Alpha Asian

Recently MaSir Jones of the blog Destroy and Rebuild decided to call it quits.  Sort of sad, really, because there aren't too many blogs devoted to the Asian American male (AAM) perspective.  Now there are plenty of AAM bloggers.  Guy Kawasaki is probably the most popular.  But there just aren't a lot bloggers who talk about and advocate for respect for the AAM.  Plenty of AAM bloggers who talk about other things.  Plenty of AA bloggers who talk about Asian American issues in general.  But very few advocate for the Asian American male.  Ben Efsaneyim is really one of the few AA bloggers out there talking honestly and meaningfully  from the AA male viewpoint. The fact that another blog bites the dust shouldn't come as a surprise.  The AA blogosphere is coming to an end , in my opinion, and we're going to be left with just Angry Asian Man.  Phil Yu has been doing an awesome job all these years, but frankly h...

I recently talked with former Green Beret Gene Yu about his latest book  Yellow Green Beret, Volume 2 .  We touched upon a number of topics, such as hazing in the military and Private Danny Chen. Another topic we discussed was how everybody knows who the Navy SEALs are (thanks Demi Moore and Charlie Sheen!), but nobody knows what the Green Berets do.  Here's what Chester had to say about the issue: "The U.S. Army Special Forces likes to call themselves the 'Quiet Professionals.'  We pride ourselves on doing our jobs, not saying anything about it, and then just melting away in the dark like those scary blobs in the Patrick Swayze movie Ghost.  We don't brag; we don't show off... "But I actually think that this total embrace of the 'Quiet Professional' attitude and culture hurts Green Berets.  Why?  Because nobody knows who we are or what we do!  "I literally want to punch myself in the groin every time I've been cornered in ...

This is absolutely hilarious! Thanks to Ben Efsaneyim and M. Wei for this one.

Okay I admit, I didn't know who David Choe was until the story about his giant fortune from Facebook stock went viral, and even then, I wasn't really interested....until James posted the Dirty Hands trailer. At this point of my life I was just really frustrated by the fact that I was so tired from work that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't think of ANY ideas for my writing and art projects. Explained on this post here . Dirty Hands is basically a compilation of footage by David Choe's best friend, Harry Kim, for around a decade or so, filming his road of becoming some punkass kid with the obsessive compulsive urge to tag everything and anything to a punkass adult with the obsessive compulsive urge to tag everything and anything... that makes a shit ton of money. If you're watching this movie with the expectation of seeing the clash of an Asian-American following his dreams versus traditional Tiger Parenting, you're in for a disappointment. You...

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