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Fuck Yeah! Sung Kang!

  • January 31, 2012 5:18 pm

"Fuck Yeah! I'm Sung Kang."

Just wanted to point all our readers to this fan tumblr site that is called, you guessed it, FuckYeah!SungKang. No if’s or but’s, just fuck yeah! and to the point. Run by Admin Hanna, she unfortunately, has not updated it in months, because she’s gotten too busy with real life, like school, jobs, and other questionable activities that are taking her away from her responsibilities of objectifying the one and only Han from Tokyo Drift!

So I am calling you out, Admin Hanna! You have a responsibility to my boy Sung to update your tumblr and get the ball rolling on the Sung-man love. Yes, we are calling you out. We can’t wait until FAST SIX for you to update your tumblr. It needs to be done now. Sung Kang, Fuck yeah!

The Video with the Asian Chick Defending the Guys that Beat Up the Asian Guy

  • January 17, 2012 6:39 pm

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:  Read more...

Don’t put down Asians, Mr. Romney

  • January 6, 2012 1:28 am

Hilarious clip of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and Senator John McCain at a rally, where a Chinese woman tells them that they are “putting Asians down” with their anti-China rhetoric. She then goes and says Reagan trickle down economics has still left her “tin can” empty.YouTube Preview ImageI like how Romney then goes and implies, “I love Asians!”

(Via Color Lines)

The Dead and the Beloved

  • January 4, 2012 12:05 am

Mao I before passing

In a cozy loft just south of Market Street shared by my friend M and his husband D, we were all having glasses of sake and beer around the table as the recent addition of the family, Mao II, jumped on the tabletop. M grabbed Mao II and gently combed his hair with his fingers. The black cat purred.

“Do you want to see Mao I?” asked D.

“What do you mean?” I asked. “Mao I… is dead.”

“Show him,” said M.

D ran upstairs and returned unfolding a cat skin complete with its claws and head preserved. I almost fell off my chair.  Read more...

TROY: The City of Yesterday…Today

  • December 13, 2011 4:24 pm

CURTIS

Curtis Chin is a Motown-born, New York-bred, Los Angeles-based writer, producer and community activist. He’s proud to have co-founded the Asian American Writers Workshop and Asian Pacific Americans for Progress and for writing and producing the documentary Vincent Who? He’s less proud of having started the Young Republicans Club in high school. He’s currently working on a new website with a former ABC and HBO exec, widelantern.com, and developing a teen comedy with director Quentin Lee and producer Chris Lee.

I live in Los Angeles now, but Southeastern Michigan will always be my hometown. I am a fourth-generation Michiganian, born and raised here. For many years, my family ran the popular Chung’s Restaurant on Cass Avenue. Living in the suburbs, I went to Troy High where I received a great education. There, I was elected Senior Class President and President of the National Honor Society. I graduated from the University of Michigan, earning a degree in creative writing.

I sometimes think about moving back to the metro Detroit area to help revitalize the city. But then I read about people like Janice Daniels, the new mayor of Troy, saying, “I think I am going to throw away my I Love New York carrying bag now that queers can get married there” and realize that’s just a fantasy.  Read more...

Dance Dance Evolution

  • December 4, 2011 10:17 pm

Is this what’s really happening on the dance floor, kids? And according to this diagram, there’s some yellow fever going on, especially in 1990 and 2011.

Happy Monday, everyone!

(Via Neaato)

Hope for the Occupy Movement: One Young Vet, One Old Vet, and My Mom.

  • November 11, 2011 4:30 am

I own a bar a block and a half away from Frank Ogawa Plaza, ground zero of the Occupy Oakland Movement.  Two weeks ago, when the cops came in to clear out the Occupy campsite, my manager went up the block to have a look and was shot by a rubber bullet.  A week later, during the General  Strike called for by Occupy Oakland, we put a wet towel at the bottom of the front door to keep the tear gas from wafting in.

But that’s not why I support the 99%-ers.

I support them because they have the passion to get mad.  They even care enough to camp uncomfortably.

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Old Chinese people cover Lady Gaga’s BAD ROMANCE

  • November 7, 2011 8:57 pm

YouTube Preview ImageThis performance was televised on popular satellite station HUNAN TV to hundreds of millions of viewers. I don’t get the symbolism of young, nubile girls in mini-skirts playing traditional instruments juxtaposed with what looks like senior citizens living in a retirement home. And how does Lady Gaga fit in? Maybe the old folks are the Chinese equivalent of the Young@Heart chorus? Sometimes, I don’t get China. Anyway, enjoy…

Chinatown meat market sells dog meat?

  • November 7, 2011 7:45 pm

In the rich tradition of Asian accents gone mistakenly wrong, the NY Post reports about an idiot Minnesota news reporter, in his pursuit of journalistic integrity, set off a chain of events that caused a New York Chinatown meat market to get raided by food inspectors because he had thought they were selling dog meat. OK, let’s backtrack a bit….

Intrepid reporter James Schugel was investigating one of Minessota’s largest dog breeding organizations that was accused of illegally breeding puppies and selling them on the black market. One place where puppies were bringing shipped over was the Canine Culture Center, with a NY address. Schugel went to the Big Apple and to his surprise, the Dak Cheong Meat Market was at the same address! He interviewed an employee there and asked him if he knew of the Canine Culture Center. The worker replied, “they only sell dogs to eat.”  Read more...

No Racist Asian Halloween Costumes…Unless You’re Hot & Slutty

  • October 25, 2011 12:01 am

Like many of you reading this, I have problems with white/non-Asian people dressing up in “chinky” and culturally insensitive Halloween costumes. That’s why I was happy to see that a student group at Ohio University called the Students Teaching About Racism in Society have launched a poster campaign to bring attention to this issue with images like this:

And these (see all of them here):

Like I said, this is great and I support this effort fully, but I believe an exception should be made for hot white chicks wearing slutty Asian costumes.

Why should these individuals be exempt? Well, I can make a detailed and persuasive argument that would be so convincing that you would realize that I am right, but, in this case, perhaps a visual argument would work just as well:  Read more...

Gay Chinese Man Denied Divorce From His Sham Lesbian Wife

  • October 17, 2011 11:24 pm

I was talking to a gay friend over the weekend who is considering marrying his lesbian friend so he can start a family. I told him I thought this might be a bad idea unless he wants to live in what will most likely turn into a real-life Adam Sandler movie. But fortunately, in a fortuitous bit of timing, the internet has once again come through to back me up.

It seems that a gay Beijing man named Wang married a lesbian woman with the plan that the two of them would have twins and each would raise one of the twins. Well, as so often happens with the best laid plans, the lesbian wife only gave birth to one child and she decided she wanted to raise her child alone; cutting Wang out completely. So Wang filed for divorce, but a Chinese court has rejected his request because apparently there is a law in that country that forbids a husband from filing for divorce if his wife is pregnant or within the one-year period after she’s given birth.  Read more...

Justin Lin had a Face Change Operation?

  • October 11, 2011 12:01 am

My fellow Offender Justin Lin recently talked to the LA Times to dish on the upcoming Terminator film, which he’s scheduled to direct. That interview got picked up by others including the Fused Film site. It was there that our friends at Cherry Sky Films noticed this photo accompanying the post:

Strangely, the photo of Justin above looks suspiciously like Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift star Brian Tee:

Was it a mistake? Or yet another example of the “Asians all look alike” syndrome? Or could it just be that Justin underwent a face change operation to look more like the handsome Brian Tee? I mean just look at Mr. Tee:  Read more...

The Real Problem with UC Berkeley Republicans’ ‘Racist/Sexist’ Bake Sale

  • September 26, 2011 7:22 pm

By now, I’m sure many of our readers have heard that UC Berkeley’s College Republicans group is holding a special bake sale tomorrow. As you can see from the group’s Facebook posting below, the items for sale will be priced differently according to who you are as follows: White/Caucasian $2, Asian/Asian American $1.50, Latino/Hispanic $1, Black/African American $.75, Native American $.25 and $.25 OFF FOR ALL WOMEN (caps theirs):

The news of this bake sale has unleashed an avalanche of outrage and even led to an emergency meeting last night of the campus student government, which passed a resolution “condemning discrimination by student groups, satirical or otherwise.”  Read more...

More Proof that Asian Women Hate Asian Men and Love Non-Asian Men

  • September 15, 2011 2:19 pm

We get some interesting pingbacks on some of our YOMYOMF blogs and recently I received a pingback on a blog I wrote last year about Non-Asian Women Who Love Asian Men. A site called Date Korean Women included a link to my aforementioned blog on a recent post they wrote entitled “Want to Date an Asian Women? 5 Reasons Why Asian Women Like Non-Asian Men.”

Not sure why they would link to that particular blog when their post is basically a diss on Asian guys and my blog examines the other side of the coin, but I thought I’d go ahead and post their 5 reasons (typos/grammatical errors and all) here ‘cause it’s pretty damn entertaining (though there’s honestly nothing you probably haven’t heard a gazillion times before):

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We Should Let the Uninsured Die. And Then Eat Them. While Perry and Romney Fuck.

  • September 12, 2011 9:26 pm

Did you watch tonight’s Tea Party debate? I sure did and let me tell you that no one puts on a more entertaining debate than those Tea Partiers. The only thing that could’ve made it better is if the Joker and Two-Face had interrupted the proceedings and taken Rick Perry’s toupée hostage.

Speaking of Perry, does anyone else think he and Mitt Romney should just get a room and fuck already? There’s some serious sexual tension between those two guys—they remind me of Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan arguing back and forth before they finally jumped into bed together in When Harry Met Sally. Besides, they’re conservatives so they can fuck each other and it wouldn’t mean that they’re gay so it’s all good.

But I’m not here to make fun of the Tea Party or discuss the bang-ability of Michelle Bachmann or whatever it is regular readers of this blog expect me to do. No, in fact, I think some very good points were made during the debate and I want to give props where props are due. And one of those great points came when moderator Wolf Blitzer (who’s aptly looking more and more wolf-like every day) asked Ron Paul a hypothetical question about a 30-year-old uninsured man who becomes seriously ill and couldn’t pay his medical bills. “Are you saying society should just let him die?” Wolf howled asked.  Read more...

Why 9/11 Truth-Seekers Will Never Go Away

  • September 11, 2011 12:01 am

CORY

Cory Chu-Keenan is a father and a proponent of getting Civics back into American schools. He is an activist for Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Media Reform, and Restoration of Civil Rights. He will be debuting a Politically Conscious Hip-Hop Album in 2012 entitled Technofetishistic Psychodrama under the emcee name, Cory the Keen One.

We don’t teach Civics in America anymore. We teach Literature, Mathematics, and, ahem, History, but we don’t teach our youth how to keep a Democratic Republic. We’ve gotten to the point where we no longer understand what it means to do civic duty.

America was designed as an experiment. It was the first time in human history where the People, the citizenry, were called upon to govern themselves. And this system, designed by the framers of the Constitution, became a beacon of freedom for the rest of the world.

What freedom meant to our founding fathers was chiefly freedom from tyranny. But they couldn’t just say, “Okay, from now on, no more tyranny.” They had to replace monarchical rule with a different form of rule: Rule by the People, for the People.  Read more...

Chinese toddler drives car

  • September 3, 2011 2:10 pm

What is with these crazy parents who make or let their kids do the darndest things? We at YOMYOMYF were already reeling with the Sumatran smoking 2-year old. But, now this? Check out this video, coming out of China:

Maybe this dad has a dream to squash the Asians are bad drivers myth and is starting his kid early in driver’s ed.

Photoshop Looter

  • August 9, 2011 2:39 pm

Is the above image confusing? Let me explain… The London riots this past weekend seem have simmered down a bit, with more cops on the streets, but there are still pockets around the city. The damage, physical and psychological, has truly affected citizens as class tensions become even more fiery in the UK. In fact, a colleague of mine, who runs a film distribution company felt this first hand, as his inventory that was stored in a Sony DVD warehouse and hub was burned to the ground last night.

The photos of rioters coming from the AP Wire are truly weird. It’s as if ATTACK THE BLOCK became a reality! Well, it’s just human nature to eventually laugh after the face of tragedy, and here’s a prime example: a tumblr feed of photoshopped looter pics. Some are really hilarious. Hence, E.T. with the juvenile delinquent above.  Read more...

Super Gonorrhea, Penis Cutting & Homophobia, or Why Asians Ain’t Getting Laid This Week

  • July 14, 2011 1:01 am

Message to my Asian peeps: what the hell is going on this week? Did you all get together and decide to unleash all this shit at the same time to make non-Asian folks afraid to have sex with us? ‘Cause I think I missed that evite.

First comes reports that a “super” strain of gonorrhea that’s immune to all antibiotics was discovered in Japan. Scientists first identified this new and improved STD in a Japanese sex worker, but don’t know much about it or how it came to be. Well, I’m not a medical expert, but let me just throw this bit of advice out to our Japanese friends…maybe you should stop fucking octopus tentacles and robots. ‘Cause you don’t know where that shit’s been and what sort of new super STDs you’re creating.

Next, there’s Catherine Kieu Becker who allegedly cut off her husband’s penis on Monday and disposed of it in the garbage disposal. Now, on one hand, Kieu definitely doesn’t sound like your stereotypically submissive Asian woman so I applaud her for that, but she certainly hasn’t helped dispel the image of Asian women as craaaazy.  Read more...

A New York State of Mind

  • June 27, 2011 9:45 pm

CURTIS

Curtis Chin is a Motown-born, New York-bred, Los Angeles-based writer, producer and community activist. He’s proud to have co-founded the Asian American Writers Workshop and Asian Pacific Americans for Progress and for writing and producing the documentary looking back at the June 19, 1982 murder of Vincent Chin, Vincent Who? He’s less proud of having started the Young Republicans Club in high school. He’s currently working on a new website with a former ABC and HBO exec, widelantern.com, and developing a teen comedy with director Quentin Lee and producer Chris Lee. For the months of June and July, Vincent Who? will be available on-line for free by visiting the official website, Vincentwhomovie.com.

“New York, New York, a helluva town!” – Broadway musical, Our Town

A million songs have been written about New York and its general awesomeness. Usually it’s just about the Big Apple, but in this case, that awesomeness applies to the whole damn state. On Friday, New York joined Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Iowa and New Hampshire to become the sixth state to allow gay and lesbian couples to legally marry. With more than 18 million residents, the number of Americans living in marriage-equality jurisdictions instantly doubled. (Keep in mind, this equality only applies to state law. Every LGBT couple in the country, even in those states and DC which also allows LGBT couples to marry, are still discriminated against at the federal level due to the Defense of Marriage Act.)

Ever since New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in the Spring that he would prioritize the passage of a marriage equality bill, I have been monitoring the news for any development. As the state legislative session was coming to a close this past week, my anticipation, excitement and fear picked up steam. Every morning, I would eagerly log on to see if my former home state would be sending me an overnight love letter. I was literally checking the LGBT news sites on an almost hourly basis, hoping for any updates. The bill needed 32 votes to pass the Republican-held Senate and only 29 Democrats had publicly committed. There were no guarantees that the bill would even come up for a vote.  Read more...