The Conversation
- “But he hit me back first!” (13)
- Siegfried: If it was a Russian or any other white man who told blacks”to go back to Africa”, it would...
- Raguel: I saw that Spike Lee film “Do the Right Thing” years ago but still can’t understand it.
- bigWOWO: Stele: “Care to qualify that statement? Even if that were true, you have to look at this case on its...
- 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...
- Stop SOPA and PIPA (7)
- Raguel: Found a great website, take a look at this: https://www.cdt.org/ Why should privacy be important, in an age...
- Raguel: Following the temporary shelving of SOPA and PIPA in the long line of net neutrality battles, the feds and...
- Chr..: “Asian American men have to get more involved, not less. It’s a civic responsibility, and you have to...
- 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...
- What Cultures Value (19)
- 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)
- Tommy: I think I’m coming here more for Moro’s comments than BigWoWO’s posts.
- Moroboshi: I didn’t say that. All I said was guys who believe in HBD are the same guys who probably also follow...
- Chr..: Moro, I don’t want to argue with you anymore! You seem to think that AMs are just as popular as other...
- “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...
- Paper Pushers by the Stunt People (4)
- Andre M. Smith: I divide my year annually between New York and Shanghai. One of my common visitations in the latter...
- Raguel: Smiley tests 8 )
8( - Raguel: ROFL! Thank you for thoroughly destroying Amy Chua, Andre. WELL SAID ^_^ You know the destruction is so...
- Amy Chua: Chinese Conceit, Chinese Ignorance, and the $24,000 question (245)
- Andre M. Smith: I believe some useful purpose will be served by offering here, what the lawyers might like to call,...
- N: What’s your opinion on Yundi Li and Yoyo Ma.
- Andre M. Smith: Amy Chua has never lived in China. Her understanding of its culture, that is, the culture as it’s...
- How to Finish Life With No Regrets (9)
- trolldetector: ^ i’d agree with that. but i wouldnt call them ‘idiots’, just misguided. crazy media...
- N: Agree with Jeff that not one regret is unlikely, the key is learn from it. Another way to look at it is that...
- American Jobs and India (14)
- lingyai: I am not sure what happen there with my name, that is not my email, so just ignore.
- lingyai@hotmail.com: @bigwowo Just because the average income in India is $2 a day doesn’t make a person...
- AM/AF couple: Nottyboy, Yes, just like every place of employment, upper management needs to do a better job in terms...
- Literary Fiction vs. Realistic Fiction and the Literary Hierarchy (6)
- Sana Rose: Well, now I am confused. I still can’t classify the novel I am writing.
I wouldn’t say...
- Sana Rose: Well, now I am confused. I still can’t classify the novel I am writing.
- National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012 (32)
- Raguel: http://www.occupydream.org/ ^ I heard about this from Russell Simmons. I hope that things develop well to...
- Raguel: So is that the reasoning for why you don’t need the right to due process? Are you some kind of fucking...
- N: @King The constitution gave power to the states to benefit white america or the constitution gave benefitial power...
- When Your Fan Base is Full of Crazy People (24)
- N: @American girl Too be honest, I don’t really see why this video that ‘disgusting’ –...
- Mitt Romney and the Problem of Wealth (6)
- Raguel: Where do people get their information and knowledge from, though? Media, and education, word of mouth only...
- “But he hit me back first!” (13)
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Call for Asian American Writers
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If you are a fiction writer of Asian American descent who writes about Asian Americans, we are forming a writers group. We have room for one more person. E-mail me (naruguard-44 at yah oo dot com) if you’re a writer who is interested in a writing group. If one group fills up, I can always introduce writers to each other so that people can form other groups.
Some European Newspapers Thrive
One media company that is thriving
The NY Times, itself hurting in this bad economy, published an article today about how some newspapers in Europe are thriving: European Papers Find Creative Ways to Thrive. The comparison is a bit assymetrical since, as the article says, “American newspapers are seen as journalism’s gold standard,” but it’s great that journalism is doing well in some locales. The best thing is that they’re able to grow their numbers while keeping the news free:
D.I.Y. Magazines
Bare Magazine staff
It looks like HP is releasing a print-on-demand web service for magazines. From the description, it sounds like the new service MagCloud is similar to lulu.com, where a publisher creates the publication over the web and customers order it directly. The new service looks good–because HP is the king of printers, the service is capable of producing high quality glossy magazines.
The Blue and the Brown
Funny editorial by Maureen Dowd about eye color: Blue Eyed Greed. The comments are just as funny as the article. Most of the commenters are asking what the point is, but the fact that there is no point makes it all that much funnier.
My Older Person's 44s Post
I am posting the following to the 44s. It’s funny because there are two entirely different audiences on this site vs. the 44s. I love the 44s site, but the fact is that I’m getting older, and the things that concern me these days are not always the same as what concerned me in the past. bigWOWO’s audience, to a large degree, is much more suitable for my current age and mindset.
Here’s my post:
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Slash teaches guitar to kids
I found the video above on CNN. Pretty cool stuff. It looks like Slash is using his post-GNR days to inspire kids with his talent. I was impressed with his love of music and what he had to say about it: “[Music] is just as important as math or English or history.” I agree with that. If you google “Confucius” and “music,” you will see that music played an extremely important part of traditional Asian culture. It was considered a necessary subject for educated people. It’s only in the modern age that Asian and Asian American people became preoccupied with math, science, and subjects that deal with hard reality. I think it’s time for a renaissance.
They never asked me
The NY Times had a short article today about a teacher from a financially stressed school who brokered a deal with a pizza place. The high school teacher Jeb Harrison brokered a deal that allowed a local pizza restaurant to put ads on the bottom of every page for buying 10,000 sheets of paper for $315. Kids studying their assignments now have to see pizza ads in order to pay for their education.
“I taught my kids a good lesson,” Mr. Harrison said. “I saved my school some money, and I helped out a local business.”
Asian Red Face May Indicate Risk of Cancer
According to the NY Times, if you get red face when you drink but are still able to consume large amounts of alcohol, it means that you’re at an increased risk of throat cancer.
Turning red is a trait shared by 1/3 of people of East Asian ancestry, caused by a lack of the enzyme called ALDH2. If you have two copies of the gene responsible for the missing enzyme, you get red and feel sick after very little alcohol. If you have only one copy of the gene, you’ll get red, but you’ll still be able to drink. It’s these people–the red faced drinkers–who are at an increased risk of throat cancer. So if you’re a drinker who turns red, you may want to cut down.
Deep Pockets and Asian American Culture
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The NY Times had a great editorial about Bernard Madoff and the allure of money: If Looks Could Steal. In the editorial, Daphne Merkin, sister of a Madoff investor, talks about how we as a society respect money and how money seems to validate everything that a rich person says. She brings up an example of a dinner with George Soros, and she describes it thus:
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Steven Chu adjusts to politics
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu
The NY Times had an article about Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s adjustment to Washington today. He’s got a bumpy road ahead. It’s hard for numbers guys to get used to the rough and tumble of debate. It says:
Asked later what part of his job he liked the least, Dr. Chu said: “The fact that I’m constantly being told that I have to be careful what I say to the press and in public. I can’t speculate out loud anymore. Everything I say is taken with total seriousness.”
