The Conversation
- Scapegoating our own (12)
- Frank Chow: @King He definitely said he opposed “same-sex marriage”, that didn’t change....
- King: @ Frank But Manny didn’t even say what he’s been accused of.
- Frank Chow: I think any athlete should be an athlete and accept the responsibility of their words in a public forum....
- Facebook co-founder renounces U.S. citizenship prior to IPO (13)
- Raguel: This is a storm in a tea cup, a new five minutes of hate. This is because despite the outrage, people will...
- Frank Chow: “The country is not over-taxed; in fact, tax rates are near 60 year lows.” -source,...
- bigWOWO: Linda, Mark Cuban is rich (richer than me anyway), and he’s just as horrified as I am. I don’t...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (428)
- LadyBlack: Hello, you who believe that some races are inferior and that some are superior. As a Black (in particular...
- bigWOWO: Thanks, Grover!
- Grover Porquel: Excellent roundup. I have taken on these “biodiversity” types myself over the years and...
- Higher education: the next subprime bubble (5)
- bigWOWO: Let’s think hypothetically. Let’s say they had quotas, such as a company of X number of...
- kobukson: In the past, a high school diploma was sufficient for getting a job. Things changed and a HS diploma...
- bigWOWO: I do agree with you, Ei, to a certain point. I have heard that some lawyers and engineers are having...
- Americans Eat the World’s Cheapest Food (36)
- bigWOWO: A week in, and: I liked the mock chicken, but the family didn’t like it. I don’t know if...
- King: ^ But isn’t Anthony Bourdain the same guy who recently called Paula Deen the “Worst Unhealthy Cook” for...
- kobukson: I like Anthony Bourdain’s take on vegetarians and vegans: “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like...
- Why Do Asian People Have Bad Eyesight? (37)
- Suing the Bachelor for racial discrimination (34)
- George: The problem with the entertainment industry is that they have already stated that blacks are not on the show...
- George: “Oh and prediction, you know the first female non white bachelorette will be Asian, and it will be...
- Chen: i’ve been reading about BFOQ cases, and it seems as if the entertainment industry wins unless they do...
- Reasons to eliminate black studies (23)
- Asian Men, Black Men, and the Competition for White Women (569)
- Raguel: Actually, white people may laugh at him even more, and that may be why they like him so much.
- Raguel: How does this nihilistic dog so filled with ressentiment and love of the slave morality even dare to mention...
- ChineseMom: (continued) Criticism of contemporary Chinese literature and Marxism Q: After the publication of your...
- Immigration records of Asian immigrants to be made available to public (2)
- American woman becomes hero to abused women in China (39)
- Chen: thats it. This woman got beat up, and that is wrong. I’m sure some assholes are going to use that and run...
- Eurasian Sensation: Patriarchal practices are incredibly ingrained in some countries and are extremely hard to shift....
- Raguel: Wasn’t it reported in one of the major american magazines like life, time etc that travelling ulamas...
- San Diego student left alone in cell for five days (3)
- bigWOWO: Haha…I know, Zach! This is the absolute worse kind of invisibility that there is!
- Zach Katagiri: Man — talk about asian american males being invisible!!
- Linda: this will be the next episode of “I survived….” I am surprised they don’t have video...
- Adventures of the Karaoke King by Harold Taw (Review and Question) (4)
- bigWOWO: Alpha, Glad that you see the precious metals rather than the ranking! Although I guess I should consider...
- Raguel: Why not make contact with other blogs and Asian American websites to feature your reviews? This way,...
- Alpha Asian: B, I know what you mean. A lot of reviewers just give very bland reviews and they don’t really...
- Asian women fetch high prices for egg donation (5)
- Dman: I don’t get the article Asian women in demand for donating her eggs. I did not see anything mentioned...
- bigWOWO: I think that buying an egg is financially easier these days than adoption from China. I know people trying...
- Linda: Also regarding about adoption. I think a lot of Americanized Asians are open to adoption in the US. (unlike...
- Re-Programming Your Mind (74)
- Chr..: I’m not making this up! I saw this guy in front of a Trader Joe’s here in NYC not too long ago as...
- Asian Women and the Invisible Chain (187)
- Chr..: @ King Yes, and what can the general masses do to stop with what’s going on right now? Not much I would...
- King: @ Chr Because the money, more than anything else, is ‘the system’ that affects everything else.
- Chr..: “The whole thing looks like a very twisted version of musical chairs, doesn’t it?” Why does this...
- Creative Monopolists (3)
- Asian husband-wife team on Shark Tank (3)
- Artists Who Refuse to Work for Free (5)
- Courtney: I have been drawing for 22 years. I think it’s really inconsiderate to ask an artist to sit down for...
- More Asian Americans Marrying Within Their Race (106)
- Chr..: “Look at some of the fatcats on Wall Street–a guy who can drop $800 on a single night out isn’t...
- The Richer Sex by Liza Mundy (Review) (12)
- Chr..: “dystopian mating marketplace where, like income inequality, the rewards of female sexuality will go...
- Whiteness and American TV (9)
- Linda: @hadoken – I don’t know why korean dramas are like crack. I go thru phases. since it’s a...
- Scapegoating our own (12)
Monthly Archives: July 2009
The Best of the Worst
Brock Lesnar
Brock Lesnar destroyed Frank Mir at UFC 100 tonight. It wasn’t unexpected; the guy weighed in at 265 and was probably around 280 at fight time, and his neck is thicker than most peoples’ waists. What was unexpected however was the post fight trash talk. After sitting on and pummeling Mir in the face until ref Herb Dean stepped in, Lesnar strode up to a still groggy Mir and shouted, “Talk all the shit you want now.” The fans booed.
Postcards for Laura and Euna
Thanks to Charlie who brought this to our attention: if you want to show your support for Laura and Euna, you can send them postcards in care of their families. From the Laura and Euna website:
Let Laura and Euna know they are not forgotten. Because of the difficulty in sending mail to North Korea, please send postcards only. Unfortunately, we cannot accept letters or packages on their behalf. Postcards can be sent to them care of their families, who will then forward them through the Swedish ambassador to North Korea.
Send your notes of encouragement to:
Disinterest Reticence Dispassion
(pic from here)
Brooks wrote a column in the NY Times yesterday about the “dignity code” and how it’s been obliterated. He describes the dignity code as follows:
The dignity code commanded its followers to be disinterested — to endeavor to put national interests above personal interests. It commanded its followers to be reticent — to never degrade intimate emotions by parading them in public. It also commanded its followers to be dispassionate — to distrust rashness, zealotry, fury and political enthusiasm.
He then talks about the forces that have killed it.
Google to Make Operating System
Let the fight begin. If I were Microsoft, I’d be shaking in my boots. True, others have gone against Windows before. But this is Google, a company with cash, outreach, brand recognition, smarts, and the desire to take over the world.
Update: New article out today. I also agree with the NY Times editorial.
I do like the idea of keeping stuff on a computer rather than everything over the web. I almost never use Google Docs. Hopefully there will be a compromise.
Podcast: Sam Yoon, Candidate for Mayor of Boston
Sam Yoon and Family
Today I had a podcast with Sam Yoon, Candidate for Mayor of Boston. Intern Sagar Sane, who made all the arrangements for the podcast and who is helping with internet publicity, was also present. The podcast is 46 minutes and 13 seconds long. For those who are following my ridiculous ongoing battle to get GarageBand ’08 to import large files directly to mp3, this time I WON, and the podcast is a sleek and slim 21.2 megs. Download it here, or listen to it here:
Posted in Activism, parenting, Podcasts, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Asian American, Boston, mayor, Politics, Sagar Sane, Sam Yoon, Yul Kwon
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Teaching, Learning, Promoting through the Internet
I use the web every day, but I’m only beginning to learn how powerful it can be. See the video above, where Jane Lui plays a solid original tune. Pretty hard jazz chords, no? Well, you can learn to play Jane’s original tune–from Jane herself. See below:
If you liked Marie Digby’s song in my Marie Digby post, you can also learn to play it from the songwriter herself (at 1:50):
Posted in media
Tagged Arts and music, Asian American, internet, Jane Lui, Marie Digby, media, talent, youtube
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Incandescents getting a technology boost
Old and new incandescents
From the NY Times today: Incandescent Bulbs Return to the Cutting Edge. Here’s a cool statement that could bode well for the state of our economy:
Indeed, the incandescent bulb is turning into a case study of the way government mandates can spur innovation.
“There’s a massive misperception that incandescents are going away quickly,” said Chris Calwell, a researcher with Ecos Consulting who studies the bulb market. “There have been more incandescent innovations in the last three years than in the last two decades.”
With the added government focus on the environment, maybe these new standards could spur innovations AND jobs.
Single Black Women Adopting
Wendy Duren with her beautiful daughter Madison
I saw this beautiful, though somewhat sad, article on CNN today. Black women are choosing to adopt without waiting for a man to come around. These black women are successful, strong, and accomplished, but they have not found men who will marry them or treat them with respect. Many have decided to go ahead and move forward with motherhood. It’s beautiful because these women are empowered and not allowing society to hold them back, but it’s sad because these men are turning down something good.
Posted in parenting
Tagged adoption, African American, Asian American, children, parenting, women
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Rice Chaser Rapist Kills Himself
Just saw this on AAM. I remember last year when they were looking for this guy. He would sneak into garages, take money from Asian women, and then sexually assault them. He even attacked a woman who had her 18 month old child with her. During his last attempt, he tried to sexually assault the woman in the interview above, who happens to be a marathon runner. (This woman is white.) She “freaked out,” fought him off, chased him down, and cops arrested him. Props to her. The rice chaser coward then hanged himself in his prison cell.
Meiko?
You know how YouTube links up related videos? Well, with my post on Marie Digby, the above video came up. I clicked it and thought, “Hey, I’ve heard this song before on the radio. But why is that White chick named Meiko?” So I google searched it, and Wiki had an interesting story:
Meiko is one-quarter Japanese, on her maternal grandmother’s side; in an attempt to get in touch with their Japanese heritage, she and her sister, designer Kelly Nishimoto, adopted the names Meiko and Keiko. While those names are pronounced “May-ee-ko” and “Kay-ee-ko” in Japan, she and her sister pronounce them “MEE-ko” and “KEE-ko”. “We didn’t know we were misspelling/mispronouncing them for quite some time,” Meiko remembers. “We didn’t have the heart to change the spelling.”
