Sorry I've been MIA from the blog (not that I assume you've even noticed). I've been apartment hunting and packing for the last few weeks. Finally moved this weekend. Now that the madness is (mostly) over, I can pay a little more attention to the rest of the world.
I've lived in this last apartment for 3 1/2 years, which is the longest I've ever lived anywhere, save Mom & Dad's. When I came to California from Texas 4 years ago, I didn't have too much with me. I had moved alot during college (once, 7 times in a year, yes 7), so I had gone against the pack rack tendencies so prevalent in my family and shed a lot of stuff.
I think I need to do that again, cuz man, it was a bitch to move. I've got a lot of crap now. I completely filled a truck and felt embarrassed about it. On top of my own stuff, Hyphen has no office and most of its stuff was stored in my apartment. The new apartment is smaller, so I've been running around, trying to divvy up the goods among different staff. Still, I had to move plenty of Hyphen boxes.
Continue reading "Of Moving & Magazines (& Sandra Oh)"
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Egads! It's the last day of Asian Heritage Month. Well, i rather resent that designation because to me, every month is Asian heritage month. Just like every day is My Day, a Woman's Day (take that, Peter Gabriel!). I mean, isn't ownership implied --when a white man tells us it's our month, it means the months are his to give, right? and it means the rest of of the months are white man's months. unless it's secretary's day, or collect flyswatters week, or bike to work day.
Yes, I get it. We have our special month so that documentaries will get aired on PBS and we have some special time to schedule AA arts festivals and such. And it's obviously necessary to get attention at some time of the year, so why not May?
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Hello from Wisconsin, the cheese state! And when I write "cheese", I mean it metaphorically, as well as literally. I wandered to the state capitol building yesterday (I'm in Madison, natch), drawn there by the sight of crowds and the sound of punk rock. There, at the weekly farmers market, I saw a band composed of 10 - 14 year olds, playing a remarkably competent cover of Green Day's "Longview", with a blonded woman not much older than I am -- very obviously one of the bandmembers' mothers -- dancing away furiously as he sang "My mother says to get a job but she don't like the one she's got."
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The US Pan Asian American Chamber of Conference held the largest national business conference for AAs at the beginning of May. Guess what they called it? CelebrAsian 2005!
This may not be the first or last time I'll complain about this, but people! Come on! Making -tion and -cion words into "blahblahAsian" is NOT clever! Not original! Not funny! In fact, I'll go so far as to say it makes us Asians look like big loser dorks. ImaginAsian? InnovAsian? Think a little harder please!
Continue reading "The Asian American Business World"
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The Colonial Me was born on distant shores and flew on a jet plane to a parallel life in a new land, wailing and shitting her diapers. There, a culture rich in means, but starved in education, rejected her with television and gap-filled history books, ravished her heritage with stereotypes and unbelievably corny magazine advertisements. They married and had many misunderstandings. Apparently, true multifculturalism had yet to be invented.
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With the hype of imminent summer mega-blockbusters like "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith," fresh in both our minds and the headlines, it's hard to imagine the entertainment industry (or at least some parts of it) are suffering:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/16/DDG0VCP0031.DTL .
The fun times never end!
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From Livia Ching, one of Hyphen's copy editors
I don't have a whole lot of free time to surf the Internet so when I do I try to make it count. It's always been fun to see what new scandals are revealed through the paper trails of the rich and famous and notoriously stupid on The Smoking Gun.
I was reading about Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride and about the mess she made in Georgia. A few of the emails that came in about what a "bowser" she is and how the search was a total waste of time were amusing. I laughed when a couple people wrote in to suggest she get medical attention for hyperthyroidism because her photo showed her eyeballs popping out of her face.
However, when I got to e-mail #23, I stopped laughing.
Continue reading "Who You Calling Oriental?"
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Did y'all see John Cho the other week on Grey's Anatomy? He plays a sick dude. A little sad for a guy who has starred in movie... But apparently is not quite a movie star.
It got me to thinking, because last week I interviewed Damien Nguyen, star of The Beautiful Country. You haven't heard of him yet because all he's done is background gangster guys. The film will release July 7 (also starring Bai Ling, see Hyphen issue 7 for the interview) but Damien did a really great job.
Continue reading "Harold and Kumar Update, And Other Representation News"
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Photo by Jay Jao.
Wow, thanks for all of you who came out to the Alpha Bar this Saturday to celebrate the release of issue 6. What a great turnout! We hope you had a good time. I know we did! To see photos taken by Jay Jao click here. Enjoy!
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Need I say more? Let's just bask in the glow of that achievement for a moment ...
Continue reading "Asian American Offends Ann Coulter!"
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From Sonny Le, Advisory Board member
Here we go again! The Atlantic magazine, a must-read for the enlightened intelligentsia and political junkies of America, has resurrected the "Yellow Peril," or at least that is what its latest cover looks like.
Continue reading "Yellow Peril Resurrected by Atlantic Monthly"
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Got back yesterday morning from Slant in Houston. (That's the Asian American film festival I curate down there.) And by morning, I mean 2 a.m. (California time). My flight was delayed on account of big Texas thunderstorms that were cracking the sky and shaking rain all over. Thanks for everyone who made it out to the films, in spite of the rain. And thanks to the Aurora Picture Show for hosting my fest for 5 years now. They are truly one of my favorite spots in all of Houston. They show all sorts of new media and are housed in an old church building that was built in 1928. Check them out if you're ever in Houston.
Continue reading "Sex & Party (not together though)"
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This week I had a half million dollars to give away and I had to decide who, among the hundred people asking for it, was most worthy. How was your week?
Continue reading "How To Write a Grant Proposal"
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It doesn't rival Zhang Ziyi's appearence on Newsweek's cover, but fellow actress Bai Ling says that she was cut out of the upcoming Star Wars: Episode III after she agreed to appear wearing just a light saber in Playboy.
Continue reading "Bai Ling in Playboy, but not Star Wars"
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You don't have to be a professor to figure out that there's rarely an Asian American on prime-time TV, but some UCLA researchers went ahead and did another study to verify the obvious.
The new study shows that Asian Americans are indeed underrepresented on prime-time television.
Continue reading "Colorless TV, at least for Asian Americans"
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I have a confession to make. I know this will get me kicked out of the progressive-journalist club, but I actually sorta like Newsweek. (Nooooooo! Yes.) It's true. Once a year on my birthday I eat ribs, twice a year in an airport I'll read Cosmo, and once a week I get my free (thanks, KQED!) Newsweek. It's so readable, so mainstream.
Continue reading "Pretty Chinese Girl (Zhang Ziyi) on the Cover of Newsweek"
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I was making my leisurely Sunday way up from a recumbent position when my roommate came running into my room. "Hyphen's on tv!" she cried, and ran back into the living room.
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