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12.26.06 comment ----- 12.22.06 comment ----- 12.13.06 comment ----- 12.5.06 comment ----- 11.28.06 comment It's really cool watching all these Asian faces succeeding in sports. Basketball, baseball, golf ... But my absolute favorite was watching win the CITGO Bassmaster Classic a couple of years back. He was the first ever non-American to win the title and to see this little Japanese dude surrounded by thousands of John Deere hats was surreal. Next, . ----- 11.21.06 comment Speaking of retards, have you seen Michael Richards from Seinfeld on stage? Yeah it's kinda old news but dammit if it ain't messed up. I'm so glad youtube exists. No one remembers the show Fridays that featured Michael Richards. ----- 11.14.06 comment Advertising has always fascinated me. It is a deliberate attempt to reach a specific demographic by a company based on what they know (or think they know) about that group. I see Asians in ads but they are by and large tech related (cars, cell phones and video games). That's very interesting. Asians are becoming synonymous with cutting edge modern or futuristic things. At the same time they have the traditional association with ancient things. That's really freaking cool if you ask me. ----- 11.7.06 comment ----- 10.31.06 comment ----- 10.25.06 comment ----- 10.17.06 comment ----- 10.10.06 comment Speaking of issues, Kim Jong Il has finally busted his nuclear nut. Very interested to see what happens from here. What better time to show your support for all the innocent citizens of North Korea who are about to become targets. Get you very own . ----- 10.3.06 comment Here's an update on that Survivor show that was separating the teams by race. Evidently the producers pulled the plug on the idea. ----- 9.26.06 comment I'm fascinated by science and technology. I watch that on talk about this liquid that, when introduced to damaged retinal cells in your eyes, react by regenerating those damaged cells. Crazy! I also love super destructive weapons like the ones on the show . This is probably why I've always had this fantasy about making an suit and flying around destroying things. I'll go on record and say I'm not a big fan of war, but dammit if doesn't get me going! ----- 9.19.06 comment ----- 9.12.06 comment I've been hearing from people that they would like to be able to see other people's comments about these strips. What d'ya say? Is this functionality something I should add to the site? ----- 9.5.06 comment So what happens when people get so sensitive that they can't think straight? This: A friend down in NYC was wearing a at a bar. A woman came up to him and handed him the below business card. Love it. ----- 8.29.06 comment I, for one, have never watched a single episode of Survivor but I think I'm going to have to at least check this out. Oh yeah, here's a bonus old school SAM strip from 2001 about Survivor. ----- 8.22.06 comment ----- 8.15.06 comment If you haven't already, join the orgiastic fun that is . 8.8.06 comment Wonder if they're going to ever do the movie that was planned? Funny how aging action stars get back into the ring. Biggest example: Stallone in and Rambo IV. A third Conan movie was also in the works and will still probably happen, but without Arnold. Sorry, but it HAS to be Arnold. ----- 8.2.06 But that's not the point. Besides blowing chunks, the thing that bothers me about this show is the aesthetics of it. It's called Final Fu but clearly the graphics are Japanese inspired while there are Chinese take-out menu fonts everywhere. On the flip side, it's a chance to get Asian faces on TV. But it somehow feels ... dirty. Got a chance to check out . Great stuff. It made me miss that much more. He's one of the key interviews. Also saw a short flick called about Chinese artists and Zhang Jian-Jun. Both awesome artists. ----- 7.25.06 Oh my god, is so cute! Tee-hee-hee! ----- 7.18.06 If you didn't notice the enormous, red banner to the right, I've got a couple of new shirts available for purchase at Blacklava. There's a full sized and a toddler sized for all those future Secret Asian men in your life. 7.11.06 On the one hand I can see someone totally not seeing the irony of putting . We've all done stupid things in our lives. On the other hand, this wasn't a single person's doing. A whole bunch of people at the ad agency Foote Cone Belding and BK HQ had to see this in order for it to go into production. Comps were made, proofs were sent. Someone down the line must have seen it coming and either they didn't give a crap or they really wanted to push it through and see if it actually got done. Secretly I'm hoping they knew exactly what they were doing. Kind of like Burger King's short lived "" campaign or their current "" commercials. Can it be that huge corporations are finally loosening up? 7.4.06 Here's one for the Indian peeps out there. Senator Joe Biden can eat a bag of curry dicks. ----- 6.26.06 OK, I'm all for racially mixed couples but there's something about that gets to me. There is definitely a group of white guys out there who have an unnatural love for Asian women. Check out for instance. If he's so OK with being attracted to Asian women, why does he have to have a site justifying it? At the same time it is very curious as to why there are so many more Asian women/white guy couples than the other way around. ----- 6.20.06 Seriously, why don't the people who make natural products just call their products something completely unnatural sounding. All they do is cater to the crowd that already eats that stuff anyway. If their really in it for the greater good of most people, lie a little. Call it something the fatties of the world will be attracted to: Choco-buns, Sugar Bombs, Bacon Slabs ... The same goes for the auto industry. Why do you have to call it a hybrid? Just make a hybrid engine and put it in all the cars. Hummer drivers will never buy something called a hybrid! Think of all the money you could make off of insecure little dicked guys! ----- 6.13.06 I drew all the time as a kid – in school but also a lot just for myself or with my brother. When we were at the height of our role playing game years, my brother and I would draw our characters, weapons, magical items, bio mech suits ... whatever the game called for. My characters were always white. Didn't even think twice. It was only later in life that I had to think about how people from different races look different from each other and how to draw them accordingly. I found myself over compensating. Asians had waaay slanty eyes and black characters had waaay wide noses and afros. Try this on a friend (the fewer drawing skills they have the better). Ask them to draw a face. Then ask them to draw an asian face. Then a black face. How close are they to the faces on the comic strip above? ----- 6.6.06 I used to go to car shows with my brother when I was a kid growing up in NYC. We used to make model cars and paint them up or make custom parts - usually things like machine guns and mine droppers. Years pass and he now owns a modified Mitsubishi Eclipse with a carbon fiber hood and I still don't have a driver's license. Go figure is a new movie directed by Justin Lin. A couple of years back, Lin directed a pretty important movie for the Asian American community called . While you're here, why not check out one of the best sites on the internet?. ----- 5.30.06 Hate crimes infuriate me. They are the most desparate act of ignorance I can think of. That and auditioning for the . When I read about it boggles my mind how profoundly stupid some people still are. Looking at it from the haters side, what could such a small act possibly achieve except give you a thrill? Often acts of hate are followed up by overwhelming community support. I view 9-11 as a hate crime on a massive scale. And while you could argue that that act achieved a hell of a lot, it also created a unified effort to wipe out terrorists from the face of the Earth. Theoretically anyway. What we need are more superheroes. I'm The Flash. Who knew? ----- 5.22.06 This whole thing is pretty screwed up. On the one hand we definitely need to do something about the huge number of undocumented immigrants in the country (although I've always wondered how we can count undocumented immigrants since there's no documentation of them). There are many debates about illegal vs. legal immigrant rights, fair wages and the proposed Temporary Work Program.Then there's the unreasonably long waiting lists immigrants must endure to become legal citizens. And of course the rule. ----- 5.15.06 There's a whole lotta Hollywood adopting going on. I guess it's a good thing, right. It's like some perverted lottery for the poor. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Rosie O'Donnell, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, Blake Edwards George Lucas, Kate Jackson, Calista Flockhart blah, blah, blah. The frustrating things seems to be all the people these celebrities get to pass over because, well, because they're rich. Bottom line is it's a business. ----- 5.8.06 This year I thought it would be fun to get my mom to do the strip for Mother's Day. After all, she does have some drawing skills and she can be really funny. If you didn't catch it, the last panel is a reference to that old Wendy's commercial starring where she keeps yelling "Where's the beef!" I think it's even funnier without the "the". My mom got so into doing the strip that she actually pumped out two of them in two days. I should put her on the payroll. Here's the other one: So I just got my house broken into. Can someone explain to me why a thief would just take the change out of our change jar and leave behind two 20 dollar bills in plain sight, a stack of gift cards to retail shops and Home Depot (get a new screwdriver for God's sake!), and a bunch of small electronic appliances like video cameras, digital cameras, portable DVD player ... etc. She didn't even take any good jewelry. Then she (I'm assuming it was a female blonde dwarf with a beard) leaves the doors (our neighbor got robbed too) propped open. Can someone clarify? ----- 5.2.06 May is here again and so are all the events. Wherever you live, rest assured there's some sort of festival happening. Admittedly, I don't go to many of these events. Why not? I honestly couldn't tell you but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of AAs who feel the same way. The Asian side of me is proud of the ever growing AA culture and wants to attend every event. But the American side of me is asking: Did I just type that out loud? Look! ----- 4.25.06 Any out there? I'm still on the fence about the whole thing. On the one hand I'm a firm believer in the mind, body and spirit connection, just not in that kind of way. On the other hand, some of their core belief's are fundamentally flawed in my eyes. Homosexuals are supposed to have a long and painful death waiting for them all. Mixed people (like my kid) are automatically shut out from whatever paradise was waiting for people of that race. . Yay! is back! 2,462 categorized racial slurs strong. And now they have too! ----- 4.18.06 A lot of folks give me grief about not loving this country. I get that "Go back to where you came from" crap a lot. To which I usuallly reply "Rent is too high in NYC." The fact if the matter is, this is the best country in the world. Yeah, some but it could be a . So for all of you who think I'm just hating on the US of A, . ----- 4.11.06 As I was researching this strip, I started looking into who owns and why they would pop out these God rock albums. The company that acquired Time Life is . The founder and CEO is . Timothy Collins is on the board for the . Collins is also a member of the . None of this proves anything but it makes me uneasy. Just like this banner at the site. AAHAHHH!! Benny Hinn is going to feed on INDONESIAN SOULS!!! RUUNN!!! Religion has produced a lot of good things. It has also produced some of the creepiest things known to mankind. To me, is one of them. It just reeks of mind control. But there is a little part of me that is jealous of people who can let it all hang out and lose their shit at one of these concerts. Like those people who faint when slaps them upside the head. God bless us all. ----- 4.4.06 We've all done it – our name just to see what pops up. I admit I do it every now and then just to see where the strip is popping up and who's talking about it. Much to my suprise when I did an search I came up with some results I never saw before, including a . I was amazed to see it wasn't a flame post roasting my yellow ass. The one thing that pisses me off is that there are specific strips they were talking about but you can't see the images unless you register with the site. I really didn't have any urge to register there. They said I actually made some valid points then proceeded to make fun on my eyebrows. And the whole time they were using smiley face modicons. Bizarre. ----- 3.28.06 Adoption has always fascinated me. It blows my mind to think of what it would be like to find out you were adopted and at what point in your life something like that would start to dawn on you. Then after all that, you start to do a little research and find out some of the political and cultural back stories as to why you were adopted. Then you get the urge to find your biological parents. Maybe I have it all wrong. Maybe being adopted is nothing like that. I can only imagine. If you were adopted I'd love to hear your story. Here are some interesting articles on Asian adoptions at the , and . ----- 3.21.06 ----- 3.14.06 Speaking of figures, I've been working on a series of urban vinyl style sculptures based on Asian icons for the show this Saturday. I'm doing Bruce Lee, Yao Ming and Tetsuo from Akira. Also got some 1" buttons on the way! Thanks for all the folks joining page too. ----- 3.7.06 ----- 3.1.06 On that note, anybody else miss the ? Anyone know what happened to it? ----- 2.23.06 ----- 2.17.06
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the movies. Check out the official site in , it's much more ironic. Some people are upset about the stereotyping in the movie. There's a dimwit redneck, a firely latino, a stoner, Guido, Luigi, it goes on. I could give two shits about that. I just in on the fun. How about a Japanese car that can't drive very well. Or has a small tailpipe? Hell, remember in ? He played a Japanese engineer for Mitsubishi and drove a car full of futuristic gadgets. He even spoke Chinese in the movie. Nobody gave a crap. It's just good old fashioned ignant (sic) entertainment!