Archive for October, 2005
I went to a Halloween party at Mr. Bank Manager’s crib, affectionately known as “The R.” Dude had a makeshift digital photobooth rigged through a stand-up arcade game (don’t think that’s part of the deal) where the previews would roll through, called Boof! Obviously, the photobooth also printed these fine things for you to take home and showcase on your fridge and whatnot.
You can see the shots me and my pallies are in, here.
Yes, the costume above is the same Halloween costume I’ve been wearing for the past 5 years, give or take. What can I say other than: 1) I should probably retire it soon and 2) that I’m too lazy to think up new ones or invest in another.
Man, it’s really too bad I grew out of my goth rock phase. Back then, I was willing to dress-up for Halloween and make this big deal out of it, but now that requires far too much effort and time that I don’t really have. Feh.
Best Halloween costume by far? Jarik dressed drag as an Asian import car model (you know — they sit on rice burners/rice rockets at auto shows). Good Lord, was he in an incredible get-up, I swear.
In other weird quests for link definitions, look at this definition for the Honda Civic, which I drive. Didn’t know people were so into defining what a Civic is.
I’m going to spend tonight watching The Crow or something all old skool silly like that, and getting a cavity.
Remember to check all your candies, kids. Good night, good fight.
October 31st, 2005
Automattic Spam Stopper (I will refrain from the acronym here) is now Akismet, thanks to Charleen’s whimsical way with words. The Akismet WordPress Plugin is available for download, and the squeaky-clean new site went live just now. Check it out.
I’ve been running an older version for a little over a month. Although I initially heard some feedback about genuine comments being sent to the black hole on other people’s blogs, I can’t say that that has been happening on my own blog — all of my own comments have been coming through to my queue quite cleanly. The current download is Version 1.03, so I’m sure this problem has been rectified by now.
If you would like to know a little more about how Akismet works, there’s an excellent write-up by Richard Boakes here. Please note that you need a WordPress API key to use Akismet, so if you don’t know where it is, the FAQ blog is the place to start figuring that out.
October 26th, 2005
So blogged. I had a lot of fun. I was so amazingly glad to be a part of that. I felt sort of silly be up there and everything. I mean, when I get put into those situations, I really crave hiding behind a monitor sometimes when I’m spilling my guts. That, and I also get really self-conscious and freaked out and everything.
After talking with some people after the event, I realize that some people may think the “cliff-hanger” in that Burning Man piece was intentional, when in fact it wasn’t. I really honestly had been sorting a ream of paper at the top of the event and forgot that page completely. So, I’ll point you to the pieces I did tonight, and you can read them to completion as I realize they’re a bit long. (And sorry for blowing past the time limit — thank you for being so patient! I’m a bit verbose. OK, a lot. That tends to happen with me.)
Here were the probable pieces:
- “A League of Their Own / A League of Our Own” (on Asian-ness, discrimination), appears in Agendacide: Minutes, July 18th 2002.
- “In The Ghetto” (uses the f-bomb a lot) appears in Agendacide: Minutes, April 19th 2002.
- “Disorder: Day Three of My New Life” (a poem about how two people just can’t get it together) appears in Agendacide: Minutes, March 16th 2002.
- “To Eric, From JFK” (prose about where home is) appears in Agendacide: Minutes, April 23rd 1999.
- “Girls vs. Boys: Girls” (dead-up, zero bullshit advice for a real guy from a real girl) appears in Negative Waves Issue #104.
- This last one link is for fellow performer Annie Lin, whom I had the pleasure of meeting over drinks and brownies after the event. We had talked about Williamsburg, “East-Williamsburg-let’s-be-honest, it’s-not-really-East-Williamsburg-now-is-it” Brooklyn, and guitar idolettes quite a bit. “I have a meeting at happyhour.com”, which appears at Agendacide: Minutes, July 15th 2003, is about the L-Train in New York, where she recently moved to. (So all you New York kids reading this be nice and say hi; go to her site now and download some MP3 clips or something).
And if you sent me your birthday? No really. If you didn’t get a beatdown tonight, instead, on your birthday… you’ll get a surprise for your trouble. I have an awesome memory and I’ll totally remember your birthday and send you a surprise. I’m good like that.
Thanks to Locus Arts (Sam, Jane, Carolyn) for putting on the event, and to MJ for inviting me out. Thanks to you if you made it out — what a great turnout for an APA event. You guys kick major ass.
October 21st, 2005
Oh, the Astros and the White Sox are in the World Series! Let the internal conflict begin!
In case you’re wondering why your friends who happen to like baseball like me are a little bit confused by this season, allow me to point you to some top-of-the-season predictions from my esteemed colleagues at Negative Waves. As you can see from the content of that predictions link, 4 out of 5 couldn’t have predicted the baseball season at all and they are all idiots — except for Mikey, who was pretty much dead-on-the-money in every division but couldn’t see the Astros coming from a mile away.
Durr.
Hell, if I had contributed to that feature, I could’ve told you that. Not that I would be able to tell you why (*cough* Clemens *cough* Pettitte *cough* Killer Bs), but call it gut instinct.
Der.
An excerpt of a semi-applicable-but-not-really conversation I had yesterday on the South vs. the City of Chicago:
KC: i guess i’ll ask eris what she’s doing
Me: why don’t you check with JASON?
KC: uh
KC: dab be smart
KC: tho he hasn’t responded
Me: *DER* yes he has
Me: he said if there’s veggie, he’s there
Me: but der, eris is veggie
KC: it’s DURR. not DER
Me: or dur
Me: it’s only durrr if you’re from the south or listen to too much nelly.
Me: DUR
KC: apparently, there’s no vegetarian option
KC: hot in derrrrrr?
Me: uhm, does eris know there’s no veggie option?
KC: i guess there’s fish?
Me: oh.
Me: well why don’t you ask jason anywho?
KC: discussing it
Me: excellent
KC: word
Me: and btw
Me: it’s “der” if you’re from chicago
KC: which… you’re not?
Me: i’m not from chicago, but.
KC: poser
Me: i relate to the chicagoans some.
Me: i *heart* chicago
Me: breakyoself
Strangely, the two friends that we mentioned, Eris and Jason, are from Texas and Chicago, respectively.
Allow me to be Tim McCarver for a second (and for the record, I hate him and he is the worst announcer in sports EVER because he states the goddamn obvious) for all the uninformed in case you know nothing about what’s going on in the world of baseball. The Astros are the clear underdog in the World Series. First off, they had to capture the National League Wild Card to get into the playoffs, and second, this is the first time they get to play in the World Series.
The White Sox? Well, they’re from Chicago.
Oh, and checkitout — Ditka’s on the Tim McCarver Show in 9 days. Yay, football (which I know almost nothing about so I should be watching the Tim McCarver Show in this case).
I hope rooting for a National League team doesn’t come back to shoot me in the foot. But something tells me it will. I don’t wanna jinx it.
October 20th, 2005
OK, I confess. When we moved in, Jay had an extra TV and I got it set up in my room. But lately, while the rest of my friends have been catching up on “Firefly“, I, on the other hand, have opted to watch endless hours of ESPN (due to the end of the baseball season of course) and blow through all of last season of “Lost” on DVD, and catch-up on the season that’s now in progress.
I swear to God that TV show is Crack.
Since the Yankees got knocked out of the playoffs, it’s really only been about my hand-me-down PS2, hand-me-down copy of MVP Baseball 2004, and “Lost,” with some intermittent interest in the playoffs.
I’ve been rooting for both the Houston Astros and the Chicago White Sox since the Yanks got knocked out. Considering that the ChiSox are in the World Series for the first time since 1959 (and haven’t won it since 1917), and the ’stros have never been in one in all of their franchise history, this proves to be a pretty exciting matchup.
If the Astros get rid of the St. Louis Cardinals (and the odds are quite good tonight with Pettitte pitching, in fact), and if they play the ChiSox in the World Series, I’m not exactly sure who I’m going to end up rooting for. The Chi (sorry Chicagoans, I’ve been listening to a lot of Kanye recently, sorry) unfortunately has not seen winning baseball teams since the 1910s (the Chicago Cubs haven’t won since 191008, making them the most championship-thirsty and heartbroken fans in baseball today). To the other end, H-Town has NEVER EVEN SEEN a World Series. It’s a tough call as they’re both really great teams now, and they’re both about due.
Choosing between Chicago or Houston. Why does it have to be this way?!
Anyway… what does “Lost” have to do with baseball at all, you ask? The numbers:
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
I’m sure those numbers must be actually something like coordinates somewhere in the middle of the Pacific, but they’re mostly retired New York Yankee numbers.
Oh, and now that The Boston Red Sox (”The Nation”) and the New York Yankees (”The Empire”) have ended feuding for another season, I really only have one thing to say to the fans of the soon-to-be-yesterday’s-news World Champions:
At least we didn’t go down in 3.
October 17th, 2005
On Thursday night, I’ll be at Lap-POP! — an event put on by Locus Arts, which is an amazing Asian American Arts organization based here in the Bay area. Curated by Min Jung Kim, Lap-POP! promises to be a geekgasmagorical (credit to Charleen) extravaganza with an array of Asian American artists.
OK now, that’s all the hype I can generate, but I promise it won’t be your average geeky-ass blogger event. The reason I say this is because we’re going to be happily focusing on more creative and artistic endeavors this time (thank freakin’ God) and we get to stop talking about monetizing and paradigm shifts for a hot minute.
Allow me to illustrate how fun this event will hopefully be with two of my fellow performers:
Here is a picture of Ernie and I at South by Southwest this past year, bumping booties to some Nelly jam or something. He is the only person I know that gets references to obscure “Afro-pop” groups like Kwame. People really, really like this picture of me and Ernie. And although this is one of many goofy pictures I have taken with Ernie, I am actually really surprised they do not appear in their own Flickr cluster.
If more than 30 people we know show up, Ernie and I will do the “Rollin’ with Kid n’ Play” kickstep for you all, and that will be the interactive portion of both of our writing sets.
A long time ago in a galaxy just across the way, I’d told a bunch of our friends about how the Ewoks were confirmed as speaking Filipino after years of wondering after college. Based upon a conversation I’d had with my besterest friend in the galaxy, Dac, a couple of months back, we weirdly decided the Ewoks were Filipino. Then I met Courtney, another Filipino sistah with an identical mole on her face — and those moles were dubbed as our matching “Moons of Endor.”
It looks like I ripped a fart in that picture and laughed my ass off while Courtney covered her mouth and nose. That’s probably not the case, but that’s what it looks like in retrospect. Regardless — Courtney will wow you with her photographs, and you should be around for that, so please come out and show your support not only for the blogging community, but the arts community and the asian arts community as well!
Speaking of Ewoks, for your amusement — my latest cameo appearance in the blogosphere has entailed a brief stint as the Ewok Princess Kneesaa bringin’ the LiveJournal drama on Wicket Warrick on the not-so-surprisingly-well-written, Ewok-powered, Star Wars Battlefront II blog.
Let me assure you that neither Ernie, Courtney, nor I look very Ewok-like IRL so, you’d have to come on out to Lap-POP! to see for yourself. We’d love to see you there.
Lap-POP! graphic by Amy Lam of Mobile Republic.
October 17th, 2005
