Sorry I haven't been updating as often. Things have been busy. This is a good thing though, right? I don't mean for my blog to be only about peegs peegs peegs and the occasional political/socio/cultural complaint. What else have I been doing...well...proactively this year I finally could afford--for the first time ever--to buy presents for a toy drive. So I've had a lot of fun doing that. ...
The day kind of came and went, but it's been a year since Entertainment Weekly broke the casting news that the characters of color from Avatar: The Last Airbender would be played by white actors on December 10th, 2008. Remember this? Since then, a fan letter writing movement at aang_aint_white has spawned this livejournal community, a facebook group, and an official website ...
Winston and Guinness (formerly Fry & Yancy and/or Franklin & Bart) were adopted last weekend by a wonderful couple. They have settled in nicely with their new family. The boys really have come a long way from their beginning as baby strays abandoned in a park with their dad and seeing their mom hit by a car. They have already figured out where the kitchen, the fridge, and the food comes from in...
An article I wrote about two Asian American UCLA Bruins currently fighting leukemia, "Bone marrow drivin' to save lives," was published in Pacific Ties, the Asian American News Magazine at UCLA . Click here to read the article in .pdf This is my last rough draft before turning the article in. To read the article as printed go to the . pdf . by Marissa Minna Lee Fifth year UCLA ...
jedifreac mentioned something in another thread that totally got my attention: Sometimes the two pigs will decide that one pig will be "squeaker of the house" so that may be what has happened. Wheeking is a noise made to attract human attention. ohmigod that's TOTALLY happened with our herd! If you're rummaging around in the kitchen and then emerge with a bowl of veggies, here's what ...
Two months ago I mused and wangsted on why people cheat. It mostly was speculation on why someone would want to cheat on their partner since I couldn't (and kind of still can't) wrap my head around it...why anyone would be so roundabout sneaky, willing to hurt others, etc. I don't get it. I guess I'm also scared. I never want to be cheated on, I never want to be the cheater, I never want to be ...
... in Hollywood at this point." "Being a white male in the business of Hollywood is NOT easy. There are programs and incentives to help everyone except white males" But as jedifreac writes in racebending : These timely quotes appeared in fandom wankery today just as Variety reported on the WGA West's 2009 Hollywood Writers Report. "Little diversity progress among writers." (whoops.)...
Hi all! Our very own jedifreac has been featured this week as Angry Asian Man's Reader of the Week! In the post she says: My biggest project right now is with Racebending.com ; we're a group of fans rallying against blatant employment discrimination in Hollywood. We're very vocally protesting how Paramount discriminated against actors of color in The Last Airbender. We just ...
Well, as you all know, Saturday was Halloween... Ken & I dressed up like Chun-Li and Ken Masters from Street Fighter . Yes, we were one of those couples. I baked a pumpkin pie-brownie covered in candy corn to bring to the party...it was kind of on a last minute whim and I didn't want it to be too fattening (hence the pumpkin instead of vegetable oil) so I slapdashed it together....
On Sunday, October 11th, Ken and I met my volunteer coordinator, Susan, at the West Los Angeles animal shelter when it opened at 11AM. She was there to bring us our new foster pair, Fry and Yancy , and to check up on some newly surrendered guinea pigs. From the shelter picture online I had my suspicions about the health of one of the pigs; it looked like he had crust under his eye (a sign of ...
