When a Disney teenybopper alum gets knocked up, it’s like discovering a unicorn has been living in your backyard grazing on your snozzberry bushes. So when word got out in August that Brenda Song was pregnant with Trace Cyrus’s (a.k.a. Miley’s bro a.k.a. a Marilyn Manson/Joan Jett hybrid) baby, my elation went through the roof.
But alas, it was all a farce.
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If Joseph Hyungmin Son looks familiar, it’s because you’ve seen him throw a shoe on the big screen. Best known as Random Task on Austin Powers (yeah, baby), Son will now be taking on a new role behind bars for life.
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Foxes have long factored into myths and fairy tales, and their furry cuteness has been photographed multiple times. Now, you can carry around a reminder of this popular animal with a Red Fox Felt Necklace ($49). Handmade, your new friend comes on a copper chain in the lariat style.
Though smoking is on the decline in America, “social smoking” is increasing for Asian Americans. According to the American Lung Association, APAs have the lowest smoking rates among adults. However, that doesn’t tell us the full story of the dangers of Asian American youth smokers.
Part of my day job is to put on public events so I’m constantly looking for new party ideas. One popular party idea (at least according to the Internet) is an “Asian” themed party. The first time I heard about such a theme party, I cringed.
I recently ran into G-Wrex and Goldenchyld of The Bangerz at a wedding I attended. Goldenchyld mentioned that The Bangerz were performing at the 2011 Voodoo Experience Music Festival in New Orleans. He was pretty excited, as other acts at Voodoo Experience include Soundgarden, Blink 182, Social Distortion, Snoop Dogg, and Fatboy Slim. Goldenchyld said that they haven’t played anything as big before. I think it is quite an achievement for Asian Americans that a musical form, turntablism, that they pioneered is part of such a large music festival. If their upcoming performance is anything like their eclectic mix of Taiko and Turntablism, they should put on a great show.
Voodoo Experience 2011 is from October 28 through October 30 at City Park in New Orleans. The Bangerz are performing on Friday, October 28, and you can find out The Bangerz specific Voodoo Experience information here.
Last week, a video surfaced online of a Chinese theme park showing off their new game: a real life Angry Birds where players can use a giant slingshot to throw stuffed birds at targets. Of course, it’s completely illegal and Rovio, the game company responsible for the insanely popular mobile game, had nothing to do with it.
A new report from the Institute for Financial Literacy shows that over the last five years (from 2006 to 2010), Asian Americans have had the largest increase in filings for bankruptcies, essentially doubling over the last five years. This is compared with Hispanics, which rose 33%, African Americans who saw a decrease of 26% in the same period, and Caucasian/White filings essentially remained constant through the period. It’s another sign that Asian Americans were and continue to be especially hard hit by the recent economic downturn.
The Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing and Indonesia’s The Raid has already been chosen as an “Official Selection” and as THE action flick of the fest — probably because it is dripping with violence, point-blank gunshots, bullets ripping through flesh and, of course, the wonderful country of Indonesia.
That said, enter in your date of birth so you can enjoy the grit and blood of the red band trailer above.
Based on the trailer, I have no idea what this movie is about. All I know is that it has guns, frenetic fight scenes, people in military uniforms, a guy bashing another guy’s face into a wall multiple times, and LOTS of badassness. Because of that, it doesn’t need a plot.
Researchers from UCLA have determined that children as young as second graders recognize stigma based on their ethnicity, and feel more anxious based on the stigma they receive. I could have told you the same thing based on my experiences with my own daughter who hasn’t even reached the second grade yet. She’s had anxiety about being different since pre-school, and I’m hoping it doesn’t get any worse. I’ve already written about her anxiety around her different sounding Chinese last name.
In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi plant disaster, Teijin Chemicals has developed a polyester resin that will glow blue in the presence of radioactivity. This product, Scintirex, will help push forward cheaper radioactivity detection equipment: “Scintirex ‘will help to reduce the total cost of radiation detectors by slashing the production cost of scintillators to one tenth or less of current levels,’ the company said in a statement.”
Our love for dancing Asian kids is well documented, but we haven’t seen such a great South Asian kid dancing video go viral until now. It’s a perfect combination of what makes a great viral video… amazing moves, catchy music, and of course an (almost) naked fat kid dancing in his underwear.
Meet Akshad (in his original unedited video) dancing to ‘Dhinka Chika’ from the recent Bollywood movie “Ready” (Hindi: रेडी, Reḍī) starring Salman Khan and Asin.
I love this video so much, that I’ll even do a little 8Asians math for you:
Chubby dancing Asian kid + wearing next to nothing + an extra dose of sassy acrobatics
= Akshad
Awesome.
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