People tell me I’m skinny. My BMI is 22.6. That’s closer to the upper end of “normal weight” than to the lower end. I only seem skinny because I live in America.
Pretty sure that was Prof. Jerome Cohen standing next to Chen Guangcheng in that shot on CNN just now. Probably filmed at NYU?
Kids:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…
I Notice When I Notice
Can anyone think of a current show on TV with a major or just recurrent Asian character who is normal? I can’t, but then again I haven’t seen every TV show currently on the air. Of the shows I have come across:
- Community - one of my favorites and totally awesome, but featuring a psychopathic Ken Jeong.
- Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23 - with the next door neighbor girl who is fetishistically obsessed with Krysten Ritter’s character.
- House - with socially awkward Dr. Chi Park who apparently studied way too much in school; you know, as Asian kids are all wont to do.
Pretty sure none of the other shows I have seen lately has any significant Asian characters to begin with. Did I miss anything?
But all I can think about is how he makes us Asian guys all look like math-and-science nerds. Sorry kid, but at 12 you’re probably still too young fully to appreciate the complexities of race and stereotype and prejudice around you. It’s not something you can learn through algebra. So, enjoy the innocent pleasure you can still take in having accomplished something great, because in time you too will understand how everything you achieve is made ambivalent by the fact of your race.
Yo Eduardo - if you’re not using your U.S. citizenship, can I have it?
The Mass of Men Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation
What’s more depressing than the sight of an army of 800 contract attorneys reviewing documents together?
"I swear, man, everyone in this city is on drugs. Absolutely everyone. And if there’s one guy who’s not, I bet he’s on painkillers."
— Crazy Cab Driver Who Was Definitely High and Almost Got Me Killed Coming In From LGA.
On Occupy Wall Street
“And he asked him, What is your name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.” - Mark 5:9
