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Name: Mike 2 Cents
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Interests: Golf, yoga, poker. Not necessarily in that order.
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Member Since: 9/21/2002

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Saturday, December 04, 2004

Cluster Ballooning

This is awesome.




Bruce Lee Fights Evil In Spirit

Our new homeland security czar credits Bruce Lee as Kato in "The Green Hornet" as his role model for becoming a crime fighter.

From The New York Daily News:
The hero of the show was a mysterious newspaper publisher named Britt Reid who battled bad guys on Friday nights in a two-season run that ended in 1967. But it was Reid's karate-chopping sidekick, Kato, played by the legendary Bruce Lee, that captured Kerik's imagination and sparked his interest in martial arts.

"I found something that tapped into deep pools of strength and self-discipline that I was just then discovering in myself,"


Friday, December 03, 2004

Home-wreckers and Whores

Not a great week for Asian American women representation on TV.

First, Julie Chen, the host of CBS's Big Brother, is publicized as the extramarital object of affection of Les Moonves, Viacom Vice-President/CBS Head.

Then last night, Apprentice Ivana gets fired for flashing her undies for money on the street. 

Sigh.


Thursday, December 02, 2004

Assimilate Or Die

Asians should know how to use chopsticks.  I feel very strongly about this.

Sadly, the culture war's battleground is fought on the dinnertable. Actually, all people should know how to use chopsticks. Chopsticks are so much more evolved than the poke and slice of a fork and knife. And if you think different, you've never seen my dad eat a steak with chopsticks. It's an art.

I remember my own dish, cup, utensil training set. There was a kid with two balloons on the plate and cup. My mom bought a pair of chopsticks with a matching flower design. It took me a hell of long time to figure them out, but it was definitely worth it. 

From Chosunilbo:

Professor Kim Phil-soo at Daelim College claims that 80 percent of elementary schoolchildren around the nation are inarticulate when it comes to putting two chopsticks together.

With the growing popularity of Western culinary culture's use of the knife and fork, manifested in the rise of U.S. food outlets like Bennigans and Outback Steak from Myung-dong to Kangnam, six in ten Korean adults are now unable to use chopsticks correctly, according to a recent study.

Professor Kim Phil-soo at Daelim College conducted a survey on the use of chopsticks on 252 adults aged 21-40 in November. Results showed that only 38 percent of the adults, split almost evenly between male and female, were able to use chopsticks in the correct manner.

A separate survey conducted on fifty fifth-grade elementary school students yielded a much higher rate of failure, with Kim discovering that 80 percent came unstuck when presented with two chopsticks.

Professor Kim blamed the new phenomenon on the rising influence of Western culinary culture.

He said that chopsticks require a person to use 64 muscles and 30 articulate movements simultaneously, which also acts in developing brain potential. He recommended that elementary school students be urged to master chopsticks.


Welcome To The Motel -- Enjoy Your Stay!

That's right, bi-yotches!  Every now and then somebody will post a comment or write me an email or stop me on the street and ask "What's up with your movie 'The Motel?'"   For a year or so now, my answer has been the same, "We are in post and as soon as it is done, I will make sure you know about it."

Well, now is that time, folks!  That's right. My film "The Motel" will be will be making its world premiere in the "American Spectrum" section at the Sundance Film Festival this coming January.  Book your tickets for Utah now.

It's been a long road to get my first feature made and I have been working really hard (as well as a lot of really amazing folks involved along the way). It's so good to finally be able to have people see the film. Hopefully, people will actually like it.

I'll keep you all posted on the developments. Soon, all of you people that were asking about it are going to be asking me to shut up about it.



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