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For those of you in the Los Angeles area on Mother’s Day, the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena will have a series of readings entitled Chinese American Stories: My Mother. While I’m sure there’ll be a fine case of Chinese Americans who will also share stories for and about their mother - God knows I have a couple - of special interest is our very own Joz, who will be reading this AWESOME story about walnuts.
With her Mom in attendance. Awesome.
Sunday, May 11, 2-4pm
Mother’s Day Performance
“Chinese American Stories: My Mother” A presentation of community, family and personal memories collected in a writing/oral history workshop by playwright Henry Ong.
Free with museum admission; call 626.449.2742 ext. 31 to RSVP.Pacfic Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101Museum Admission
$7 for adults
$5 for students/seniorsParking: Free parking is available in museum parking lot, located on corner of Los Robles and Union in Pasadena
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As you guys might have noticed by now, there’s a banner ad at the top of 8Asians.com. While all advertising usually sucks, I installed an open advertising engine (OpenX) to the website which means that it’ll be easier for me to rotate non-Google ads on 8Asians.com and, hopefully, other sites affiliated with 8A such as Pop 88 and my.8asians.com.
This also means I can put in banners of stuff not about shameless capitalism. Why do I bring this up? Because if you know of any community non-profit groups, organizations, bands or events that would like to get the word out, I’ll be more than happy to rotate your banner in. Right now banner sizes are available in half-banner (234×60) format, but the full vertical banner rotation should be coming soon as well. If this is something your group or event would be interested in, just let me know at the contact page.
And a quick word of thanks to Asianmommy.com, which sparked the idea in the first place and is the first official member of this weird experiment trying to balance community and a need to offset my hosting costs. 
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We just launched The 8Asians Network - a community platform that provides forum discussions, member profiles, blog posts, photo, video and audio sharing and social networking capabilities for the 8Asian.com community. (That’s a fancy way of just saying “we added discussion boards and a lot of other cool stuff.”)
As a bonus, you can now add your user photo to comments on this blog if you are already a member of The 8Asians Network as well - just enter your 8Asians Network e-mail address and password in the comment fields. (You can still post comments as usual by just leaving the password field blank, if you wish.)
Just like everything else, we’ll be experimenting with this community platform over the next couple of weeks. If you have any questions or comments, let me know! Preferably in The 8Asians Network. Heh.
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2007 was a big year for 8Asians.com - and when we say a “big” year, we actually mean our very first year as a website. As the year is about to end, we figured it would be fun to take a look at the year behind us and list the most popular posts of this year. To do this, we calculated some statistics: Permalink views, Homepage Views, Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks. What you find to be the most popular posts of the year may surprise you. Or maybe not.
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On behalf of everyone here at 8Asians.com, I’d like to wish you guys a very Merry Christmas, or whatever the hell you guys celebrate.
Oh, and another small footnote: 8Asians.com was pretty much started around a year ago today, to humble beginnings - basically sending out a couple of co-workers and friends if they were interested in starting a blog about “Asian American stuff.” One year and over 50,000 unique visitors and 150,000 hits to the website later, we’ve gotten mentions on Spiegel and Newsweek and have had our first in-person happy hour, not to mention our fair share of drama, whether it be from angry Asian Americans or angry Germans. Something to piss somebody off, right? Right.
I would publicly like to thank the 17 (!!!) other bloggers who have helped out with 8Asians.com, past and present - in particular, Mike and Genghis for the initial support during that fateful night in the work cafeteria, and Christine for joining forces with her fantastic podcast, POP 88. Finally, I would like to thank you, 8Asians.com reader, for making the site what it is today. Here’s to another year, whatever the hell it will bring.
(Photo credit: augapfel on flickr)
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Here are the blog entries that were most popular this month. Did you miss any of these?
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A big thank you to everyone who showed up at Dan’s Bar and Grill last Thursday to witness 8Asians.com’s first happy hour. Drinks were had, Canadian candy was distributed, and past and present writers for 8A and did what Asian people do best: get drunk off half a beer. (And might I add, some people were trashed, but I won’t name names.) A special shout out also goes to Keith Kamasugi, who organizes hapihour.org and, thus, this event, as well as the 8A’ers who flew in from out of town to attend: Joz and Xxxtine.
For those of you using RSS readers that can’t see embedded iframe’s, you can view photographs of the event here. And if you use flickr and took photos of the event, don’t forget to tag it “8asians”!
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Hey everyone! Just a reminder that tomorrow is the 8Asians.com hapihour, in conjunction with our friends at hapihour.org. Come get completely smashed delightfully social with a bunch of 8A writers, past and present! If you’re in the San Francisco area, swing by - it’ll be at 6:30pm at Louie’s Bar and Grill. (Or check the embedded google map.) You can RSVP for the event on Facebook or Upcoming.
There is a $10 suggested donation at the door, a portion of the proceeds go to the Karitika Review.
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