June 2005 Archive

Oh yeah.

Flame war.

Over *blog* *documentaries*

As if the subject matter in itself, or the media production behind it wasn’t already kinda…well, self indulgently dorky.

Ever so true.

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Goodness I love Sinfest.

I have way too much affinity for Miss ‘Nique

For like her, I like to crush the souls of the arrogant.

…

Well, I’m also nice to folks who need an ego snack too.

Mostly I consider myself an ego equalizer. but with lipstick. Or something.

Yeah, never mind. That totally didn’t make sense either.

Forgive me. I’m having another Monday.

I have this theory. Within one’s lifetime there is only a finite number of “Monday’s” that one must endure. As such, knowing that my current stage in life has a load of frontloaded “Mondays”, this must mean that I either wasted a bunch of Fridays-Sundays from my youth or I got a heapload of them coming at me later on.

I think I got some week long Sundays’ owed to me that I can’t wait to cash in on.

Instead, I think I’ll think rather swirly.

I mean, in the vein of Vin Diesel or something.

Keep clicking refresh until you wet your pants.

(Via Jason)

tagged: Min Jung Kim

Originally uploaded by Laughing Squid.

Just for clarificaiton:

The name is Min Jung Kim. Two Words, No Hyphen. Only one K and only one G.

*sigh*

Also, for tonight. You should go. It’ll be hella dope.

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San Francisco People’s Organization Convention Kick Off Party

Friday, June 3
111 Minna Gallery
6-9pm
$5-10 sliding scale, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Hosted by Matt Gonzalez, San Francisco People’s Organization and League of Pissed Off Voters

Speakers: Ross Mirkarimi and Chris Daly

Performances by:
SHAILJA PATEL, Kenyan Indian Slam Poet Champion
ISE LYFE, Slam Poet/MC and Youth Organizer

STROLL PATROL, Island Indie Reggae/Punk Rock Band
JIMMY TRAN, Def Poetry Jam Poet
DJ LOVELEE, LoveSo’ Sessions DJ

and more!

More Artist Information:

Shailja Patel has appeared at the Lincoln Center, New York and venues
across the US and UK. Winner of national and Bay Area slam
championships, and keynote speaker for conferences at Yale and Brown
Universities, Shailja was Featured Literary Artist for APAture 2004,
the nation’s largest showcase of emerging young Asian Pacific artists.

“the new discovery…. the poet with an edge…infectious and endearing….addictive….”
Mantram magazine

“A packed Starr auditorium gave a standing ovation to slam poet Shailja Patel…”
Brown University Daily Herald

Ise Lyfe is a Bay Area native and one of the nation’s premier poet/emcee’s. Fusing Spoken Word and Hip Hop, he has a unique delivery and powerful content. Ise’s stage presence is awesome – Whether social or political, when addressing an issue he has a way with words that points out what really we already know yet seem to have a hard time acting on. With two national poetry slam competitions under his belt, and openings for artist from Dead Prez to Ben Harper, this young man is set to do great things.

Stroll Patrol, SF-based indie band, performs a unique blend of reggae and punk rock island-style (originally hailing from Guam and Maui). Performing with ukulele, guitar, bass and drums, they groove shows in SOMA and around San Francisco.

Jimmy Thong Tran is an upcoming poet involved with Theatre Rice, REACH, SASC, APASD, Proletariat Bronze, Asian American Theatre Company, and Youth Speaks. He is a member of the 2004 San Francisco Poetry Slam team and the 2004 National Collegiate Poetry Slam champions UC Berkeley’s CalSlam team. He recently taped for the 5th season of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam in New York.

But there will be rarely, if ever, be any posts re: cheese sandwhiches.

Porque yo soy muy lactose intolerent.

Shall I tell you the time that 4 asian bloggers shared a hotel room at SXSW and accidentally ordered a big fucking bowl of queso in texas?

Mull on that a moment.

No; seriously.

Let’s just say that it.was.not.pretty.

Me

Originally uploaded by minjungkim.

This, if you’ve never been here before, is me.

I realize in the last few days I’ve had a lot more folks come visit this little blog than I’ve had here in a while.

Swear to goodness, I’m not a stats whore, (er maybe… but not as much as I used to be) but the response has been a little near overwhelming. I’m glad you find me funny. And not just funny looking (corny joke: my brother uses that all the time and I just turn around and call him tubby mctubolard).

So I’m working on 4 hours of sleep and had to drive an hour to a 7:30 AM meeting today. Not fun to begin with. Plus on an empty stomach, and in desperate need of coffee. The combination of that along with anxiety and taking my medication dry this morning left my insides doing hiccups. Not *me* doing hiccups, but my insides. Which pretty much just turned into dry heaving and convulsing. Have you ever felt like your stomach had accidentally created a vacume inside your gut and you heave and cough until you finally let out a unfortunately untasty acidic recap of your last evening’s meal? While driving. In traffic. Not so fun. Hurray for mints. Anyway.

The day will get better. It always does, and at least it’s sunny and gorgeous outside.

I feel the need to recap with more detail a little bit about my personal stages/lifecycle in blogging.

Per the request of some new visitors, and a general comfort level with who I am both IRL and online, I’m opening back up my archives bit by bit. Patience.

And yeah, I know, my site has loads of broken links and it doesn’t validate. I stopped dating for tech support about 2 years back and what’s a girl to do otherwise, ye know? I’m a writer not a coder.

Re: my personal step #1.
I never even knew what a blog was until I met Ernie. He and I had written monthly humor columns over at the now comatose APA webzine called iistix (pronounced too sticks).

Actually, let me backtrack:

I was involved in a number of Korean American and Asian American professional organizations and had coordinated a ski trip in Tahoe during the winter of ’98. It was a blast, and during that trip I met Ki & Chris who had just started up that zine. While hottubbing with them (Clothes on! Nothing Kinky!) I convinced those knuckleheads to give me a column. Mind you, I had absolutely no column writing experience before. I’d written short stories and poetry and been published for that, sure, but writing a regular humor piece was a new experience. Ah, bet when you’re young and snarky and care free, you have content coming out of your ears.

It wasn’t long after I started writing at iistix that Ernie joined me there with his column. We became fast friends and fed off of each other’s utter bitchy snarkiness. During our marathon friendship we’ve gone on a few roadtrips together and done loads of dinner parties, gaming geek outs, and had general mischief.

My site was originally on Homestead. Yeah, homestead. The most painful UI for posting individual pages ever. But then again it was sorta wysiwig and since I’m not a programmer/developer/designer by trade, that’s where I started and my first few posts were about monthly.

Totally hideous. Wasn’t it?

I didn’t even use Blogger until Ernie invited me to be a contestant on his game SurvivorBlog.

Steps 2-10 followed in quick form after as I met other contestants from SB1, had late night flirty convo’s with people, registered a domain, put up a webcam (that was on my amazon wishlist) won an anti-bloggie award for being most often late to work (Still true!) and the following year for being the most stalkable (True!) and then went to SXSW where I made fun of people. (I should probably confess at some point that I was also part of the Falcon Crest-esque controversy around the Bloggie Awards a few years back for being a straight chick up for the GLBT nominations under the fag hag platform. (Ernie beat me. Damn panda).

Additionally,
I told Evan Williams that 1984 called and wanted their ripped jeans back. And somewhere along the line (not at SXSW) I got video footage of Mena Trott playing a banjo while cussing violently. I am also guilty of giving Matt Mullenweg his first sip of scotch.

The last time I got this many visitors to my site I think it was for the kissing meme at sxsw last year.

So now we know the truth about blogging:

Longevity, ballsiness, snarkiness, and scotch will get you places.

Oh yeah, and don’t forget the lipstick.

So anyway, yeah… Howdy!