The Conversation
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (7)
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Colin: I’m pretty sure Jeremy Lin and his supporters are not the same person.
- colin: I was pretty impressed with Lin, until some digging around leads me to believe he’s more interested in...
- Eurasian Sensation: Why does anyone give a shit? The US is the global capital of people loudly claiming their love...
- What Cultures Value (21)
- “But he hit me back first!” (37)
- colin: It’s taboo to speak this truth in America, but here it is: Blacks are as racist as, if not more than,...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Raguel: It’s interesting that you raise the Indonesian Chinese, as there are indeed some...
- Raguel: As heated as the debate has become I think that it has been productive. The perspectives raised, unpopular or...
- Seeking Asian Female (7)
- King: “If I ever get a mail order bride I will get her addicted to sex first.” I assume you mean with you...
- bigWOWO: Linda, Haha! Maybe that dude is on to something with the foreign language nagging. But to be honest, maybe...
- raguel: LOL @ Chen and traumatic comedy XD The more I discover about mail-order marriages the more horrible the...
- About A Boy by Nick Hornby (6)
- bigWOWO: That’s a really good point, Raguel. Like it or not, TV executives control everything (including what...
- Raguel: I could be wrong but the distribution windows for media and especially film seems very hierarchical. If you...
- bigWOWO: Illegal streaming? I had no idea anyone did that! Well, I really should check out some movies one of these...
- Superbowl Recipe and Xenophobic Superbowl Ad (22)
- Raguel: Time to get your concealed carry licences, folks!
- Eurasian Sensation: Jeff Yang has a good article about this ad: http://inamerica.blogs.cnn....
- Raguel: I haven’t even gotten to why the ad really is so offensive to us, ROFL
- Jeremy Lin shines (20)
- N: @danny You should youtube his college games. The two against Boston college and the one against UConn. Lol, he can...
- Lingyai: @Ben Efsaneyim Why would it be surprising a non Asian crowd cheering for Lin? Most of the NBA fans going to...
- bigWOWO: Danny and Mojo, Holy crap! That’s amazing! I didn’t know he could dunk either! I think...
- Stop SOPA and PIPA (9)
- Raguel: ^ Nice one Byron! I’m reading through the NYT picks, they’re good!
- bigWOWO: The Times had an Op-Ed by the President of the RIAA, and I commented. My comment was picked as a...
- Raguel: Found a great website, take a look at this: https://www.cdt.org/ Why should privacy be important, in an age...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (402)
- bigWOWO: Here’s an interesting suggestion coming out of MIT: Connectome by Sebastian Seung...
- Battle Hymn of the Kitten Daughter (36)
- Raguel: You know Andre, you and me, I think we and a lot of other folks may have gone through some pretty harrowing...
- Andre M. Smith: Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew....
- Two podcasts that address racism in the military, and Danny Chen the person (9)
- Raguel: The origins of racism in the American military as described by loudestfuckingazns is accurate. Very recently,...
- bigWOWO: Sorry, Larry, just noticed that the spam robot junked your comment. Approved!
- bigWOWO: Agreed. It just has more weight if you include your name. Not that the ideas are any less valid, but it just...
- Facebook IPO (5)
- King: Actually WOWO, I bump into plenty of Asians up at the Art Center College of Design http://www.artcenter.edu/a...
- bigWOWO: Agree with King. This might not be a bad thing for Asian Americans to hear about. We can jump off the STEM...
- Raguel: People are too accustomed to thinking about value only in terms of money. Even artists are guilty of it. Some...
- Activism is as activism does (10)
- trolldetector: Brooks also goes onto say ‘You should attach yourself to a counter-tradition and school of...
- bigWOWO: By the way, speaking of activism, there was a great David Brooks column recently. He talks about how people...
- Raguel: I have no experience whatsoever with activism. I simply do not feel safe participating in it. There is always...
- How to Win a Streetfight (18)
- bigWOWO: No worries. I feel the same way. Nothing against her, but just doubtful.
- Raguel: Hi Byron! I’ve been occupied doing a lot of reading and thinking recently. I suppose its just another...
- bigWOWO: Hey Raguel, What about your comments on ASSK?
I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
- UFC 117 Sonnen vs. Silva Recap (1)
- bigWOWO: I think Michael Bisping solved the Chael Sonnen puzzle today, even though he lost a controversial decision....
- 6 on 1 Beatdown of Asian Man (36)
- King: “I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima...
- SWR: Apparently the girl in the second video was not the girl who filmed the fight. It was probably unwise of her to...
- Raguel: I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima in...
- Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan (Review) (6)
- bigWOWO: Jeff, You called it! They were (if I recall correctly) 7 (twins) and 2. He’s still in the honeymoon...
- jeffat8asians: “Overpaying?” With the possible exception of college tuition (and even that is arguable),...
- Hitler: Kids suck lol.
- The Asian Rock Thread (16)
- ben: I’ve been getting into Asian rock music recently so thank you all very much for uploading all these videos.
- Simple Pickup on ABC News (132)
- “Lazy” Americans and the Decline of the American Middle Class (6)
- bigWOWO: But kobu, how can we have literature and art without money to support artists and writers? About...
- kobukson: I don’t know why everyone seems to think the notion of the decline of the middle class is such a bad...
- bigWOWO: There are a lot of veterans (supposedly) on that site. I can kind of understand it–military guys are...
- Aung Sung Suu Kyi Movie with Michelle Yeoh (45)
- bigWOWO: Eurasian, Lee Kuan Yew has always been upfront about Singapore’s hybrid system. To the best of my...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ BigWowo: New governments following independence or a major power struggle often have the sort...
- N: @bww And ironically, one of the rare democratic successes in the region that is Singapore behaves much closer to a...
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (7)
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Cash Rolls in for YouTubers
People in the Asian American blogosphere always talk about blogging and Youtube because both have enabled us to get the word out. Some of the top YouTube acts, including NigaHiga and David Choi, are Asian American, and the web has cut the cost of both production and distribution. Back in the day, it was simply too expensive to create videos or publish writing. Now both are either free or almost free.
Still, the question remains: how can one make money on the web? Though some of us jump to the professional level, most of us are just hobbyists. How does one enter the professional ranks?
bigWOWO in the Pacific Citizen
Hey All,
Yesterday, we were written up by Miya Kataoka in the Pacific Citizen, the national JACL publication. Our friends Alpha-Asian and the Minority Militant were in the same issue.
I got a few quotes or references in, but I think this is my favorite:
“In a small community like ours, I think it’s hard to manage sites that are political,” Byron Wong, administrator and blogger for bigWOWO and Fighting 44s, said. “But I think it’s important that the political and social dialogue is out there, so I’d rather get people mad by speaking my mind than to go through life being silent.”
The Crash
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist to lead Energy Department
Steven Chu, next Energy Secretary
Just saw this on CNN. With all the talk about green energy, this will be a huge position in the upcoming administration.
Shark Fin Soup
Just saw this article on CNN about shark fin soup and how the thriving Chinese middle class is forcing sharks into extinction. For those amateur marine biologists out there, you all know that the shark is one of the oldest species in the world. These animals have been around for 400 million years; they came before the dinosaurs. They are animals of lore, beautiful, sleek animals which inspire the imagination, despite their reputation as killers. Because they are among the top predators in the sea, they are also vitally important to ecosystem. Now they are quickly becoming an endangered species.
The Post-PUA Era of the Asian American Blogosphere
BKS Iyengar
(Image from Yoga Iyengar de Marseille)
But what has ego done to procreation, to the harmonious union of complementary opposites? It has twisted it into an act of egoic self-affirmation. Lust is self-validation through consumption. Control through the exercise of power.
–BKS Iyengar, Light on Life, p. 87 (ISBN-10 1-59486-524-8)
The Tribune Company Falls
With respect to our neverending WOWO debate about the future of books/media and the internet, The Tribune Company has just declared bankruptcy. Ouch.
The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection in a federal court in Delaware on Monday, as the publisher of newspapers like The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune struggled to cope with rising debt and falling ad revenue.
From the Tribune website:
TRIBUNE is America’s largest employee-owned media company, operating businesses in publishing, interactive and broadcasting, including ten daily newspapers and commuter tabloids, 23 television stations, WGN America, WGN-AM and the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
Blacks and the White House
The NY Times printed a fascinating historical look at African Americans and the White House.
It starts off:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first child born at the White House was the grandson of President Thomas Jefferson. The second child born there was his property — the African-American baby of Jefferson’s two slaves.
Fascinating. The article then goes on to talk about African employees who have helped to run it.
As an aside, I’ve been interested in the lives of butlers ever since reading the Remains of the Day.
Joseph Cao, First Vietnamese American in Congress
Joseph Cao
The news media has me working overtime.
Joseph Cao is the first Vietnamese American person ever to be elected to the U.S. Congress. He won his seat in a predominantly black district, so maybe we are starting to enter a post-racial era.
John Jay Talks about Chinatown and Portland
John Jay
Thanks to David, who told me about this article in yesterday’s Oregonian. It’s an excellent article about a local Asian American businessman who is taking care of business at the ground level by building up the culture of Portland. I love the fact that John Jay is working with business and government leaders in order to develop Chinatown, I love the fact that he’s concentrating on the cultural aspects of the city, I love the fact that he consciously reflects on ethnicity, and I love the fact that he has put so much time, money, and effort in making our city better. Oh, and I love the fact that Studio J was one of Thymos’s Gold Sponsors for Frank Chin. Check out this part of the interview:
