It Took Me Nearly 40 Years To Stop Resenting Ke Huy Quan

A terrific and thoughtful essay by Walter Chaw about internalized racism and why Ke Huy Quan is a great role model. As a Jewish man, I find this very relatable.

Given the choice of playing along or protesting, I played along. I’m great at the Asian accent as minstrelry. When I do it for my white friends even today, it never fails to bring a laugh. Assimilation was the goal, and even though I could never hide my physical difference, I could at least laugh along with their enthusiastic recognition of my perpetual alienness. I think I wouldn’t be a writer at all if I hadn’t dedicated all of my energy into being very good at English, my second language. If I couldn’t pass the sight test, perhaps I could pass the reading one. Humor branded me as not one of those “sensitive” Asians, as a guy who wouldn’t make you feel uncomfortable about asking where I was really from, and where I’m really from is Golden, Colorado. Golden is a mining town, and to this day and despite its profound gentrification, it still has a giant wooden banner spanning its main street that says “Howdy Folks!” I have spent most of my life trying to divorce myself from my parents’ culture. They’re both dead now and they went before I was strong and stable enough to repair any of the damage I did. Honestly, none of us ever had the emotional language to do the work.

“Here’s the Satirical Piece About [Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate] Jim Renacci His Team Demanded We Delete Because They Thought You Wouldn’t Think It Was a Joke. The parody had Renacci championing a ‘Constitutional curriculum’ for Ohio schools that would teach kids how to use leeches to treat dysentery, among other things.”

I updated my Mastodon bio. It’s very professional now.

How to Eat Dinner Even Though You Already Watched All Your Shows — I feel personally attacked by this article.

kottke.org turns 25. Congratulations, Jason!

Online privacy is important, and good for Reddit for defending that right against Marvel’s petty and childish demands.

Marvel angry about Ant-Man dialogue leak, demands names of Reddit and Google users | Ars Technica

Another photo of Minnie because why not?

Rotating sandwiches. That’s it.

Don’t date a man with a podcast.

I do not have a podcast.

Currently.

This is a great “about” page..

I thought I knew a lot about the early days of blogging, just from having been a blog addict back then, but I had never heard of textism or its author, Dean Allen, until I heard John Gruber discuss them on The Talk Show today.

Minnie spent Saturday morning to Sunday evening at Camp Bow Wow. She has a lot to process

JOB INTERVIEWER: Where do you see yourself in five years?
ME:

My brilliant joke about dog Viagra this morning did not get the acclaim I anticipated. I’m disappointed in all of you.

Gold. I’m wasting comedy gold on you people.

We went away Saturday night.

Here’s a view from our hotel window. I question whether this pastrami is, in fact, world famous.

I went to a party and the host had an elderly dog with a heart condition, being treated with Viagra. I took one of the dog’s pills and spent the rest of the night trying to hump people’s legs.

I was preoccupied while shaving this morning, and I realized when I was nearly done that I had shaved using soap instead of shaving cream.

And it was fine. No difference.

I feel I’ve been duped by the shaving cream cartel my whole life.

With Captain Shaw’s attitude, he’s definitely Generation X. Also, Vadic’s hair is awful She needs a spa day.

Shower thought: The 1968 episode of the original Star Trek that guest-starred Teri Garr is a Doctor Who ripoff.

That’s the episode where the Enterprise travels back in time to 1968, and encounters an advanced humanoid alien named Gary Seven, who may or may not be mucking around with Earth history.

And now I want to see an episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” featuring the Doctor, played by Matt Smith, and Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald.

While the dog and I were walking at the park, a gentleman wearing a Batman helmet and cape sped by on his bicycle.

I respected his commitment to cosplay, but he was going too fast, on a path used by both bicyclists and pedestrians, human and dog, and all ages and ability levels.

I’m trying Microsoft Edge as my primary browser, after hearing Federico Viticci rave about it on the Macstories podcast. He also loved Arc, but I need a browser that syncs with my iPad and iPhone.