:EDUCATED IN THE WEST

The bearded guy looks a bit like my old high school teacher Bob King. He acts like him, too. Who knows, maybe it is Bob King, the baddest mo-fo Sacramento High School has ever known.

Let’s play a game. Imagine an academic department and imagine the graduate students in it. The department is just plain absurd as are some of the graduate students. How absurd? Well, like I said, let’s play a game. Match the imaginary graduate student description to the award or job(s) that [...]

If Bob King, my old high school art teacher, actually played and coached football, Sportscenter might look a little something like this:

Which band member is more yanked-up?
1. The double bass player in this video (”Aww, let’s pick it now, chillens!”)

2. The drummer in this video

With the election of Barack Obama, many people of color consider that the United States now, for the first time in their lives, has a President who “looks like” them in a figurative sense. I understand this sentiment. I also feel a connection to Obama because of his connections to Asia, his minority [...]

Well, I think we can all agree that it’s about time someone made a movie about Chief Rockediller’s storied career as a crime fighter:

Damn, Commander, leave some for the rest of us.

Did you know I used to do mixed martial arts? Yep, here I am in a match that didn’t turn out so well for me. Do you like my overalls?

Okay, it looks like when they make my life story into a movie, they’ll be able to cast two parts right away. So you know about the guy playing Commander Plaza:

But now I give you the man who will play Guinness:

Of course, the competition to play me is intense. Currently in the lead [...]

My 35th birthday is less than a month away and I’d be lying if I told you that I wasn’t somewhat distressed by that fact. Is it possible that I’m getting more vain as I get older?
As one of my 20-year old friends said to me: “Tojo, you’re too hung up [...]

Can you keep a secret?
I infiltrated an online dating website and found my friend’s profile.
Contrary to what you might be thinking, I wasn’t visiting the site for myself. For various reasons, I had suspected that this friend had activated a profile and I was right, finding his profile on the second page [...]

“Oh, no! What’s he goin’ for here? The Barack Bottom?!”

Hillary and Barack get introduced to the “Samoan Spike” and the “Samoan Drop.” I mean, really, where was the Secret Service?

I give you pics of three women (all single, late 20s to early 30s) traveling together in tropical southeast Asia. Raise your super-sensitive social antennae and tell me something I might not know about the people in these pictures. Any thoughts or, um, insight?

Anything?
How ’bout this one, since it’s in keeping with the post’s theme [...]

Is that you?

In some alternate universe, there’s a Bizarro Chief Rockediller. Instead of living on the West coast, he lives on the East coast of the Bizarro America on his Bizarro planet. Bizarro Rockediller is not a chief, but he’s a meter maid-type who patrols the Bizarro Baltimore water front in a humiliatingly small vehicle. [...]

An undergraduate friend of mine posted some pics on her website. The newest set of pics are from her visit to a new Asian cafe which serves a variety of non-alcoholic drinks–coffees, boba, teas and what not. The cafe has a large selection snacks and desserts, too. Like at a lot of [...]

So, I was watching Warren’s astronomy show on the History Channel and I left the TV on after it ended. A show about Krakatoa came on followed by a show about American holiday dishes like Turducken, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, etc. Both shows were interesting, I thought. Among the dishes I’ve [...]

Where was this video when I was studying my vocabulary for the GRE?!

I know several people who have gotten tattoos in the last several years. Personally, I don’t really care for tattoos. Once, when I mused ridiculously about getting Sanskrit tattoos on my back, my dad mentioned offhand that a lot of his Royal Thai Army friends who had obvious tattoos didn’t advance very far [...]

Product marketing for this summer’s new Transformers movie goes over the edge.

Looks like someone got a hold of my old math tests.

Have you ever encountered a name that just made you stop in your tracks? For example, my high school French teacher knew a Dick Dangler–though judging by the clothes that she wore to teach class, she probably knew a lot of dick danglers. Also, I went to school with a Chris Dork who, [...]

When I was an attorney, I attended fewer than five depositions, which means that I never got used to doing them. I remember my first one. It was in San Pedro. We represented a third party (a bank), but I was to depose the paramour of the plaintiff in the case. [...]

Sometimes news intersects with my life in an unexpected way. Today is a case in point. Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin passed away from heart failure at the age of 76. Yeltsin (as icon) is perhaps best remembered for standing up to a hardline coup attempt in 1991, back when there [...]

So, I was in Sacramento and got to try out the Nintendo Wii for the first time at Guinness’ place. It’s a wonderful machine, especially when set up with a 50-inch plasma screen television. I had a wide selection of games to choose from, but I ended up gravitating towards some of the [...]

If you were interested in my entry about former yokozuna Akebono going into K-1 mixed martial arts fighting, then this might interest you.
Have you ever heard the name Konishiki? Yes, he’s a sumo wrestler of Hawaiian descent. Saleva’a Atisanoe is his birth name and I guess that’s what he goes by when he’s [...]

American society has become completely sick, demented and depraved!
Oh, wait. Never mind about that.

So, I heard Britney Spear’s got a new hummer. Well, maybe not brand new. Judging by the looks of it, the thing’s been bashed in a few times. Yeah, I heard about Britney showing off her undercarriage to the tabloid-reading public, but I didn’t know what to think until I actually got [...]

I was cruising around YouTube again and came across this black and white tape from 1977. It was taken back stage before Elvis’ concert in Rapid City, South Dakota. Elvis gets an award from the Mayor of Rapid City in recognition of his status as the first entertainer to perform in the town’s [...]

Seen on an online casting board (via Angry Asian Man):
Lost
Episode #309
ABC/Touchstone
Casting by: April Webster, C.S.A. and Veronica C. Rooney, C.S.A.
Have your agent submit hard copy to:
April Webster and Associates
Burbank, Ca 91506
[Chet] Mid 30’s, protective brother from Thailand. Should speak Thai.
Starts: November 6th, 2006
Location: Hawaii

At some point during the Rex-SEB reception dinner last month, I scribbled this picture on the back of the little slip of paper used to indicate the number of the table at which I was seated. No, I wasn’t bored. I was having fun. Doodling’s just what I do, man. What’s [...]

Well, it was a long shot, you have to admit. Today, primary elections in Nevada were held and, quite unfortunately, EITW-backed GOP candidate for Governor Melody Damayo (aka Mimi Miyagi) failed to secure her party’s nomination.  As regular readers know, Damayo has spent much of her career as an adult film star and because [...]

It’s getting harder and harder to do anything now that I’m in this funk. It’s a sort of malaise. I can’t really do much about it right now. I’m not depressed, but I’m just a bit negative about all things. Maybe it’s this job. Five months now. I don’t [...]

I guess that by now almost everyone has seen Japanese Prime Minister Jun’ichiro Koizumi, the Land of the Rising Sun’s #1 Elvis fan, hamming it up at Graceland with his various Elvis poses. Like yours truly, the PM is a big Elvis fan. For him, the highlight of his recent state visit to [...]

What’s that they say? It’s something like how you can tell a lot about a society by looking at its prisons. Who said that? Was it Tocqueville? I know he studied prisons and is quoted a lot, so I’d put my money on him. Whatever. I say that you can [...]