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Another AAIFF observation: I asked FC what he thought of “Fruit Fly,” which he saw at AAIFF on this past Sunday. He liked it, although he said it’s of the musical genre – people suddenly breaking into song. But – to me – that is the point of the genre! I hope I’ll see it [...]

Hey Seattle, you want your weather back? – I don’t want the 100 degrees that you’ve been having (sorry but we had that a couple of years ago, and that wasn’t fun), but I’ll take a sunny dry 90 over monsoons (even if it is not hot). Helen Hong, comedian and television producer, brings to [...]

Jackie Chan Kaspersky 2010 Ad Source: www.youtube.com     I hope Jackie's getting a lot of money for being in this travesty…    

Asian American Int’l Film Festival in NYC: Thursday – missed seeing “Paper Heart.” It got sold out. Friday – 72 Hour Shootout – on YouTube. The Asian American Film Lab announced the Top Ten. (with a cross-posting by Angry Asian Man). The winner: “Time’s [Not] Up” – I liked it. Poignant. Number Two was “Grace [...]

Desperately Seeking Stephanie – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com Source: artsbeat.blogs.nytim… At Green Day's show at Madison Square Garden on Monday, Billie Joe Armstrong announced that he needed someone on stage who could play the guitar. Who was the mysterious Stephanie he found in the mosh pit?     Random fan gets picked to play guitar on stage [...]

Stand on the Soapbox time: I read this Michael Daly column in the (dead tree) Daily News newspaper. He made good points: NYC is not South Dakota, nor should we apologize for having some questions for people who carry concealed weapons (for instance – why is your weapon concealed? Are you up to something other [...]

2009 72 hour film Shootout results Source: www.youtube.com     Congrats to all of the winners of the 72 hour film shootout – great stuff this year!    

Okay, I’m slightly behind, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s still the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 and the moon landing. Great Time article about the astronauts. Saw “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” on Sunday at the Cobble Hill theater. It was a decent adaptation. It’s not going to satisfy everybody, but it [...]

Summer in the city. A look at a life of a Chinese immigrant in 1923 – fascinating stuff! Imagine if it were Yoda dealing with the confirmation hearings; now, you don’t have to, because a law professor does it for you; hilarious posting on the Balkinization blog. The passing of Walter Cronkite; they really don’t [...]

I’m not nearly watching as much of the US Supreme Ct. confirmation hearings as I’d like. The Slate coverage/commentary has been pretty solid (ex., Emily Bazelon’s noting how Sotomayor goes into the context of her speeches – wherein she’s trying to motivate women and minority law students). But from what I saw, I do wonder [...]