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- Scapegoating our own (13)
- King: ^Yeah, but so did Obama 4 years ago. It’s inconsistent to think that Obama can have an arch of decision...
- 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.
- 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 (13)
Category Archives: Portland
Stay at home dad groups
| Portland Dads at Home |
I learned of this group maybe a month ago, but they got written up in the Oregonian just this past week. Check out the article here.
I’ve communicated with some of these guys through e-mail, and they seem very nice. I think it’s a great idea for dads to do community activities like this, even those of us who aren’t Stay-at-Home-Dads. We humans are communal animals, and kids have so much more fun when they’re playing with and surrounded by other kids. If Eric, the guy in the video, had success in a small city like Portland, I can imagine that forming a dad’s group would be possible in other cities as well.
Portland Cheap Eating
They had an interesting article on Portland cheap eats yesterday in the NY Times. I’ve eaten at the stands before, but I seriously never knew that it extended that deep. If any of you visit Portland, I know where I’m taking you.
I need to try that blue burger in the video. I think my own burgers are the best in the world–I know I’m better than anything I’ve found so far–but I always welcome competition!
Golden Swan, RIP
I drove all the way out to the other side of Beaverton to eat at my favorite restaurant, the Golden Swan. Few people in Portland know of the Golden Swan. It’s a hole in the wall–the place has no central heating, there’s a quarter inch of grease on all the tables, and the floor gets cleaned once a month. Plus the name of the restaurant changes every couple years, probably because the authorities shut it down for health violations.
Portland, the Whitest Big City in the West
Thanks, Larry, for this article from the Oregonian. My goodness, we’re whiter than Nashville! We should start our own country music scene here.
This part of the article describes the cultural issues accurately:
Portland-area employers competing for top talent have a hard time retaining African American hires, who often can’t bear the social and cultural isolation of a metro area that is less than 3 percent black.
“A lot of my friends and other minorities come here to Portland thinking of it as a stopover,” says Angel Anderson, an African American software engineer from suburban Chicago who was recruited by Intel. “They leave the state in a year or two.”
Podcast: bigWOWO Interviews Dave Porter, Activist for Bilingual Education
Dave Porter
I had the opportunity this past weekend to interview Mr. David Porter, a local Portland activist for bilingual education. Dave has been working with the Oregon State Legislature to bring a greater focus on foreign languages to our schools, and his work heavily emphasizes Mandarin Chinese immersion programs. Download our podcast here, or hear it below:
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The podcast is around 30 minutes, 13.7 megs.
Posted in parenting, Podcasts, Portland
Tagged Bilingual Education, Chinese, parenting, Portland
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Merry Christmas!
l to r: the inventor of the term "bigWOWO" and the webmaster
We’ve been snowed in for a week now. However, I’m happy since this is the first snowy Portland Christmas that I remember.
Hope everyone is safe and warm!
John Jay Talks about Chinatown and Portland
John Jay
Thanks to David, who told me about this article in yesterday’s Oregonian. It’s an excellent article about a local Asian American businessman who is taking care of business at the ground level by building up the culture of Portland. I love the fact that John Jay is working with business and government leaders in order to develop Chinatown, I love the fact that he’s concentrating on the cultural aspects of the city, I love the fact that he consciously reflects on ethnicity, and I love the fact that he has put so much time, money, and effort in making our city better. Oh, and I love the fact that Studio J was one of Thymos’s Gold Sponsors for Frank Chin. Check out this part of the interview:
The Great Portland Ramen Controversy, Part II
I blogged about an incident at my local Asian grocery a while back. In that post, I recounted the story of how I was surprised at the checkout when I was denied a discount on a package of instant ramen due to a technicality that was printed only in a non-English language. On the Thymos listserve, this became known as the “Great Portland Ramen Controversy.”
The World Outside and the Post-Election Portland Fervor
Portland
Yesterday I drove to downtown Portland for a 7 pm Thymos meeting. It was my first time out of the hospital since Tuesday when my daughter was born. Usually eastbound traffic is bad around 4:30, terrible from 5 until around 5:45, and progressively better after that. However, when I left my house around 6:30 yesterday, it was like rush hour.
Wordstock
Getting the word out to all those in Portland–Wordstock is coming up next week on November 7-9, 2008. Go here for more info. Wordstock is the biggest book festival in Portland. Last year, Adrian Tomine was here. I would’ve loved to see him talk about Shortcomings. If anyone hasn’t yet checked out Shortcomings, I can all but guarantee that you’ll like it.
I love books, I read all the time, and I’m constantly talking about books, but I don’t think I have ever been to an actual book festival. And unfortunately, depending on circumstances beyond my control, I may miss this one too. 
