Monthly Archives: August 2008

Spain’s Basketball Team Does the Fucked Up Slanty Eye Thing

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Ernie

An advertisement for the Spanish Basketball Federation that appeared in the Spanish daily sports newspaper Marca featured Spain’s 15 national team members in uniform pulling back the skin on their eyelids, with smiles on their faces. Why, yes. Yes, they … Continue reading →

Posted in Discrimination, Sports | 25 Comments

Kina Grannis and David Choi’s “My Time With You”

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Ben

Cute little song by Kina Grannis and David Choi. This collaboration seems like it was done for a JCPenney marketing campaign on Xanga called, “Get That Look“. What’s great about this is that if you follow the link on the … Continue reading →

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John Chiang takes on the Governator

Posted on August 12, 2008 by John

If you live in California, you’ve probably heard that we have a BIG (we’re talking $15 billion dollar) budget deficit. One way that Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger — a Republican — wants to reduce the deficit is to reduce the pay … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Politics | 12 Comments

Lin Miaoke: Does This Count As Human Rights Violations?

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Moye

Seriously, I want to know: Chen Qigang, the music director for the fantabulous opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics has admitted that the young, oh-so-cute girl singing China’s national anthem was actually just lip-syncing. The real singer? Not the pig-tailed … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports, WTF | 26 Comments

POP 88 #21 – Q and A with Gordon Liu

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Xxxtine

I hope you all out there are enjoying your summer and I also hope it’s not as wet as mine is. We’ve broken a record with the amount of rain that has dropped in Toronto which means I cherish each … Continue reading →

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Asian Americans Going for the Gold & thoughts on the Opening Ceremonies

Posted on August 11, 2008 by John

I was in San Francisco yesterday was happy to see a nice profile of all the Asian Americans performing in this latest article from AsianWeek.com: “The 28 Asian American Olympians featured here will walk with the hundreds of Americans representing … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Observations, Sports | 14 Comments

Gymnast Raj Bhavsar makes the U.S. Olympics Team

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Jen

U.S. Olympic alternate Raj Bhavsar, age 27, has been recently named to the U.S. Olympic team after the injury of gymnast superstar Paul Hamm, Olympic gold medalist in the all-around individual competition in 2004. Great for Raj, but unfortunately — … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | 10 Comments

pressure can make diamonds … how about gold?

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Guest Writer

From our guest blogger, Niniane: China is fixated on getting gold medals in the Olympics. The culture has always emphasized perfection. If it’s not gold, it’s worthless. If you’re not #1, then you must be crap. My cousin’s teacher once … Continue reading →

Posted in Observations, Sports | 12 Comments

Token Asian Alert: Mamma Mia! the movie

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Jen

I saw the craptastic movie Mamma Mia a few weekends ago…(which I highly recommend as long as you leave your good taste & bad manners at the door). Abba songs, Colin Firth wearing a spiked a dog collar, Meryl Streep … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | 6 Comments

James Blagden enjoys a good stereotype

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Ernie

Behold, the illustration work of Brooklyn based James Blagden. Lest you bandwagon jumping commenters start freaking out over the above illustration about how Asians are “nerdy and retarded,” Blagden has a series of similar illustrations that highlight the stereotypes of … Continue reading →

Posted in Discrimination, The Arts | 4 Comments

Japanese-American Haley Ishimatsu, 15, Olympian

Posted on August 5, 2008 by John

I caught this piece on the radio on NPR while driving home on Japanese-American, Haley Ishimatsu in “Calif. Teen Is Olympic Medal Hopeful” “One of the best U.S. prospects for a gold medal in diving is 15-year-old Haley Ishimatsu. She’s … Continue reading →

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Movie review: The Mummy – Legend of the Dragon Emperor

Posted on August 4, 2008 by minjung

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Discrimination, Movies | 3 Comments