#9. The Eternal Smile, by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim

...is, we can gather from her name, Asian (and presumably Korean).  Kim's drawing style...s not that she makes an unlikely Asian woman: she's small and dark-haired...drawing-style thing reminds me of another Asian-North American artist, Bryan Lee O'Malley...looking at his characters whether they're Asian or not; you need to figure it...led to my reading a character as Asian who was actually white.  So... anyway,...

Daikon and Carrot Pickle

Recipe: Daikon and Carrot Pickle From: The New York Times , April 7, 2009, adapted from Into the Vietnamese Kitchen by Andrea Nguyen Makes: About 3 cups. 1 large carrot, peeled and cut into thick matchsticks 1 lb. daikon radishes, each no larger than 2 inches in diameter, peeled and cut into thick matchsticks 1 tsp. salt 2 tsp. plus 1/2 c. sugar 1-1/4 c. distilled white vinegar ...

Anti-Asian Hate Crime

http://www.racewire.org/archives/2009/06/david_kaos_murder_shows_antias.html The part at the end about extreme sexual objectification as a rationale for sexual assault is particularly chilling. especially given the "mainstreaming" of Rice Kinging a la this awful peice of fetish-rationalization masquerading as "non-fiction" in Salon.

For those of you that still call Asian/Inuit influences in Avatar the last Airbender "Ambigous"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKTvFhRbBt8 http://www.racebending.com/essayinimages.php http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/polar/inuit_image_gallery.html&edu=high

By way of Twitter comes this nifty little article about Asian Cinema in the US. Exit the dragon discusses the current state of Asian cinema in the US and where it all went horribly wrong. It's an interesting, if not a bit disheartening, article. Speaking of disheartening things.. No apology for CIA ...

enjoy

...them busy or kill them all. So the derivative of the copious atomic bomb testing in the western United States, Oceania, and eastern Asia meant that almost all of the American, Australian, Russian, and pan-Asian "spawn points" where babies begin to from out of the rocks, soil, and plant life (dumb idea, but all I have right now) were all disrupted, basically destroying the ludicrous infant state of...

pandemonium over a pandemic

... from birds. that past pandemics have mostly been wrongly attributed to places (spanish flu, hong kong flu, asian flu, mexican flu, etc.); the joke in the WHO is that the reason for this is that we ... ratios of vaccination (1 in 3 people have gotten it), while in the philippines, as most southeast asian countries, only less than 1 in 1,000 have been vaccinated (although this will change with the ...

Without Colors

...Regarding Margie. And possibly Kill Gil, because it pisses me off that much. Burning Question: So, when are we going to see Kanchanaburi Jones? I was going to ask why we don't see American (insert random Asian movie here), but wasn't that the Depareted? And the Ring. And the Grudge. And there's a rumor about a Kontroll remake, but that's a (condescending voice) ruuu-mor. I thought of another one...

24 июня / ср / Afterparty концерта MANU CHAO + FUN>DA>MENTAL

...", и вообще много где еще главный. Он не только музыкант и продюсер, но основатель музыкального движения Asian Underground и лейбла Nation Records - именно благодаря подвижничеству Аки появились такие проекты как Asian Dub Foundation, Transglobal Underground, Loop Guru, State Of Bengal. Как диджей Аки собирает толпы по всему...