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All political inclinations aside, I thought this was interesting: Barack Obama has a page on AsianAvenue.com!
First, let me just get this out of my system. AsianAvenue.com is still around? Huh. Jenn from reappropriate echoed my thoughts when she wrote:
Doesn’t anyone else remember way back when AsianAve was the meat-market for the tween APIA community? When it was all about girls and boys dolling up in their clubb-y best, frost-tipped hair and all, to pose all pouty-lipped for the camera, and then try to get into each others’ cyber-pants? Does no one else get a little twinge of je ne sais quoi at the idea of Obama jumping into that fray of overwrought adolescence?
It all kind of blows my mind.
Hahaha! It totally blows my mind too.
Now on a more serious note, all of the politicians are on MySpace now. It’s the new way to reach younger, more technically-inclined audiences. I think it’s pretty smart too, though the low barriers-to-entry mean hi-jinx can ensue, such as Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis. voting to fund studies of “the sex lives of Vietnamese prostitutes.”
Aside from Obama, Hilary Clinton has also made inroads into the Asian American community. But she doesn’t have an AsianAvenue.com page yet… c’mon Hilary, don’t you want to be a part of that tween APIA meat-market? Hehe.
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Its funny because Mr Obama went to grad school at occidental so he probably was up at the club.
Asianave.com is part of a number of other people of color websites located on the same server. Blackplanet.com is one of these. Worst of all it seems to be moderated by some mix of past aa mods but mostly white people hidden behind anime profile pictures. Which is why the general feel is not as openly inviting to the general aa public. Imho
Its funny because Mr Obama went to grad school at occidental so he probably was up at the club.
Asianave.com is part of a number of other people of color websites located on the same server. Blackplanet.com is one of these. Worst of all it seems to be moderated by some mix of past aa mods but mostly white people hidden behind anime profile pictures. Which is why the general feel is not as openly inviting to the general aa public. Imho
Haha! I don't know if they give you a way to cancel your account, but I suppose you could remove your pic and just not log on to AsianAve anymore. But if you do that, you won't be able to add Barack as a buddy too! ;-)
Haha! I don't know if they give you a way to cancel your account, but I suppose you could remove your pic and just not log on to AsianAve anymore. But if you do that, you won't be able to add Barack as a buddy too! ;-)
Ok i just want to say for shits and giggles I signed up for an AsianAve page. It had no information on it at all, I posted the first pic of myself I came across in My Pictures folder, which didn't even show my face at all, and bam. I get 12 notes in my inbox within the next 2 days and 21 freakin' buddy invites, all gross disgusting icky yicky men! EW!!!!!!
Now how do I cancel my account? Goddammit.
Ok i just want to say for shits and giggles I signed up for an AsianAve page. It had no information on it at all, I posted the first pic of myself I came across in My Pictures folder, which didn't even show my face at all, and bam. I get 12 notes in my inbox within the next 2 days and 21 freakin' buddy invites, all gross disgusting icky yicky men! EW!!!!!!
Now how do I cancel my account? Goddammit.
Except over the speed bumps. But if you say a Hail Mary maybe the car won't get stuck!
Except over the speed bumps. But if you say a Hail Mary maybe the car won't get stuck!
And it'll have neon lights and stickers all over it. Because stickers make a car go faster.
And it'll have neon lights and stickers all over it. Because stickers make a car go faster.
And his Acura has tinted windows and a spoiler and is lowered so far that he can't drive over speed bumps.
And his Acura has tinted windows and a spoiler and is lowered so far that he can't drive over speed bumps.
Nice. Next thing you know he'll be outside an Asian club in LA wearing a wife beater, smoking cigarettes, staring someone down, driving in his Acura RSX.
Nice. Next thing you know he'll be outside an Asian club in LA wearing a wife beater, smoking cigarettes, staring someone down, driving in his Acura RSX.
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