The Conversation
- Jeremy Lin: Our Generation’s Joe Louis (11)
- Blacklisted: B, “Jeremy Lin is the Joe Louis of our time. I remember reading the Autobiography of Malcolm X,...
- Mojo Rider: This is just awesome….I watched the game too and wasn’t sure if he was going to score 20...
- SWR: This is a no-lose situation: If Jeremy Lin continues to tear it up, then we’ve all got an underdog...
- “But he hit me back first!” (46)
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- jstele: Right, just like you didn’t bother to look up the law before saying that you didn’t think that shopowner who...
- King: I will be kissing Asian women like Linda against the wall without a shirt”. Yuck!!!
- Amy Chua: Chinese Conceit, Chinese Ignorance, and the $24,000 question (247)
- bigWOWO: Not sure if you’re a “bot” or a real person, Andre, but I know lots of Chuas. Only...
- Andre M. Smith: Further on Chua as a Chinese surname . . . My wife, a gyn surgeon, hails from a family of...
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- Raguel: Yes! I mean with me. How did I miss that part out? And why do I suddenly feel some anxiety?
But here is an... - 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: Yes! I mean with me. How did I miss that part out? And why do I suddenly feel some anxiety?
- The Other-Directed Personality (1)
- Siegfried: Mitt got Obama worried. He is shaking in his boots. It’s over for Obama because Mitt is going to...
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (9)
- N: @TD Good pick up on that one.
- trolldetector: @Colin I love how whites keep trying to troll their divide tactics Asian blogs under different guises.
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Colin: I’m pretty sure Jeremy Lin and his supporters are not the same person.
- Jeremy Lin shines (21)
- trolldetector: GO JEREMY LIN
- 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...
- What Cultures Value (22)
- trolldetector: @Colin. Dont you belong on a Lord Of The Rings filmset? Thats where most white trolls dwell isnt it?
- colin: A bit late to this, but bigwowo, you grossly underestimate the anti-work and anti-intellectual ethic here in...
- bigWOWO: Yeah, I could go for that.
- 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
- 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)
- Tommy: I think I’m coming here more for Moro’s comments than BigWoWO’s posts.
- “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...
- Jeremy Lin: Our Generation’s Joe Louis (11)
Category Archives: media
“Touch” by Minh Duc Nguyen (Trailer Review)
bigWOWO rating: Avoid this racist bullshit. Seriously, given the crap we’ve gone through, it’s not overkill to protest the minute you see something like this.
Check out the trailer for Touch. It’s…OMG…yet ANOTHER WM/AF movie with Asian men in the background. And not only is it yet ANOTHER WM/AF movie, it’s a WM/AF movie by…bada boom bada bing…an Asian American guy (Minh Duc Nguyen)! And it’s produced by an Asian woman (Mellissa Tong)! Reminds me of Red Doors and Falling From…I mean, For…Grace–the racist legacy continues. It’s funny that I wrote about the exclusion of the Asian American heterosexual male among Asian Americans, and sure enough there’s a whole lot of stuff coming out that excludes Asian American heterosexual men, as if the universe had come together to help me prove my point. Check out the info on some of these movies: they’re winning Asian American movie awards. Did I or did I not speak the truth about our exclusion?
The Asian Rock Thread
I saw y’all’s interesting discussion on music started by Catwalq in the other thread. I agree with you, there aren’t many Asian American ROCK bands, except maybe the Morning Benders. Sorry for all the old videos; I’ve been away from the scene for a while. But these are among my favorite Asian rock songs:
My daughter likes this song by Elephant Kashimashi:
Here’s the Morning Benders:
I think it’s hard to be an AA rock band. The singer-songwriter acoustic thing seems to be more popular, regardless of who is singing.
Chinglish by David Henry Hwang
I know it’s been a while since you people have seen a WM/AF couple in theater, so I wanted to alert you to a new play coming soon to a theater near you: “Chinglish,” by David Henry Hwang. According to the NY Times, it’s “about a bewildered American businessman hoping to make his fortune in capitalist China.” We clearly don’t have enough White male protagonists in American theater, so I’m glad David Henry Hwang is providing job opportunities and media attention for the less fortunate.
Invisible Heterosexual Asian Men
Check out my piece in the current issue of the Seattle-based International Examiner: Heterosexual Asian Men and the Invisibility Problem. I even managed to quote Russell Simmons at the end.
My favorite line: “We Asian men are de-facto exiles within our own culture.”
The piece begins:
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (Review)
I wanted to read something different, so I decided to check out Fear of Flying by Erica Jong. Erica Jong herself isn’t a racial minority (although she’s Jewish), but she was married to a Chinese American psychologist for a while (a dude with the last name Jong), and I had heard that Fear of Flying, an autobiographical novel, was about a White woman married to a Chinese guy. I had also heard that the book was an important one for the growing feminist movement during the 70′s, and I thought it might be good for me to educate myself.
Everyone Wants To Live Like Americans
This is my 1,000th bigWOWO post.
Of all the afterthoughts following the death of Steve Jobs and the legacy of Apple, the most interesting one I read was AskAKorean’s Can Korea Be Truly Creative? In the post, he writes about how Steve Jobs inspired Koreans to ask each other if their country could be as creative as Apple.
It’s long for a blog post, but give it a read if you have time. The conclusion “The Korean” reaches is that Korea is already creative. The reason Apple was able to do what it did, the Korean speculates, is due in large part to the fact that Apple is an American company. He writes:
Screen Time and Education
I saw these two seemingly contradictory articles in the NY Times recently.
The first article was about a rich, private school in Silicon Valley which discourages the use of technology as a learning tool: At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait. Parents, many of whom work at Apple, Google, EBay, and Yahoo, pay thousands of dollars to send their kids to this school, and yet there isn’t a single computer on campus. Instead they learn with pens, paper, and bright colored chalk. One father who is a Google employee says:
2011 CAAM Fellowship Program
Got this in my inbox. Thought it might be useful for some of the media artists to meet accomplished AAs in the field. We definitely need more Asian Americans to be creating films. Sign up if you’re interested! (It’s due on Monday!!!)
About the 2011 CAAM Fellowship Program
After a successful inaugural year, CAAM is excited to launch the CAAM Fellowship Program for 2011. Furthering CAAM’s work to nurture Asian American media professionals and advance the field of Asian American Media, the Program will connect talented and dedicated individuals with leading professionals in the field. The CAAM Fellowship Program seeks to develop the talents and skills of a range of media professions including filmmakers, actors, programmers, and executives.
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Emotional Intelligence and EQ
Emotional Intelligence was a book by Daniel Goleman that I read over ten years ago. I don’t remember the details of the book, but I remember being struck by the idea that a person’s “emotional intelligence” can determine a person’s success in life. Goleman had case studies of really smart high IQ people who lose it because they can’t control or engage their emotions. Goleman directed people’s attention instead to EQ– Emotional Intelligence Quotient. Check out an excellent reader review of Goleman’s book here. About.com defines emotional intelligence by saying:
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Artists Who Refuse to Work for Free
Someone (who prefers to remain anonymous) sent me a link to the above T-shirt and asked me if I agree. It reads:
I am an artist. This does not mean I will work for free. I have bills like you. Thank you for understanding.
I agree, and I disagree. Having been on both sides–creating the art and asking people to do the art for free, it’s not a simple question with a simple answer.
