Some shows like Gossip Girl and So You Think You Can Dance are jumping the shark.
SO MANY SHARKS BEING JUMPED!!! :(
A Two Month Conversation On YouTube
Date an Asian has inspired 697 comments thus far – some loving, some passionate, some utterly bat shizz cray-cray, and an unexpectedly large number about whether Ph(F)ilipinos are “Asian” or not. It was like one loooong conversation with the public as one schizophrenic-ass commenter.
A Two-Month Conversation On YouTube
by Jen Kwok and YouTube Commenter
Asian American Warm Fuzzies
So I haven’t posted in a loooooooong time, due in part to an excuse, some other excuse and a variety of additional excuses I just made up because the first two seemed a little broad and inadequate.
The past couple of weeks, I did two of events that were completely awesome and happened to be rooted in the AA/APA community (and like LGBTQXZ-1, I’ll probably never take the time to figure out what the most inclusive acronym is).
The first event was Page Turner, The Asian American Literary Festival hosted by The Asian American Writer’s Workshop. I was part of a panel called “The New Eclectics”, which also featured the amazing and fun Sesshu Foster, Porochista Khakpour and Ed Lin. All the Asian American literati were there, including the highly decorated/awe-inspiring David Henry Hwang and Jhumpa Lahiri! Last night, I was also part of the line-up for Columbia University’s Cultureshock, hosted by their Asian Amerian Arts Alliance, which had everyone from uber-sexy FR3sh dance crew, and my comedy homie Eliot Chang, who just taped his Comedy Central Presents.
I’m not going to venture to explain what AA/APA/AAAAAA/AZN writing or entertainment is, but it’s clear to me that there is a certain recognition and community when you’re in a room full of people who share the same life-long identity crisis. We’re not post-racial, but I *think* we’re past Phase-1 rice jokes, and I know that I’ll write many more songs where the biggest laugh does not occur after the world “bubble tea”.
Even 5 years ago when I was in college, I don’t think there were as many established Asian performers out there that I could watch or read or visit the abandoned MySpace pages of.
Finally. Warm Fuzzies.a