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Asians really want to be friends with me (a half-Asian)
December 5th, 2008 • 4 comments general
Tags: asian, facebook
I have 28 unanswered Facebook friend requests from people I don’t know. They’re nearly all Asian and live in Asia, so I’d expect them to have lots of Asian friends. But, weirdly, they seem to only have friends that are Asian girls. Sometimes hundreds and hundreds of them. My name doesn’t sound Asian, so I guess they’re just going through pages and pages of girls, hitting ‘add’ on anyone that looks Asian.
Here are some screen shots:
Here’s Hendra.
And here’s Hendra’s top friends. Sidenote: Thin Jessie would be a sweet nickname.
It looks like Ken might have a kid.
But that won’t stop him from getting to a 1,000 Asian girls.
Brian Giga looks like an Asian Crispin Glover.
His friends look like Asian girls. Even Max has lady glasses. Also, Owen is such a good girl’s name.
No idea if he’s Asian.
Friends.
Is anyone else getting Facebook racial profiled? I should change my Facebook photo to this old picture of me. My friend said I looked “very Japanese” here, whatever that means:
Is Magnolia Bakery a landmark?
December 3rd, 2008 • 1 comment general
Tags: band on the street, village voice, welcome wagon, writing
Look closely at this Google Map. Why is Magnolia Bakery on here like this? I wasn’t searching for it. Has it been given landmark status? If so, I would guess that it commemorates New York’s domestic immigrants, small town girls who come to New York seeking a better life through H&M, Gawker, no-wage internships, and vanilla on vanilla cupcakes. I used to eat that crap for dinner when I worked for CMJ Magazine ($15,000/yr+Metrocard discount).
Band On The Street Profile of Welcome Wagon in this week’s Village Voice
December 3rd, 2008 • 1 comment asides
Tags: band on the street, village voice, welcome wagon, writing
I wrote a Band On The Street on Welcome Wagon for the Village Voice. They are the nicest band in the world, probably because they didn’t start out as a band, but as a married couple. I’m working on a review of another couple band. I am sorta grossed out about how cute every couple band is.
Kings of Convenience Progress Report on Sgum
December 2nd, 2008 • 1 comment asides
Tags: kings of convenience, progress report, stereogum
Kings of Convenience Progress Report went up yesterday. ØØØ!
Thanksgiving recipes / review aggregation
December 1st, 2008 • general
I thought about how I use reviews over the holiday weekend.
I went online to find vegan Thanksgiving recipes (I’m not vegan so I have no idea how to cook for them) and noticed that the only recipes I considered making were ones that had online reviews. I skipped recipes from the Food Network and picked ones from either blogs that had comments, or from places like Post-Punk Kitchen, where readers rate the recipes with stars.
Later that night I saw “Twilight.” I saw it despite the reviews, based on the fact that actual viewers seemed to love it and that, aggregated together, its Rotten Tomatoes score wasn’t that bad. I didn’t read any individual reviews.
But I get angry that people don’t use critics or experts for their music purchases and I’ve argued against using Amazon or iTunes Genius to make decisions. I don’t know why I’m such a hypocrite.
I talked to 
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