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by Sylvie Kim

August 19, 2010 - Art&Culture

Antoine Dodson and When Memes Get Racial

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  I am probably the last person with Internet access in an industrialized nation to have not seen the Antoine Dodson "Bed Intruder" YouTube clip or the remixed…
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July 9, 2010 - Chillax

Toward a Post-Tool Society

On my most frequently used freeway exit -- which is perpetually backed up -- I always glance to my left and see a big yellow sign that reads:…
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July 9, 2010

Xenophobia, Thy Name is Stein

  Perhaps this is an unorthodox way to begin a post, but....   Dude. What a douche.   Time columnist Joel Stein -- in one of the most…
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June 28, 2010 - Art&Culture

The Last Hot-Airbender

  I'm gonna be honest: I could give a good god damn about The Last Airbender. I didn't watch the beloved cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender and…
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June 24, 2010

You Can't Have a Latino Village Without Christian Slater

Christian Slater is Latino, y'all! Defamer says he's not, but why else would he be cast in a "Latino comedy" with Eva Longoria about a magical realist Latino…
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June 24, 2010

Lost in Profane Translation

  We all wish we had a sonsaengnim like this guy. Via Buzzfeed, this Korean English instructor provides a much-needed lesson in how to interpret English swear words.…
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June 24, 2010

Minor Revelations

1. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Michael K from DListed is a genius.         Anyone who can make fun Catherine Zeta-Jones,…
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June 24, 2010 - Chillax

The Evolving Hotness of Norah Jones

Stop right there: I am not trying to exotify hapas and coo about how hawt hybrids are. I am extolling the hawtness of one person who happens to…
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June 24, 2010

Gender Imbalance Ruins Local Wank-fest

  I only learned about San Francisco's annual Masturbate-a-thon -- sponsored by the Center for Sex and Culture -- last year when a Japanese fella named Masanobu Sato…
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June 24, 2010

Ken Jeong Gets Emotional at MTV Movie Awards

  I used to blame my lack of funds to pay for cable as my excuse for not watching any of the MTV Movie Awards, but with the…
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June 24, 2010 - Art&Culture

The Family Bland

  I was reading this article from The Onion which pokes fun at David Simon's (The Wire, Treme) fictitious move to gritty dramas about happy, upper-middle-class white families,…
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May 27, 2010 - Art&Culture

Blackface vs. A Black Face

  In discussing Rihanna's new video "Rock Star," Gawker makes the startlingly acute observation that the singer sports blackface in her video.   A Black singer. Is in…
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May 26, 2010 - Art&Culture

The Bronzer Awards

  Hey, I don't know if you were aware, but... ...Jake Gyllenhaal is Persian. Pass it on...   In honor of this revelation, I've come up with a…
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May 26, 2010

DJ Soulscape and ‘More Sounds of Seoul’ | iamkoream

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Words cannot describe my giddiness at discovering DJ Soulscape and his revival of rare 70s Korean soul and funk music from the 1970s via a random haunt on
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May 26, 2010 - Chillax

The Unbearable Whiteness of Bay to Breakers

  This year was my first time attending Bay to Breakers, an annual footrace which is less so a running competition or more so an excuse for young-ish…
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