Jee Bijan
Jee Bijan
Recent Stories
Beer paradise serves bland, dry meat
I once dreamt I was on an island. And on that island was a bar with a magic tap that would dispense any beer I could think of: lagers, pilsners, pale ales, IPA’s, brown ales, amber ales, Abigails, porters, wheat beers, Japanese beers, beers that do your homework, beers that hold your hand while crossing icy streets, and stouts.
Feb Club: An All Star looks back
Most Yalies would agree that February is far and away the lousiest month of the year.
Our polyester future awaits us in our Plexi-crystal dome
Lately there’s been a lot of hating on plastic, especially in all that recent fuss about the danger of plastic bottles. Just as supple polymers continue to reify male desire in breasts and lips, men now face the threat of rising estrogen levels wrought by the same chemical compounds that once fulfilled sexual fantasies.
Bijan: Hot/Not
NOT: Frumpy Vegetarianism (AKA Claire’s Corner Copia) Vegetarianism has come a long way since when it was mostly a lifestyle reserved for those who listened to Ani DiFranco. Claire’s Corner Copia, however, clings to hemp as if it were gold in a recession. The overall ambiance is one of a judgmental, iron-deprived vegetarian that parades around as a doting earth mother. Even more unappetizing is the prepared food that sits behind an oddly foggy case, whose “cleaning” probably consists of an occasional wipe with a fair trade cotton cloth, and the surly staff who serves the food with as much enthusiasm as a sweaty lunch lady.
Jee Bijan: Manifest-no
Substance Sometimes it is a material thickness. But more often it exists as a lack. Its absence is weightier than its presence. It is matter both as noun and verb: to comprise matter, to be of matter, to matter.