial booked. Photo board ordered. Ashes & death certificate will be ready for pickup in a few days. I still can’t fully believe I’m packing her things away for donation. I’m not in denial, but it’s a blender cup of the 5 stages: numbness, shock, grief, & accepting she’s actually, finally gone.

Bogyong Eun, 11 Oct 1948-21 Oct 2026, left suddenly, like a cold wind that gets in before you close the door. She loved being called Grandma. Malcolm in Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3, speaks for me. Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o’er-fraught heart & bids it break.

In reference to Miss Kim’s crush, I can neither confirm nor deny that I told her “shoot your shot,” to which she all but recoiled in terror & almost ran out of the restaurant. Otherwise, a great Appa-daughter date.

It will never not freak me out that my drives to & from work can involve driving *under* taxiways alpha & bravo, & occasionally going under a 737 or Airbus heading to 31R.

Chef: hey Dan, I’m making gravlax for the VIPs Me: looking forward to testing that with a bagel tomorrow

The GOP is the party of forcing assault victims to relive their trauma(s), especially if they’re women who dare to speak up against this patriarchal bullshit. Ok. Got it.

Siri, how do you send a 9-line to a UAS? Asking for roughly eleventy Western militaries’ medical branches. Seriously, though, this is potentially paradigm changing.

Cat Chronicles (the saga continues) A tale of 2 cats. Ruth: Appa, you made meatloaf? I, too, like meatloaf. Goodie: there’s got to be some good shit in the drain cover @drjchernov.bsky.social

I take it as a compliment that one of my people, a Navy veteran, calls me Chief. Not out of respect, though that surely does exist. No, it’s because he claims my coffee mug is welded to my hand most days until at least 1400. 💀

If I have to disavow anything or anyone, here goes: 1. Any Asian American or Native Pacific Islander (AANPI) who believes Trump and/or MAGA c/would ever include them. 1a. Any AANPI who voted Republican after 2008. 3. Delulu Koreans who want to re-establish the House of Yi & its Joseon Dynasty.

Today would be a good day to ask why Minnesota AG Ellison still hasn’t charged ICE agent Jonathan Ross for killing Renee Good, and/or agents Jesus Ochoa & Ray Gutierrez for the murder of Alex Pretti.

Re-upping this in light of our president’s full pivot to supporting Putin yesterday, & becoming a full-throated enemy of the EU. This isn’t treasonous, per se, but it sure as hell is traitorous.

Military leaders becoming amplifiers of obviously false politically-motivated messages is a norm breaking danger sign.

Happy 6th anniversary, @drjchernov.bsky.social ❤️ Omakase at Sushi 456 in the West Village.

So, was that half a Scaramucci? I can’t keep track of all these different units of measure.

#BreakingNews Longtime SVR asset & useful idiot for his good buddy Vladimir Vladimirovich parrots Russian propaganda at the behest of his handlers at the Lubyanka. Total # of people who are surprised: 0

I think I speak for many non-white children of immigrants when I say I’m really friggin tired of this trope. Hell, many of us are far more American than the “I would’ve served, but” MAGA faithful. They should be thanking us instead.

Maintainer: why are you so excited about getting the last white Monster? Me: because 4Loko and Rip-It are illegal Maintainer: say less

My brother in Christ, I can see you just fine without your high beams flashing to go faster, despite the traffic in front of me. The last time someone got that close to my ass, it was my proctologist. Postscript: this person found out the hard way that my superpower is to downshift unexpectedly 😈

Took this photo after I’d already cut half of it into slices, but not bad for a Trader Joe pizza crust. Topped it with mozzarella, Italian sausage, mushrooms, sautéed peppers, then grated a metric shit ton of Pecorino on top.

Cognitive dissonance (noun): what happens to your brain when one Russian barber, “Bill”/Volodya, waxes nostalgic about the lines for state-run stores before 1991, while “Mike”/Misha sings along in Russian to a horrible cover of Celine Dion’s “Power of Love.”

Apologies, I just saw the clip. I’m secure enough in my masculinity & my identity that I don’t feel any need to use language that demeans women, or fellow POC. All of this is to say, with my whole chest, fuck Shane Gillis, & I hope he winds up living in the shitty single-wide trailer he deserves.

Almost forgot. Happy “Italian explorer seeking to exploit India & Indians got lost & instead began the exploitation of the Western Hemisphere & enslavement of the Taíno people” day for all of you who celebrate.

I miss the halcyon days of anything between 1945 & 2016, & 2021-2025, when US presidents were the opposite of useful idiots doing the Kremlin’s bidding. I miss when presidents stood up to the Soviet Union & then Russia, because USSR/RF interests & values didn’t align with our country’s.

I’ve come to realize that I’m in a codependent relationship with my asshole roommate, aka the cat, or Goodie. I made salmon for dinner & ate most of it with the spray bottle within easy reach. But he was begging so insistently that I let him have the last few bites. Now he won’t let me pet him.

Today I discovered that God exists, & he likes me, b/c he led me to the mythical vending machine of energy drinks, which included 2 full rows of White Monster … conveniently & curiously located next to where aircraft maintainers clock in. As my mom would say, 살겟다 (I think I can survive now).

Mom looks good for 78. That’s her “I don’t care if you’re my only child, I will end you because I told you no servers singing happy birthday” face.

Update: instead of parallel parking, he wanted to learn how to drive my manual transmission car, so we played alternating games of “grind it til you find it,” “stall & block traffic,” and “over-rev the engine in 1st gear” while I wished I’d brought a flask.

If I were dictator for a day, my first edict would be to ban anyone under the age of 35, & over age 70, from Trader Joe’s while I’m there. People who cut the checkout line or have no spatial awareness w/ their cart will face lifetime banishment. I’d forgotten what a mad house it is on weekends.

Appointment confirmed for tomorrow. I’m going to teach Junior that most quintessential of NYC skills: parallel parking.

I miss the before times when cabinet secretaries were literate. e.g., the remarkably named Markwayne Mullin, whose parents apparently forgot the space bar, saying in today’s conference, “We wasn’t aware the child was in the car.”

Fuck Stephen A Smith for belittling Lane Johnson, a footballer who doesn’t have to prove shit to anyone regarding his toughness, for retiring so he can prioritize his mental health. And fuck ESPN for giving this loudmouth, among others, a daily show where he can spew his bullshit unfettered.

The current iteration of the Republican Party would have pepper sprayed, then detained in an overcrowded facility with no medical care or access to an attorney, the hippy rabbi from Galilee. Then they would have deported him.