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The Generation Issue
Celebrate Hyphen's tenth anniversary with Issue 25, featuring the legendary George Takei.
Hyphen Lynks: Amelica! Fuck Yeah! Edition
My countly tis of dee
aZnAmelica so solly
Of dee I sing:
- Land wheah my faddahs were lynched
- Native land Amelicans pinched
- Media dat makes my bruddahs flinch
- Evely sordid fling
Plus:
- Coulda shoula woulda been Aang.
- Guy Aoki's take on The Last Airbender
- Schooling Joel Stein on how to make fun of Indian American immigrants
- Two more teens charged in Indian American's murder
- KoreAm biz fined for sexual harrassment
- IndiAm "Doctor Death" gets seven years in Australia
Oel da lan' ov da fleeeeeeee
An' da home ov da blaaaaaaave.
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fair enough - no message...
...just an aggregation of labeled links...
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Separately, with sincerity - keep up the blogging - I'll keep my comments to myself.
keep 'em comin'
no no, johnny k. Don't stop commenting! Just don't overinterpret the juxtaposition of links. I try to link them together (hyuk) into a theme, but just for the lols.
(correction)
Kevorkian not Kerkorian
huh.
Hmm. Independence Day. Marking the birth of a nation - "Amelica", as it were.
A link entitled "Land wheah my faddahs were lynched", which reveals that "The success the Chinese found in Sacramento would have been impossible without the support of their European American neighbors." Hey, that's deep. So wait - is this some kind of pro-Amerika (sic) message wrapped in an Azn cookie? Wow.
But what to make of the Indian American links? Well, hmm - some Indian Americans are victims (of Joel Stein's one-page essay and murderous assailants), some are casting non-Asians in Asian roles (Media dat makes my bruddahs flinch), some are Republicans in the South (Evely sordid fling), and some are themselves literally guilty of killing others...in Australia.
I think maybe I get it - Indian Americans are as American (or perhaps Swedish) as Jack Kerkorian and Warner Oland? Their oppression (?) has driven them to...umm...criminal, right-wing behavior? As in the Stockholm syndrome? (there's that Swedish connection again!) Wow.
But hold on - there's a Chinese American wife in Afghanistan, and a Korean American business guilty of sexual harassment (one r, not two). Ok, hold on - maybe there's a message there about Asian Americans taking part in the subjugation of their Islamic brethren, and treating women as second-class citizens. What could be more appropriate for this day?
Well, well, well. Amelica, indeed. Funny how there's an "r" in bruddahs, yeah? And the parody of two separate songs ("America", "Star Spangled Banner"). It's not inconsistency, it's part of the deeper message, yes?
An illustration of Kim Jong-il "Dear Leader", and this Independence Day post - "Dear Reader" - full of lynks, very full. Very deep.
It's just links
Dude, it's just a links post. If I had a "message," I would have written a message post.