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I am out for dead presidents to represent me.
Asian Hollywood Takeover in 2009!
Well, not exactly — CNN released a list of the most anticipated movies in 2009 earlier this week and surprisingly there are many Asian actors and actresses that are apart of many of these movies. Now, I’ll ignore the fact that these movies are apparently most anticipated by geeks — because you know us Asians get our panties all knotted up the wrong way when Asian and geek is mentioned in the same sentence — [...] Continue »
Ban Ki Moon: UN Secretary General by day & RAPPER by Night!
At the United Nations Association 50th anniversary gala last week the United Nation’s Secretary general Ban Ki Moon showed off his rapping skills, probably out of inspiration from one of the guests of honor, Jay-Z, who was there to be honored for his work with Water for Life. It is pretty impressive knowing that English is not the Secretary’s native language and he manage to pull this lame trick off without embarrassing himself. Even though [...] Continue »
The Wonder Girls Gets Blogged on Perez Hilton
I was originally going to title this post “Perez Hilton likes Underage Korean Girls.” BAM! How is that for yellow journalism? But contrary to that headline, Perez Hilton, the hardest working person in gossip business, recently posted about “How The Koreans Do it”, the “Koreans” referencing the girl-group Wonder Girls and their newest video called “Nobody But You”. (Side note: the comment section of this particular Perez Hilton post has some interesting views, if you [...] Continue »
“It Just Isn’t Looking Like Asia’s Century”: Proof that Expats Have No Idea What They Are Talking About
Today I read an article from the Washington Post titled “So Far, It Just Isn’t Looking Like Asia’s Century,” and to be blunt, it was a bunch of generic bullshit slapped together. Joshua Kurlantzick, apparently a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy, presents the argument that this is not “Asia’s century.” The problem I have with the argument is the author’s evidence [...] Continue »
Barack Obama is a Metaphor…
“Love is a red red Rose” Metaphors are wonderful for the fact that it attempts to explain the deepest and most profound theories & ideas in a few simple words. The fact that a rose has thorns, its beautiful fragrance and aesthetic prowess, or the chance that it may shrivel and die; all the aspects of a rose hold a connection to love that can explain the intricacies of that hormonal state we call love. [...] Continue »
Obama says Asians are short…
“Obviously there are a lot of folk from Asian ancestry in Hawaii, generally the teams aren’t as tall…” – Barack Obama The quote begins at the 3:00 mark Personally I don’t find this quote offensive at all. Despite the fact that he answered Kimmel’s question of “Can you dunk” with the response that Asians “aren’t as tall” — then saying thats why he “posted up,” thereby laying the groundwork that, in fact, he can’t dunk [...] Continue »
“Chink Nigger”
Today was the unveiling of the music video for “Be a Nigger Too” by legendary Queensbridge MC Nasir Jones; better known by his one syllable moniker, or his pen name if you would, Nas. Nas created a firestorm and has come under intense criticism by naming his 10th studio album “Nigger” and then subsequently changed the title to “Untitled” under pressure from heads of the record label. Most Asian Americans have seen this controversy in [...] Continue »
Racist 1960s Comic?
I came across this 1960s comic, “Tod Holton Super Green Beret” pretty randomly; it’s about a boy during the sixties who uses a magic green beret hat to transform into a super solider with magic powers, that goes around to different countries to fight bad guys, mostly communist. And with just a glance at the cover, I immediately thought about when fellow 8asians blogger Bo brought our attention to the Racist Propaganda Cartoons during the [...] Continue »
Beijing: The Show Must Go On…
In the ancient temple of Forbidden City, Tai Miao, Nike President and CEO Mark Parker and 22 Chinese Federations unveiled their uniform collections. There were high performance shoes on display and models in their uniforms, running, playing basketball, and boxing. Looks like there was a high turnout and it seems like from the event photos that this event was open to the public.
The Empire Strikes Barack!
In no way am I voicing my political opinion, BUT I am voicing the recent foregone conclusion that Hillary Clinton will not be the Democratic candidate in the post-Bush election, even with the West Virgina win. Also, I am a HUGE Star Wars geek, an occupation that I may share with many of you, or not.
50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time!
OH MY GOD… what an INCREDIBLE way to waste 5 hours of my life. Maybe its because I’m wayyy too young, but I remember waiting for my parents to fall asleep and then sneaking to the living room to watch Saturday Night Live! and not being able to wake up for church the next day because I couldn’t stop laughing. Ahhhhhhh, those were the days… But I digress. Nerve.com and IFC.com teamed up to create [...] Continue »
North Korea: Lets Take a Tour!
Paul Koontz, who was the first VP of marketing at Netscape, gets the once in a lifetime opportunity to go visit North Korea…. with his two kids. He presents a satirical point of view, which is very refreshing, also the anecdotal aspect of this presentation points out many serious problems with infrastructure, propaganda and the self-promoting regime that has been in power.
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