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: May 2009
Laura Ling and Euna Lee Candlelight Vigils
Thanks to aznheartthrob from BcB who sent this link. They are holding vigils across the country for Laura Ling and Euna Lee. If you want to participate, you can check their Facebook page. Copied from their Facebook page are the following contacts for the vigil on June 3rd:
JUNE 3rd
PUBLIC VIGILS
June 3rd in the States is June 4th in North Korea, the day the trial starts.
VIGIL LOCATIONS:
Washington, D.C. VIGIL Organizers: Asia Liu, Max Neubauer, Wesley Della Volla, Daniel Beckmann, Joseph Hong
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=81896567681
New York, NY VIGIL Organizers: Danielle Chang,
Gwendolyn E. Lindsay-Jackson, Crystal Sun Kim
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=85102251771
Daddies Who Become HouseDaddies
The latest blog post at RiceDaddies from Daddy in a Strange Land talks about Secret Identities and the promotional events in LA. Check it out here. As I mentioned a couple days ago, I have a podcast coming up with Jimmy Aquino, who is one of the writers for Secret Identities. We recorded last night, and I expect to post that cast on Monday.
In his blog entry, Daddy in a Strange Land also linked a blog post that linked back to RD, a new blog called Double X (for the chromosomes). This blog post is fascinating. In the post, Hanna Rosin argues that we need fewer daddy posts, rather than more. She then quotes an equally fascinating Atlantic article by Caitlin Flanagan:
Why it's important to watch movies and TV
I watch communitychannel (Natalie Tran) on YouTube from time to time. ALL of her stuff is funny (“It’s porno music slash comments time”), but this one was f$%ing hilarious. I remember one message board battle I had last year where someone called me Gollum. I had no idea who Gollum was, and I still have no idea. Someone also once referenced the cherry chapstick song, and I didn’t get it until a month later. Educate your children with pop culture, or they too won’t get the cultural references.
Gingrich calls Sotomayor "racist"
See CNN story here.
When are these Repubs going to realize how pointless their accusations are? 107 of 111 Supreme Court justices have been White men. 43 of 44 U.S. Presidents have been White men. The vast majority of Fortune 500 CEOs are White men. Before Pelosi, ALL of the Speakers of the House, Mr. Gingrich, were White men. To make it seem like the playing field is equal when the playing field is clearly unequal would strike any rational person as being incorrect.
Her experience is different from yours, Mr. Gingrich. If they had more people like her in positions of power, you would probably realize this.
Medium to Enter TV Heaven
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Alas, the greatest TV show ever written will end next Monday. I learned this last night when I saw the preview for next week’s finale. According to one source, CBS may pick it up after NBC dumps it, but for the near future, it looks like the final curtain is closing.
I love the show. It’s rare to find a show which:
a) keeps its audience in suspense
b) encourages its audience to think creatively
c) employs amazing dialogue, sharp writing, and suspenseful film angles
d) elicits real feelings for all its characters
Obama Nominates Hispanic American Supreme Court Justice
President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayer to the U.S. Supreme Court. She would be the first Hispanic American Supreme Court Justice ever, and she would be the third female justice, after Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor.
Podcast: Interracial Relationships and the Gender Divide, Asian American Female Perspective
C-Bruhs (BicoastalBitchin), Eva (Blake and Micah podcast), and Sylvie (Antisocial Ladder) recorded an all-female podcast yesterday. It’s the third in an ongoing series about Asian American Interracial Relationships and the Gender Divide that we started last year on the first part and continued a few weeks ago with URB4N on the second part. This third one runs for just over an hour. Download it here (55 megabytes fat–not phat–since, once again, I ran into GarageBand problems), or listen to it here:
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PostSecret for Asian Americans
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Caught news of a new site called PostMimi at Slant Eye for the Round Eye. It’s a PostSecret-style blog, where the author Karen encourages Asian Americans to e-mail or mail their secrets to her.
I like the idea. But many Asian Americans already routinely post their secrets under anonymous handles on sites like the 44s and 8 Asians. I remember admin-ing the 44s and meeting some guy who admitted that he had been convicted of attempted rape, and that he didn’t care or have remorse. It was baffling (and sickening). So I wonder whether anyone will actually post anything original.
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Lyoto Machida, Newest UFC Champion!
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Lyoto Machida’s second round knockout of Rashad Evans was the best fight I’ve seen. Not only did he take out an accomplished fighter at the top of his game, he also took him out using some highly technical karate. Well before the fight, I called it correctly by saying that “Rashad [wouldn't] know what hit him,” but even I was shocked by the quickness and excitement of what I saw. When Rashad went down, the entire crowd in the sports bar erupted. No one saw it coming.
Data: Then and Now
I was planning to take a break for the long weekend, but I saw this on Angry Asian Man. Empire Magazine put together a Goonies reunion 20 years after the movie. You can see their “Then and Now” feature here. With the exception of Corey Feldman, it looks like they’ve all been successful.
Do people remember Data? Ke Huy Quan played the guy with the gadgets, as well as Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Man, that guy was a good mix of funny and cool. He played the brainy kid with such style that even the racist bullies on my grade school playground couldn’t make fun of him. Apparently he now works mostly behind the camera as a fight choreographer.
