Yup, this is allegedly a statue that exists inside a Seoul mall:
Somehow I don’t think I’ll come across anything more awesome today. ‘Nuff said!
Happy weekend!
Why South Korea is Awesome #43: Hulk Takes Shit in Mall
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The YOMYOMF Network: The Woman who Sees the Shadow People
“I want to make it clear that I have no interest in doing any sort of show for your channel. So do you still want to meet up?”
I’ve previously blogged about how one of the perks of overseeing the creative content for our upcoming YOMYOMF YouTube Network is the chance to meet interesting people I would otherwise not have access to (see examples here and here). And from the stories I heard about “Jenny” (not her real name), she certainly fit under the “interesting” category so even if she didn’t want anything to do with our network, if she was open to meeting—why not?
Oh, and Jenny’s an alleged psychic who has a special “relationship” with the shadow people.
Part of the challenge of putting together our YouTube network is making sure that we have a wide variety of programming. So I’m on the lookout for appropriate ideas in every genre—scripted and unscripted, animation, comedy, action, food, how to, fashion, sports, music, etc…
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Why Japan is Awesome #401: Japan Erection Guy
I think the less said about this, the better. Frankly, I wouldn’t know what to say about this anyway. It’s best that you watch and interpret for yourself:
YOMYOMF at Sundance: Once More with Feeling
So in a few hours, the last Offenders standing at Sundance (Justin, Elaine and myself) will be heading back to L.A. where I hear we’ve been experiencing beach weather. It’s going to be quite a change from this:
After Thursday’s snow adventure, the sun’s been shining in Park City making the weather picture perfect in my book: snow on the ground, sun in the sky. It’s certainly the perfect weather to sit inside a toasty theater with a thousand other film fans to watch movies, which for me included everything from Up the Yangtze director Yung Chang’s moving new documentary China Heavyweight–about boxing dreams in a small Chinese province–to Smashed—a dramedy about an L.A. woman struggling with alcoholism starring my new Sundance crush–the very talented Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
YOMYOMF at Sundance: Snow Day, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Foodie Heaven
Yesterday was a fun-filled day here at Sundance. The big event was our friend/colleague Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Hit Record at the Movies. I attended with my fellow Offenders Justin, Anderson, Elaine and indie film guru John Sloss. Anderson already posted the live video stream of the event (click here). Justin took part when Joseph invited him to help shoot a scene from Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer featuring Joseph and “indie queen” Parker Posey (who still is hot, BTW) live on stage for an upcoming short video. Will be curious to see how that comes together and, of course, we’ll post the finished video on YOMYOMF when it’s done.
That's Justin with his back to us.
Joseph really made sure there was plenty of audience interaction by doing everything from bringing up people who wanted to sing for a future project and answering interesting tweets (Best line of the night from Joseph during one of the conversations with an audience tweeter: “A hipster is someone who dresses up like an artist, but who doesn’t make shit.”).
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YOMYOMF at Sundance: The First Time
In a few hours, I’ll be boarding a very early flight to Salt Lake City to join some of my fellow Offenders including Justin, Elaine and Anderson for the second half of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Unlike the others, this is my first time at the fest. I try to avoid anything that reeks of Hollywood glitziness (which is why I also wasn’t there for the first half of the fest when most of the Paris Hilton types are in attendance), but with a YOMYOMF cabin this year and Anderson’s promise of coke and whores, I couldn’t resist.
And yes, everyone looks exactly the same 10 years later. Vampires or Asians?
And speaking of Sundance and first times, I should point out that Justin’s Better Luck Tomorrow premiered at Sundance exactly ten years ago this year. That was also the first trip to the fest for most of the Offenders—like Sung and Roger–who worked on the film (though not the last, many of the same crew would be back for Finishing the Game).
Romantic or Creepy? Thai Man Marries His Dead Girlfriend
Saw this news report earlier today and was curious as to what our readers thought:
A Thai man named Chadil Deffy (apparently also known as Deff Yingyuen) lost his girlfriend of 10 years in a car accident on January 3. The couple had plans to get married at the time of the woman’s death.
On January 4, Deffy sent a message out on his Facebook that he would be holding a joint funeral/wedding for his beloved deceased girlfriend at a local temple in the Surin Province. No word yet on whether the wedding/funeral has taken place yet.
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How to Survive Lunar New Year if You’re an Asian American Criminal
Dear Asian American Criminal:
Let me start off by saying that I don’t condone your criminal lifestyle—the murdering, the thieving, the embezzling, the assaulting and all the other illegal, awful things you do. But I know you are loyal readers of this blog because…well, just look at the shit we write about. And as loyal readers, I feel an obligation to return that loyalty to you and I can’t think of a better occasion to do that than on this Lunar New Year holiday. So let me just give you this one piece of valuable advice if you plan on committing your heinous crimes on this day of all days:
Don’t do it in Chinatown!
It doesn’t matter if you commit your crimes in Chinatown on the other 364 days of the year, this is the one day you must avoid it because I guarantee that you will get caught. Why? Because if Hollywood movies and TV shows have taught us anything, it’s that white cops are always busting Asian criminals in Chinatown while the new year’s celebrations are taking place.
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The Levitating Magical Bear of Sexual Purity
For most of us, February 14 is Valentine’s Day. But for a growing number of teens, February 14 has come to be known as the Day of Purity. It’s day when teens make a commitment to God and to not have sex until they get married.
OK, I think it’s important to instill good habits in our youth so I suppose this is one way to do that although I remain skeptical at the feasibility of horny kids maintaining such a vow. That is…until I saw the following student-made video, which is all kinds of awesome.
If a levitating magical bear isn’t enough to keep you chaste until marriage, well, then damnit, I don’t know what is! Check it out after the jump and prepare to give up pre-marital sex:
The YOMYOMF Network: SOPA and Asian American Content on the Web
If you tried to log onto our blog yesterday, you were greeted with this message:
Yes, we wanted to show our solidarity with other websites all over the ‘net that went black to protest two anti-piracy bills making their way through Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Why are we against these measures and what does any of this have to do with YOMYOMF and our upcoming YOMYOMF YouTube Network?
It may seem odd on the surface that we’re taking this position considering most of us on this site are content creators and, furthermore, make our living creating content for Hollywood productions. And let’s not forget that Offender Justin’s film Fast Five was the most pirated movie last year so if this issue impacts anyone, it’s certainly him.
So is it right that people are “stealing” our work? Shouldn’t we be supporting SOPA to stop this?
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The Video with the Asian Chick Defending the Guys that Beat Up the Asian Guy
I’m sure many of our readers are aware of the disturbing video that came out of Chicago earlier this week that showed seven guys graphically beating the shit out of an Asian man. The police have taken several young men into custody today and are questioning them.
On the heels of this news comes another new video today from a woman with the YouTube handle Raindropskeepstallin. She clearly knows at least one of the men responsible for beating the man and spends four-and-a-half minutes DEFENDING HIM (“Uh…what they did was wrong…uh…but…regardless…they had their reasons to go after him…”).
According to the YouTube page, this chick is the ex-girlfriend of “the main guy that initiated the (fight).” I don’t know if that’s true or not, but…well, just check it out for yourself:
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Even the Animals are Mourning Kim Jong Il’s Death
We all saw the images of ordinary North Koreans mourning the loss of Kim Jong Il last month. But it turns out North Korea’s humans aren’t the only ones who were terribly saddened by Lil Kim’s death. According to reports out of the country, even the nation’s animals have been observed grieving their Dear Leader.
NK State News Agency KCNA reported that a family of bears was seen weeping at the side of the road. Not only that, but a flock of magpies was observed hovering around a statue of Kim Jong Il at the time of his death “clattering as if they were telling him the sad news.”
And of course, no one was sadder about the news than sad Keanu himself:
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Happy MLK Day!
Tomorrow we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the holiday created in his honor, but his actually birthday is today—January 15, 1929. Of course I’d be remiss not to take a moment to pay tribute and can’t think of a better way to do so than with the complete, unedited version of Dr. King’s infamous 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech:
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” — MLK
A Sad Ode to the Twinkie
With the news this week that Hostess, the company that makes Twinkies, is filing for bankruptcy protection, we must accept the sad reality that this may mean the beginning of the end for Twinkies.
Sure, Hostess makes a number of other well-known food products such as Wonder Bread and Ding Dongs, but has there ever been a snack food that is as iconic as the Twinkie? I would argue—no.
So how ironic is it that in the Asian American community, the Twinkie has a negative connotation—serving as shorthand for someone who is yellow on the outside, but white on the inside? Why can’t the Twinkie represent something positive? Like someone who’s yellow on the outside and full of yummy creaminess inside? So the next time someone calls you a Twinkie, instead of getting angry or offended, you can instead proclaim proudly, “Why yes, I am yellow on the outside. And inside me is a yummy creaminess that’s just waiting to explode inside your mouth, damnit!”
Spock Ears for Those Cold Winter Nights
Yes, these are crocheted Spock ears.
And yes, I would totally wear them. And not just because I have a thing for Vulcans. After all, these are the logical things to wear to keep your ears warm.
I know nothing about crocheting so I have no idea what the following even means, but if you’d like to make a pair of these Spock ears for yourself, here’s how:
Fast Food Receipts: Lady Chinky Eyes, Ching and Chong & Horny Waiters
By now, you’ve probably heard about the Asian American woman in New York who ordered a pizza from Papa John’s to find the cashier had identified her as “Lady Chinky Eyes.”
This comes on the heels of a cashier at an Irvine Chick-fil-A referring to two Asian customers on their receipts as Ching and Chong.
Of course, these incidents raise some disturbing questions. First, is this part of a larger pattern of systematic fast food-based racism? And if so, how stupid are these fast food employees? I mean they do realize that it’s one thing to call someone lady chinky eyes behind their back and another to write that name on the receipt that the customer will take home with her? Perhaps just as disturbing, why would anyone who lives in New York eat at Papa John’s? That’s like living in Monterey Park and eating at Panda Express. And what about people like my friend whose last name is Ching who is dating a woman whose last name is Chong (I am not making this up)—how awkward will it be for them to go into a Chick-fil-A now?
But alas racist receipts aren’t anything new. Check out this one from a place called the Landmark:
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The YOMYOMF Network: The Show About the UCLA Student who Fought with the Libyan Rebels
I’ve previously blogged about how one of the perks of overseeing the creative content for our upcoming YOMYOMF Network on YouTube (click here if you don’t know what this is) is getting to meet interesting people I might otherwise not get a chance to. And one of the most interesting has got to be Chris Jeon.
You may remember Chris from the news as the Korean American UCLA student who decided last summer to spend his vacation fighting alongside Libyan rebels to overthrow the Gaddafi regime. Not speaking a word of Arabic or knowing anyone in that region, Chris bought a one-way plane ticket to Egypt, hitch-hiked from there to Libya, found his way to the aforementioned rebels, somehow convinced them to let him join the movement and then spent a month living and fighting with them until he was “outed” by a reporter from the Christian Science Monitor and became a media sensation. Here’s the first image of Chris in Libya that the world saw:
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Don’t You Hate it When an Inanimate Doll Moves on its Own
This is Bob:
Bob is a doll. He’s about the size of a small child so he’s pretty big for a doll. Bob can usually be found propped up next to my office door, but recently it seems he’s developed a nasty habit of somehow moving to different areas of the house during the night.
But first a little background–back in 2005, my theatre company was producing a show that consisted of a series of short plays loosely adapted from Grimms’ fairy tales. One of the pieces, written by playwright Judy Soo Hoo, was based on the Juniper Tree which is one of the Grimms’ most, well, grim stories and that’s saying something.
In the tale, a young girl’s brother is murdered by her stepmother—he is beheaded and his flesh served by stepmom to the unsuspecting family in a stew. The girl, who feels guilt from falsely believing she was responsible for the boy’s death, buries her brother’s bones underneath a juniper tree and…bad shit happens.
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Thursday Geek-Out: Dr. Seuss’ Batman, Japan’s Justice League & Pingu’s ‘The Thing’
Yesterday, I blogged about the Shaun of the Dead Legos so I thought I’d continue to geek out some more with three more geektastic things.
First, I present a collection of images of Batman and some of the best-known members of his Rouge Gallery as if they had been imagined by Dr. Seuss courtesy of Dr. FaustusAU. Next, artist Cliff Chiang’s concept art for an anime-inspired Japanese version of the Justice League (featuring Superman, Batman, Aquaman and the gang) that almost became a reality a few years back. And finally, one of the coolest videos I’ve seen in awhile–a reimagining of John Carpenter’s classic monster flick The Thing (which my fellow Offender Quentin blogged about recently) as a claymation epic starring Pingu the Penguin. Check them all out:
DR. SEUSS BATMAN:
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Best Toy in an Alternate Universe: ‘Shaun of the Dead’ Legos
I loved Legos as a kid. Probably my all-time favorite toys. And if the young me were still alive today and had to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas, it might very well be this:
Yup, a Lego set based on the great 2004 zombie flick Shaun of the Dead.
Only problem is this product doesn’t actually exist. At least not in our universe. And like me, perhaps your reaction to that is—why? After all, there seems to be Legos based on every other property from Star Wars:
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