Triscribe

Happy Year of the Dragon…  May it be auspicious for all of us! In the NY Daily News: an article on the question of why NYC Chinatown still doesn’t have its own arch.   I posit that inertia, money, and lack of actual analysis (of where to put it and how to drive the tourists to [...]

… and Probably Should Get the t-shirt to express the survival. Thankfully not so bad; we fared okay. New Yorkers insist on grumbling, of course. Look, I’m not going to second-guess the order to evacuate the coastal areas of the city or whether MTA didn’t need to shut down service. Hurricane Irene could have been [...]

At least the hype (hopefully hype) is exciting. I even got kicked out of the office early, but I work in Zone A, which got ordered a mandatory evacuation and the building’s landlord was turning off the electricity at 5pm. The following embedded video was from a friend of mine, MW. I share it as [...]

Last Friday: saw Kung Fu Panda 2. Great movie – entertaining; great art. I thought it was missing a scene (plot-wise), but otherwise fun. However, I do wonder if 3D is going to be everything… Emil Guillermo posts on the AALDEF blog about the retirement of Shaquille O’Neal (recalling the anti-Asian problems of Shaq) and [...]

Over at wnyc radio: on why NYS has no South Asian elected officials – maybe it is a matter of time. Listen also below, the embed of the audio: NY1.com has its APA Heritage coverage – for a week… – still, interesting things: A profile of Corky Lee, the photographer of the NYC APA community. [...]

Well, the last week of 2010 hit NYC with a mallet, with the Day After Christmas Blizzard and the horror stories that came after it.  I suppose the pleasantry was short lived – you can have all the cooperation and Christmas spirit and good will and fun in the snow.  Then, comes the crushing reality: [...]

A-Team and The Karate Kid!  Oh My God – it’s the return of the 1980′s, in a revised kind of way. I got to see The A-Team movie; nothing perfect, but if you liked the old tv series, this was a fun.   Plot made no sense; but what was there was an origins story of [...]

The annual viewing of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” special tonight, plus a viewing of the more obscure “You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown,” wherein Linus loses his lead in the class president election with his broadcasted belief in the Great Pumpkin (and Lucy learns that it’s very hard to be the campaign manager). Hat [...]

Judge Denny Chin nominated for 2nd Circuit! Angry Asian Man posts his comment on it (which includes the White House press release). Open House New York, this weekend! The radio transition in NYC on Thursday night, 8pm – WQXR signing off to a new channel, with farewell from the NY Times, as it’s about to [...]

As a follow up to Primary Day, I voted on Runoff Day. As reported, Bill DeBlasio is the Democratic candidate for public advocate and John Liu is the Democratic candidate for comptroller. More importantly, for NYC history, Liu is on the path to becoming the first Asian American in citywide political position. Time writer Ling [...]