Richard Nixon – Thang Nguyen 555

03/03/2013

Shared dishes

Suzie Wong. Suzie Q. Lazy Suzan. All the S’s in stereotypes. All boils down to a round table full of shared dishes, each could easily meet your dai;ly cholesterol quota. Half roasted duck, half chicken ginger etc…. Hong Kong cuisine, served in Herndon (VA). I thought about Nixon’s trip to China, and how many shared dishes he tasted…

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10/23/2012

Learning by failing

NYT Opinion Page wants to debate about being informed vs being educated. With the dcline of Newsweek, readers have moved on to Google News (ironically, today celebrates National Print Day) and other mobile content. Short bursts: Obama won the debate. The Giants got chemistry. We will someday think that a tweet, 140 characters, is too long. Just like the…

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04/26/2011

Transparent trail

I saved up my visual history in 3/4 inch, VHS, slides, prints, CDs, hard-drive, flashdrive and cloud. Not so much for me, but for my daughters . That collage documented my fits and starts. Each person is a narrative whose ending remains a mystery ( ‘in my end, is my beginning”). In the Year of Magical Thinking, the widow-writer kept wishing that…

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09/28/2009

Left, Right, Gone!

Jody Powell, Press Secretary under the Carter Administration, died a few years ago. William Safire, speech writer for President Nixon, also passed away soon afterwards. These two men left a legacy of words. Mr Safire was remembered more than his B/W iconic PR photo of the Cold War: He left us with a Dictionary of…

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