8 Asians

Those who talk to me on a regular basis know that I’ve spent far too much time sequestered at home satisfying my obsessive interest in culinary adventures by watching a crapload of Food TV.
And then you’ll hear me talk shit about Bobby Flay.
My husband thinks I dislike him because he wears a gold watch. He [...]

I just really wanted to share this project that I worked on with my very good friend Dino Ignacio.

When it comes to independent films on Asian American identity, all I can say is that I’m very proud of this piece of work.

For those fine folks interested in the arts and you’re around in San Francisco this next week, it’s the 10th Anniversary of Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture: a whole slew of fabulous events which will showcase great artists, performances, film, and other creations by emerging Asian Pacific American (APA) artists. It’s fun for the [...]

Something like 10 years ago my adventure in blogging started. I blame Ernie mostly and other regular writers in the APA linkrings (remember those?) who, at the time, encouraged my willingness to rant about things stupid, have occasional anthropomorphic conversations with body parts, eviscerate the previous night’s date, or wax giddy and silly about the [...]

So Hubbycakes and I got back from a spontaneous outing to the Lee Neighborhood Theater in the outer Richmond this evening for some brain fluff movie fun times.

“What should we go see?”
“I dunno, Mongol?”
“Eh, too much subtitling and thinking, I think.”
“Lookie — this review here calls the Mummy “dumb, but fun.”
“Kinda like your ex?”
“Zing.”

So, with [...]

I admit it. I’ve been obsessively watching this season’s So You Think You Can Dance and while I have some favorites and the show has progressed from Auditions to the final ten, I’ve been really excited to see two very different and versatile dancers progress through the program: Mark Kanemura hailing from Honolulu, [...]

In yet a grand statement to the quality of sensitivity and intelligence that G.W. Bush is so well known for, I’ve come across this splendid piece from the Huffington Post that expresses his feelings towards the Philippines and Filipino-Americans. This statement was said to the PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES:

PRESIDENT BUSH: Madam President, it is [...]

Just days before South Korea’s 9th Annual Pride festival, famed transgender popstar Harisu got married in complete traditional flair.
Harisu, considered a world famous beauty who made early international fame for her modeling during the 2006 World Cup, tied knot with rapper Micky Jung in Seoul on May 19.
Harisu is officially the second person on [...]