Archive for December 2006

31 Dec 2006 1134H

Food porn: Panera Crispani Pizza

Food porn was something I missed doing in the last year, just weren’t a whole lot of opportunities until recently, so I hope we can revive it this year.
In the last few weeks, within striking distance of Chinatown, a number of north-side and suburban creature comforts have appeared. The Target showed up about two years [...]

Read the rest of Food porn: Panera Crispani Pizza

Comments Off

25 Dec 2006 1239H

Mulan (Chicago Chinatown)

I think Mulan, located on the east side of Chinatown Square near Archer and Wentworth, has been open about a year now, or maybe it just seems that way. After particularly hard weeks at work, I occasionally like to pop by, regale myself of a very un-Chinatown-like “Kee Chan” branded experience just steps from my [...]

Read the rest of Mulan (Chicago Chinatown)

Comments Off

24 Dec 2006 2053H

It’s Christmas in California

I’m coming home from my hardest year
I’m making plans not to make plans while I’m here
And this life has been no holiday, a complicated situation
I’m fine with all my memories
Still I could use vacation
Jack’s Mannequin, “The Lights and Buzz”

Read the rest of It’s Christmas in California

Comments Off

22 Dec 2006 1843H

Microsoft to begin making amends for XBox 360 tech problems

Dean Takahashi of the San Jose Mercury reports that Microsoft is responding at last to users and bad PR on the XBox 360’s tech problems and so, the warranty’s being extended to one year, retroactively, and the $140 Microsoft was asking for in order to repair their poorly assembled hardware will be reimbursed to us. [...]

Read the rest of Microsoft to begin making amends for XBox 360 tech problems

Respond »

16 Dec 2006 2103H

Ghareeb Nawaz: a love letter. Kind of.

Ghareeb Nawaz, of 2030 W Devon Ave, Chicago, IL, the first time we met, I was driving away from another scorching Indian rendezvous, and when I locked my eyes on your beautifully scripted Arabic exterior, in white, red and green, lit by pink and green neon, I knew that it would be just a matter [...]

Read the rest of Ghareeb Nawaz: a love letter. Kind of.

Comments Off

14 Dec 2006 2050H

Eye-rolling Racist Rosie Responds To Asian American Rage

Sort of.
Rosie O’Donnell, you are such a hypocrite. You have the temerity to blast Kelly Ripa not even a month ago for a comment that wasn’t anywhere NEARLY as offensive as what you said last week and, by the way, you inadvertently outed Clay Aiken in the process. Taste the Rainbow!
Then, after thousands [...]

Read the rest of Eye-rolling Racist Rosie Responds To Asian American Rage

Respond »

14 Dec 2006 0503H

The Economist talks about Hizzoner

this week after he announced he would be running for, what is it now, Grand Archon-for-life? (It’s wireframe madness this week so you’ll pardon me if I step away from the usual design talk. ) Now that Pinochet is gone I suppose he can inherit that term. As soon as Jackson and Gutierrez won their [...]

Read the rest of The Economist talks about Hizzoner

Respond »

12 Dec 2006 0925H

Racist Rosie v. Asian America

She’s unapologetic. She thinks she was funny, and a lot of people in that audience, virtually all of them, thought she was funny too, because they laughed along. But we’re not laughing. I can only hope she is never the victim of a hate crime. But can we be blamed if someone did commit one?
Because [...]

Read the rest of Racist Rosie v. Asian America

Respond »

06 Dec 2006 0215H

One size does not fit all: McDonalds in East Asia

In the winter of late 91, early 92 I was a frequent visitor of the McDonalds in Kowloon and the New Territories in Hong Kong, mostly, as a lonely young expat who found it a little intimidating to eat alone in restaurants in Hong Kong and wanting to get a sense of Home. I did [...]

Read the rest of One size does not fit all: McDonalds in East Asia

Respond »

04 Dec 2006 1501H

Mark Bittman has a meltdown in SoCal’s Chinese suburbia

Look out folks. Bittman, the man who can teach you how to cook everything, according to his PBS television series, has twigged onto that stretch of the San Gabriel Valley we know as Chinese suburbia in Southern California: Rosemead, San Gabriel, Monterey Park, Alhambra, Arcadia. (We better not tell him about the bit of Chinese [...]

Read the rest of Mark Bittman has a meltdown in SoCal’s Chinese suburbia

Respond »

« Older entries