Wednesday, April 25, 2007

People try & put us down (talkin' 'bout my generation)

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Toussaint wrote about the Ali quote I posted yesterday. On 4/25/07, Toussaint wrote: Our generation cared more. Yeah, we did get high and wa...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Too Black, Too Strong

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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-call...
Sunday, April 22, 2007

Reading: Freakonomics, iWoz & The Blindside

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Read three books this month: Steven Levitt's (with Stephen Dubner) "Freakonomics," "iWoz," the eponymous autobio by ...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

Huh???

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Ironically, it's not as hard to read good players as it is to read a bunch of incompetents. -Sklansky If they don't know what they...
Monday, March 26, 2007

"...the Asian man isn't as respected in our society as he should be... He is often ridiculed, but rarely taken seriously," Daniel Negreanu said.

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Those who know me know that I like poker. I've been playing since I was a kid when I'd hang around watching my uncles play stud - l...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

The Mads of March

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Those of you who don't speak Hoopanese, I apologize, but I'm gonna talk a bit - just for a bit - as the second round of my favorite ...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

Little Miss Sunshine

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Because of its charm and guise as a "comedy" - as satire or black comedy, depending upon who's commenting -  Little Miss Su...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Colonize This

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Just a quickie on this APA gal who works nearby at a restaurant. She's really good looking - and knows it. She feigns modesty and, dur...

The New Trinity: On Community Building, Sustainability and Green Tech

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A lot of talk is going 'round about "sustainability" these days along with "green tech." Already I can see the pote...
Thursday, March 01, 2007

La Cebolla: Norah Jones Releases Debut Album For Third Time

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La Cebolla is funny. Consistently funny, as in, " Thousands More Dead in Continuing Iraq Victory : America marks three and a half year...
Friday, February 23, 2007

Remembering DJ

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I felt a punch to the gut when Fish delivered the news yesterday morning; DJ, Dennis Johnson, died suddenly yesterday at 52. Even though DJ ...
Saturday, February 17, 2007

"What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics," Barack Obama said.

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Since Barack is now gathering heat, I thought it was interesting that he's still way behind Hilary amongst blacks. So during poker last...
Thursday, February 15, 2007

"I sunk the fingers of one hand into his eye socket and gripped the spear shaft protruding from his head with the other," Rell Sunn said.

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Like many APAs and particularly Japanese Ams, Hawaii is an ancestral docking. Although I'm a city boy through and through, I feel great...
Monday, February 12, 2007

The Hollywood Lottery Files: Confederacy of Dunces

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" You fail upward here ," an agent said. ========================================= Some of you are familiar with the work I do wit...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men

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I've listened to a couple of Guillermo del Toro interviews and really like him as a person, but I've heard mixed things at best abo...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Dumbya Year 6 State of the Union Speech

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State of the Union

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Tribute: GOAT @ 65

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For a little APA boy coming up on the mean streets of East Los in the turbulent 60's/70's, sports provided an out. Not as a realist...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Invasion of the Mud Peeps, or, Hoi Polloi as Hoity Toity, Xmas Party 06

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I wanted to write about Fish and I at her company's Xmas party with some distance because, well, if I had written straight away I'd ...
Monday, January 15, 2007

MLK Day

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MLK isn't a revered hero of mine, certainly not on par with Huey, Cesaire or Malcolm, however, this being his b-day I thought I'd th...