FAQ Questions I Made Up
Things I would have asked myself that you might not have asked because you thought it was a stupid question or because you don't know how to contact me...so I asked for you.
Why did you do last name + first name for your domain name instead of first name + last name?
It's a play on words with my name. Zhao in Chinese can also mean find or look for depending on the intonation, so you can read it as “Zhao, Anna” or “looking for Anna?” if you want to include the "me" (technically spelled ma, but same pronunciation, so *shrug*, close enough).
If you don't speak Chinese, you've probly never pronounced my last name correctly, so you can pretend to let it mean whatever you want, since truth doesn't matter anyways.
What's with the hat vs boa thing?
It's a reference to The Little Prince, tied with Harry Potter for one of my favorite books–go read it! If not, I hope you can figure it out from this.
What are your life goals?
- Play basketball with Obama
- Get Meryl Streep or Jodie Comer to imitate my friends.
- Build a bike
- Make Hogwarts out of Legos...like this:
Check out Alice Finch's entire album here. The detail is amazing.
(Uncommonish, maybe) Recs?
(Ok so I just wanted more people to appreciate these.)
Books:
Harry Potter is just assumed here. Let's pretend JK Rowling didn't get a parasite in her brain that turned her into a typical boomer.
- The Glass Castle
- Le Petit Prince
- The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- Born a Crime (Trevor Noah's memoir)
- Thrillers: Gone Girl, Sharp Objects, The Housemaid series (all 3), They Never Learn, None of this is True
- Dark Matter and Recursion by Blake Crouch
- Nothing to Envy (non fiction)
- The Help
- Battle Royale (Japanese Hunger Games)
- The Kite Runner
- Roald Dahl + his short stories
- Wayside School Series
Movies:
- Parasite (I raved about this movie to everybody I knew for months to the point where it became a personality trait and then it became the first foreign language filme to win an Oscar for Best Picture 😎). Honestly watch anything of Bong Joon Ho's - Mother, Taxi Driver (not the one with de Niro)
- Interstellar
- Deadpool
- 3 Idiots
- Miss Sloane, Molly's Game (I'm a big Jessica Chastain fan lol)
- Primal Fear
- The Little Prince
- CODA
- Promising Young Woman
- Nightcrawler
- The Menu (a must if you're a foodie)
- Temple Grandin
- Hoop Dreams
- RomComs if you grew up in a cave (this is directed to one person): Mean Girls, The Devil Wears Prada, She's the Man, Ms Congeniality, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Hitch, Legally Blonde
- Classics if you grew up in a cave: Titanic, Gladiator, Braveheart, Cast Away, Dark Knight, Forrest Gump
TV:
- S1+ S2 Killing Eve (def skip S4)
- Breaking Bad + Better Call Saul
- Black Mirror (BBC version, ask me for rec episode list)
- Arrested Development
- Crash Landing on You (Netflix but it gets its own line)
- HBO: The Last of Us, Sharp Objects, Chernobyl
- Call My Agent (watch it in French)
- Netflix: BEEF, Squid Game (at least thru E6)
- Sherlock
- Apple TV: Severance, Ted Lasso
- Better Off Ted
- Malcolm in the Middle
Podcasts that aren't This American Life/99% Invisible/Radiolab: Believed (NPR), The Dropout, Reply All, The Catch & Kill Podcast
What is something you don't understand?
Why red delicious apples still exist
Wtf does #TrustTheProcess mean?
This is what I think of when I hear the words "the process":
What's the secret to life?
Low expectations
How many watermelons do you usually buy at one go?
It depends on how many I have at home when I go and where I'm living. I like to have one backup at all times, but if I'm living in NYC, just one...because carrying a watermelon is a both arm exercise. I'm not trying to be like this guy.
Can you get diabetes from eating too much watermelon?
Wait this is a stupid question that I wanted answered.
Why does each page have a different look to it? The incongruity is disconcerting.
Yeaaa, so I made this myself and basically, I design things like Homer makes cars...At least I was broke to start with, so no harm done.
Are you going to remake your site?
This was one of the first things I made when I was learning how to build websites, so it's kind of nice to see how far I've come.
Why didn't you just use Squarespace? Seriously, the incongruity is disconcerting.
Life Rule #3. Don't pay for things that you don't need to pay for.
I really like the font.
That's not a question, but thank you. I spent a lonnng time debating between this and Oxygen and consulting un-paid font snob friends. I'm so glad you noticed. It's good to know it wasn't a total waste of time.
I don't like the font.
Go to the I'm hungry and photos pages and look at the pictures then?
Where is an email to contact you?
Uh you can message me on IG? @annazhaopian
That was fun, who should I stalk next?