Wow it feels like forever since I last blogged. Actually my unplanned break started when I moved to my new place, where I’ve spent the last two weeks getting settled, gobbling up books, keeping tabs on the Olympics, exploring my new community, reflecting, and in general transitioning into my Servant Partners program. I’m probably gonna take another blogging hiatus as I’m traveling to Manila soon and I find most of my writing energies are being used for other forms of reflection. But for now…
ASIAN POP / Could Obama be the first Asian American president?
In fact, reading Obama’s absorbing 1995 memoir “Dreams from My Father,” it strikes me that the tropes that surround and define Obama can just as easily be read as those of another community entirely.
I’ve gotta say the idea this dude covers has kinda been sitting around the back of my brain recently. I don’t really think it ever got fleshed out though. Lately I’ve been dealing with a lot of cultural and cross-cultural learning, so perhaps that really triggered a connection with this article. It definitely strikes me that a lot of what Obama has to say I’d expect to hear from an Asian American. So yeah, interesting read.
Meanwhile, Lyricks has some new material over on his myspace. Love the music that brother puts out and hope more people check him out.
Lastly, I’ve been working on a google map of places I eat out in LA, kinda as a reference for friends new to the area and also for myself (I always forget certain places are around). Here it is, work in progress.
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Your rapacious restaurant repertoire is rather ridiculous.