tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17141805298903921732008-01-24T08:28:02.060-08:00angry asian manBlogger1509125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714180529890392173.post-73801556013091634242008-01-24T01:04:00.002-08:002008-01-24T01:06:54.423-08:00

This is a great story on the very first hockey player of Asian descent in the NHL, a Canadian guy named Larry Kwong who played for about a minute in a game for the New York Rangers in 1948: First NHL player of Asian descent beat long odds. Unfortunately, after that one minute of play, he never got another chance at a professional game, not even to sit on the bench. Today, sixty years later,

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ASPIRE is a Boston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering Asian American high school and college girls with career development and leadership skills through shared experience and mentoring. They recently announced the first annual ASPIRE Outstanding Woman of the Year Award, celebrating outstanding Asian American women making a difference in their communities. The winner will be

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According to a new agreement reached this week between the United States and Vietnam, Vietnamese who entered the U.S. illegally after 1995 could now be forced to return to Vietnam: Illegal Vietnamese Face US Deportation. The deal has apparently been under negotiation for ten years. Vietnam had previously been reluctant to accept citizens back, and many immigrants in the U.S. have been living

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Check it out. Funny man Steve Byrne is competing in Comedy Central's Stand-Up Showdown 2008. You can vote for him once a day this week until Saturday. Then Comedy Central will air the top 20 comedians' Comedy Central Presents special in the order you voted most popular, all day this Sunday, January 27th, starting at noon. Let's make my man Steve number one! Vote for him here. Just don't

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This is for Korean American folks in the Bay Area... I recently heard from Christen Lee, Vice President of Political Affairs at the Korean American Coalition of San Francisco (KACSF), an all-volunteer organization committed to incrasing civic and political participation among the Bay Area Korean American Community. On Febrary 5 (Election Day), KACSF will conduct a poll-monitoring project in

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Forget America's Next Top Model. Now in its 28th year, the Ford Supermodel of the World competition recently gathered fifty finalists in New York from around the world to compete for a $250,000 contract with Ford Models. After a big runway show with fancy walking and all that, the judges named Korea's Seung-hyun Kang the grand winner: Ford Names New Supermodel of the W. Well, all right. Take

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Last week, a majority on the executive board of the United States Chess Federation formally asked a member to resign amid allegations that he posted fake messages under other people's names on internet bulletin boards to get elected to the board: Member of U.S. Chess Federation’s Board Is Asked to Resign in Dispute Over an Election. Four of the board's seven members called for Paul Truong's

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He's got her vote for sure. The New York Times has a few questions for Maya Soetoro-Ng, half-sister of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama: All in the Family. She and Obama share the same mother, but her father is from Indonesia. Yes, my friends. She is one of us. Survivor winner Yul Kwon might be millionaire, but he won't be getting into the yogurt business anytime soon: '

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Nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards were announced this morning. View the complete list of nominees here. Not much to get excited about. In fact, one very big thing to get angry about. So, no work by Asian Americans nominated. No big deal, that happens almost every year. Left out again. But to add insult to injury, we get Norbit scoring a nomination. For Best Makeup! If you

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What does this incident just seem all too familiar? Last week in Jamaica, New York, Baljeet Singh, a 63-year-old Sikh man suffered serious injuries during an unprovoked attack: Sikh Seriously Injured after Unprovoked Assault Outside NY Gurdwara. David C. Wood, a next-door neighbor to the gurdwara (Sikh place of worship), attacked Singh after he parked his car on the opposite side of the street.

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Awwww yeah. It's that time of year again. For all you hip hop fans in Los Angeles this weekend, it's the 6th Annual Asian Hip Hop Summit, a two-day event featuring some of the most exciting up-and-coming hip hop acts from the community. Friday and Saturday, January 25-26. Six years strong and growing, with festivals expanded to numerous cities nationwide. This one's the original. The first

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Yet another edition of Asians Behaving Badly... prison break edition. In Illinois, McHenry County jail authorities caught an inmate, 46-year-old Inhak Cho, trying to chip his way through the 18-inch concrete wall in his cell with a pair of self-made metal chisels: Cops: Algonguin man tried to chisel way out of McHenry County jail. Not quite Andy Dufresne, Cho had been working on his little

angry asian mantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714180529890392173.post-23802746345077354902008-01-20T21:58:00.000-08:002008-01-20T22:01:02.435-08:00

I forgot to mention that father-and-daughter team Ronald & Christina made it to the finale of CBS' The Amazing Race, which aired tonight: Tacoma duo reaches "Amazing Race" finals. Though I never got a chance to watch the show, I'm told the pair were a couple of go-getters who scrapped their way to the very end, despite a rocky start. Unfortunately, they did not win, losing to a couple named

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So I've been hearing a lot about this new "Korean-themed" restaurant opening up in Times Square. Unfortunately, the restaurant's name is.... wait for it.... Chop Suey. No joke. After the fakest "Chinese" dish to hit American shores. Who's stupid idea was this? You can blame Zak Pelaccio: Is Chop Suey the Worst Name Ever for a Korean Restaurant? Okay, so Chop Suey's reps claim that the name

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Crazy news out of Hawaii.... Last week, a man was arrested in connection with the death of a toddler tossed on to the H-1 Freeway. According to witnesses, 23-year-old Matthew Higa threw the child of a pedestrian overpass to his death, then calmly walked away and smoked a cigarette: Suspect babysat toddler thrown onto H-1. Police took Higa, who has four outstanding misdemeanor warrants, into

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Been busy as hell lately. Did you know there's a presidential race happening? Yesterday, Senator Hillary Clinton won the vote in the Nevada Demcratic caucuses, giving her a second consecutive victory in what looks like will be a lengthy, drawn-out race for the Presidency: Vote of Women Propels Clinton in Nevada Caucus I bring this up because for weeks now, I've been getting invitations from a

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Check out the brand new video for Exit Clov's "MK ULTRA." It involves an X-Files-like conspiracy, creepy guys in haz-mat suits, and paranormal twin girls. No, those aren't clever camera tricks you're seeing. That's Emily and Susan Hsu, the twin sisters who front Exit Clov's. Strange ones, they are, but they've got a great sound. The song comes off their 2006 EP Respond Respond. To learn

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In Dallas, a rash of robberies and burglaries seem to be targeting owners of Korean businesses: Korean business owners targets of crime. Victims were robbed in their homes or their homes were burglarized, and in some cases, the victims and their family members were bound and threatened with a knife or gun. A significant number of the victims—more than 15 in December—own businesses in the same

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So... everybody knows that fortune cookies are not really an authentic part of Chinese cuisine. We know this. You won't really find fortune cookies anywhere in China. The crackly wisdom-filled novelty actually came to prominence in the United States. But here's something to confuse you a little more: did you know that the fortune cookie actually originates from Japan? Jennifer 8. Lee has

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In space, Korea will be united. Scientist Ko San will soon become South Korea's first astronaut, riding along on a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station where he will conduct experiments: First Korean astronaut to take soil into space. He was selected from among 36,000 applicants to represent his country his space. At press conference this week, Ko said he plans to bring soil

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Well, a new season of American Idol has begun. A fresh start for television audiences everywhere to find a new Asian face to mock and ridicule. Will we see the next William Hung? Let us pray for mercy. But here's a contender: Renaldo Lapuz. Deep sadness fills my heart.

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Here's another story on Daniel Kim, the 21-year-old senior at Virginia Tech who committed suicide last month, shooting himself in the head while he sat in his car in a Target parking lot: At Va. Tech, Near Silence For a Student's Anguished Cry. The suicide came after at least one and possibly two students at other colleges had contacted Virginia Tech to say their friend had bought a gun and was

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For those of you in the Bay Area, here's some information on a very cool upcoming conference at Stanford... the Asian American Students' Association and the Stanford Asian American Activism Committee invite you to attend the 12th Annual Asian American Issues Conference, Listen to the Silence 2008 on Saturday, January 26: The event will feature remarks from keynote speaker Chancee Martorell,

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So get this. World War III might have been set off last week in the Strait of Hormuz, thanks to the work of a local heckler known as the "Filipino Monkey": 'Iran threats' may have been work of a heckler. The Pentagon released a video on Friday showing an incident between Iranian patrol boats and U.S. Navy warships, which was prompted by an unidentified transmission threatening to destroy the

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Can this be true? Is my hero, Survivor: Cook Islands winner Yul Kwon, considering a run for Congress? He apparently isn't ready to make a public statement, but he has told friends, colleagues and several elected officials he is strongly considering running: 'Survivor' considers run for Lantos' seat. If Yul decides to announce his candidacy, he'll be facing former state Senator Jackie Speier

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