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: April 2009
Jaehwan's Last Lap at the 44s
This was my recent blog at the Fighting 44s. I love the site, but I’ve realized that my time is up. Over the next week or so, I’ll try to post some articles up there (and here too).
(Photo from here.)
Everyone who has ever been involved in collaborative or competitive work knows that neither sprints nor marathons last forever. There’s a time to begin, a time to excel, and a time to stop. After being a member here for five years and working as a blogger for perhaps the last year and a half at the 3rd Most Dangerous Job in the Asian American Blogosphere, my time has come. It’s time for me to meander to a different pasture. My blogging career at the Fighting 44s will be over at the end of this month.
Clarification on the "Dogs" and "Stunt People"
I’m not sure what’s more interesting: the fact that we’re still talking about this movie, or the fact that we’ve got tons of martial artists here and only one person so far has commented on Lyoto Machida’s title shot.
So here’s my view on the whole “Dogs of Chinatown” debate–I guess we’re talking about the debate now, rather than the movie itself.
Lyoto Machida Gets Title Shot!
(Pic from here.)
In Asian American (Asian Brazilian?) sports news, Lyoto Machida is FINALLY getting a title shot in the UFC. Machida is an amazing fighter. As Joe Rogan described him, he is the most elusive fighter in UFC history. He somehow manages to get hit only a few times per fight, if he gets hit at all. If you think about the level of competition in the UFC, it’s pretty amazing that he’s able to do this. It’s pretty amazing that anyone can do this.
Happy Earth Day
Today is Earth Day. Celebrate by turning off the TV and checking out the awesome outdoors. Cut down on your car usage. If you’re in Portland, we don’t have the sunny hot weather that we had yesterday, but it’s dry and cool–perfect Portland weather.
If you need inspiration, I found this MySpace page with good Earth Day imagery and quotes.
Actors' "Why" Post
One of the things I like most about having my own blog is that people understand I’ve got my own schedule. I post when I can, even though I don’t always have time. Plus, I get to ask hard questions that may not be popular on other blogs or may cause people to fight. I have total total freedom.
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Bicoastal Bitchin Podcast
Check out the latest bigWOWO podcast where we interview the three bloggers from Bicoastalbitchin.com: Aznheartthrob, C-Bruhs, and Sherdizzle (Love their onscreen names!). The podcast is 14.5 megabytes and runs for around 31 minutes. You can download it here, or you can listen to it here:
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My next Amazon purchase (along with the aforementioned Secret Identities)
(See Jamie Ford’s with Borders interview here.)
I’d like to take a moment to embarrass some of my contributors. A few months ago, Winnovative, MinorityMilitant, Larry, and Jason sent me an Amazon.com certificate out of the blue. I was totally surprised and really touched. I LOVE Amazon–it’s my favorite store on the web. Thank you so much! I used to make a decent living before having kids, but with tons of expenses both in the present and future, I rarely spend these days. With the cost of diapers, food, and eventual college, I’m most likely going to spend the next 21 years in poverty.
"We Chinese People Need to Be Controlled"
Jackie Chan
According to KATU and the Associated Press:
BOAO, China (AP) — Action star Jackie Chan said Saturday he’s not sure if a free society is a good thing for China and that he’s starting to think “we Chinese need to be controlled.”
He then went on to talk about Hong Kong and Taiwan being too chaotic.
I have the utmost respect for Jackie Chan’s contributions to stunts and movies–he’s the greatest stuntman in the history of film. However, I think he’s fallen on his head one too many times. This is the same guy who encouraged China to spread its culture by marrying off women from Shanghai to foreigners.
CaucAsian PlayBoy/Better CaucAsian Kid
Alec Greven
I saw this video while doing research on another book (which I’ll talk about soon). Nine year old Alec Greven wrote a book called “How to Talk To Girls.” It reminded me a lot of those Asian Pick Up Artist conversations we had.
This nine year old wrote a book on how to pick up girls. It’s cute and all…but why do parents let their kids do stuff like this?
Secret Identities
I just wanted to give a plug for Secret Identities. I’ll probably be checking this book out very soon. See the ABC News Clip of Jeff Yang, Editor-in-Chief, above.
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