Here at GASP!, we strongly believe in acknowledging your inner child every once in a while. So why not do so on every rainy day with this Hello Kitty Umbrella ($18)? This pastel umbrella will keep your head dry as you run between the rain drops, and jump into puddles.
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Vitor Belfort has been replaced by Pride and UFC icon Wanderlei Silva in the UFC 139 fight against Cung Le. An injury has caused Belfort to withdraw, and you can see Dana White mention the change in this interview. Silva has lost six out of his eight fights, but the Silva/Le fight still promises to be an exciting match with lots of standup action.
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Per Gizmodo, women in Thailand can skip the plastic surgery and instead, get the breast size and liposuction that they’ve always dreamed of by getting the crap beaten out of them. Some say that beauty is pain but I never imagined this would be translated literally.
Hey everyone – you have just 1 hour left to enter our Giveaway to win Opening Weekend Tickets for ‘City of Life and Death’ in San Francisco, provided by 8Asians and Landmark Theatres! Read this post for more information, and enter today!
APA Spotlight is a weekly interview of Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) community leaders. It is a spotlight on individuals who have dedicated their careers to issues surrounding the APIA community with the goal of bringing much deserved recognition to their work and cause(s).
Empowerment of all Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) has long been one of Daphne Kwok’s core values. In July 2010, President Barack Obama appointed Ms. Kwok, Chair of his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Ms. Kwok is the Executive Director of Asians & Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California (APIDC). A non-profit based in Oakland, it seeks to give a voice and a face to AAPIs with disabilities, to break down the stigma in the AAPI community about disabilities and to provide technical assistance to organizations wanting to effectively work with AAPIs with disabilities.
This is amazing:
One hundred years ago, American teachers established the English-speaking public school system of the Philippines. Now, in a striking turnabout, American schools are recruiting Filipino teachers.
Even more amazing: these Filipino teachers are leaving their families to teach… in the impoverished, public schools of Baltimore.
Filmmaker Ramona Diaz, who won an award from the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for her film Imelda, just released her latest documentary, The Learning.
“I stumbled across this amazing internet discussion thread that you have to see. It’s got comments by these teenage Asian girls, a handful of Asian guys and like a couple of white dudes.” “And I set the entire discussion thread to music.“
And thus begins everything you need to know about teenage life, interracial relations and parakeets up the ass in the catchiest four minute YouTube video ever. Man, could you imagine if an 8Asians comments thread was put to song? It would be the most repressed, angriest song ever. And then the bridge would be about double entendres between meat tenderizing and masturbation. Because that’s how 8Asians rolls.
[Hat tip: Glenda]
UPDATE 9/22/2011: Congrats to the winner, Eunice P!
City of Life and Death is a visionary drama of the 1937 Japanese-Chinese conflict known as the Nanking Massacre. Released in China in 2009 under the title 南京! 南京! (Nánjīng! Nánjīng!), this Chinese film directed by Lu Chuan (his third feature film) was a box-office success, earning RMB150m (approximately $20 million) in its first two and a half weeks of its release.
With the success of the film, Lu Chuan was also inundated with death threats because “one of the film’s protagonists, a Japanese soldier witnessing the atrocities committed by his countrymen during the occupation of Nanjing, is shown in a sympathetic light,” according to the New York Times.
In fact, many people assumed the movie would have been banned by the government because of its graphic scenes of rape and murder by Japanese soldiers, including mass executions, decapitated heads, cartloads of naked corpses and a child being thrown from a window to her death. The film made it to release after it had endured a lengthy analysis by Chinese censors, waiting six months for script approval, and another six months for approval of the finished film.
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Usually, slugs are one of the things that you absolutely want to stay away from (unless you’re armed with a hefty dose of salt). But with these personalized Hug Me Slugs ($34), you might just change your tune. You get to choose the color of the slug and its heart, and each one measures twelve inches. Just be careful not to take it outside where real slugs can see it–it might convince them to come by more often.
By Ken
The community of San Marino, the affluent neighborhood in the San Gabriel valley of California was papered with white separatist literature recently, with a resident reporting that her and her neighbors found postcards placed in their mailboxes calling for an end to affirmative action with the plea that “White People Need Jobs too.” The opposite side of the flier asks that white people love their race.
Why San Marino? With over 50% of the nearly 13,000 residents Asian Pacific Islander, the target perhaps becomes clear.
On Monday night, 2 Broke Girls premiered on CBS and, I must say, that it is one of my favorite shows of the fall TV season so far — mainly because it’s a comedic jab on rich and overprivileged people.
The show merges retro gal pal comedies like Laverne and Shirley and combines it with Odd Couple sensibility and throws it into the hyper-urban borough of 21st century Brooklyn (Williamsburg to be exact). Kat Dennings’s Max is a snarky, no-nonsense independent woman who ends up befriending Beth Behrs’ billionaire heiress who recently lost everything. The two work at a greasy spoon diner in the thick of hipsterville and they have a Korean boss (played by Matthew Moy) with what seems to be a stereotypical portrayal of an Asian: broken English, dorky Osh Kosh B’Gosh for adults wardrobe, and a wide-eyed naive view of America. In other words, a FOB. Way harsh, right?
Not necessarily.
I have an Australian accent. Having lived in Australia for over 20 years, I’ve surprised people when I meet then face-to-face after talking to them over the phone and we usually have the following exchange:
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