Author Archives: Ernie

About Ernie

I'm the creator of 8 Asians and one of the editors. While I'm a regular blogger to the site as well, think of my role as Barbara Walters on "The View," except without the weird white hair. During the day, I'm a Developer for a major Internet company and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I've also been writing in my blog, littleyellowdifferent.com, for seven years.

Writer Dan Jenkins Thinks Golfer YE Yang is a Delivery Guy

And this weekend’s “I am an assclown” tweet goes to Golf Digest’s Dan Jenkins about Y. E. Yang, a South Korean golfer playing at the same Masters tournament as Tiger Woods this weekend: “Y.E. Yang is only three shots off … Continue reading

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Guy Asks Whether Asian or White Drunk Girls are More Annoying

34 year old Philip Huang is a self-described performance artist out of Berkeley, California, described by the East Bay Express as having “a special talent for digesting life and creating spectacle.” Yep, “creating spectacle” would be an accurate way to … Continue reading

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Links: Cosplay Performances, NYC Eats

A cosplay performer plays on the edge of reality (SF Public Press) A Google Map of the best Chinese bakeries and restaurants in NYC’s Chinatown. (via Stan and Jenny8Lee) The Definitive History of Asian Men Dating Outside Their Race (Complex) … Continue reading

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The 8Asians Writers Talk About: Asians and Sleep

Our internal e-mail lists have us discussing all kinds of stuff: Asian American identity, representation in the media, the experiences of activism in an academia setting and its progression as we transition to the working, adult world. And sometimes, we … Continue reading

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Japanese American Gunman Charged in Teacher’s Slaying

A lawyer representing a 54-year-old Japanese man who was charged Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a Pasadena art college instructor said his client had become upset after hearing his wife subjected to “a racial and sexual slur.” The charged … Continue reading

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Chinese and Doughnuts: A California Mystery

In California, you see a lot of doughnut shops that double as Chinese food restaurants – there is one down the block from my house in San Francisco, and I can think of at least three other restaurants in the … Continue reading

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Ke$ha Parody Music Video Features Asian Dude as Leia

Happy Friday, kids. Happy Friday. (Note: The Asian Dude is Eddie King of Teddie Films and the video was done for Ke$ha’s Tik Tok video contest.)

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14 Years Ago Today: Bert is Evil

It’s pretty difficult to believe if you’re an Internet junkie veteran like I am, but fourteen years ago my friend Dino Ignatio created a little website called Bert is Evil. While the original website has long been taken down, internet … Continue reading

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In Vitro Fertilization Less Successful for Asian Americans

A study by Stanford University shows that in vitro fertilization are less successful for Asian American women than white women; while Asian-American women responded to medications used to stimulate the ovaries to produce eggs at the same rates as their … Continue reading

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Tekken Movie Looks Like Tekken

We’ve had movie versions of Mortal Kombat that was kinda campy but watchable, and we’ve had movie versions of Street Fighter which were pretty bad to downright terrible. Now video gaming males from ages 18-35 — and Moye, ha ha … Continue reading

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