Comments on: Taste the Linsanity

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:00:55 +0000

Hello Margaret –

My comment isn’t related to your post, which is amazing but unfortunately I’m not witty nor insightful enough to add to the discussion.

I just want to say I really love you and your work. My Cho-dependence started when I was 14 and watched ‘Revolution’ on IFC, my TV turned down as low as possible to avoid detection from my extremely conservative Jehovah’s Witness mother. I’m 23 now and I just recently started reading your blog. You are so talented – it should be physically impossible for a single person to be as talented as you are.

Your words and experiences really connect with me. Watching your stand up and reading your blog is the only time I don’t feel so completely alone.

I mean all of this in the least creepy way possible. I’m just starstruck at the thought that you might read this. We should TOTALLY be pen pals. That is sooooo not creepy either.

By: Brian J. Heck

Brian J. Heck — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:20:14 +0000

First of all, amen on the Phish Food!! It doesn’t get much better than that.

Secondly, my understanding is that this is not a packaged ice cream, but is only being sold at one Scoop Shop at Harvard, where Jeremy Lin went to school. Initially the lychee-vanilla ice cream was served with fortune cookie pieces on the side, to be used as a spoon to scoop the ice cream up with. The cookies, however, proved to weak and soggy, and so they were replaced with waffle cone bits.

Now THAT sounds delicious to me. I love waffle cone, and I love lychee … I don’t care who it’s supposed to be “honoring.”

By: pretzel salt

pretzel salt — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:20:11 +0000

I love your contrast between fortune cookie as an easy/inadequate symbol pf Asian-ness, and real fortune cookies as you and your real Asian family experienced them in real life.

Miss Margaret, I just want to say that I’ve been a fan since “I’m the One That I Want,” but it was only a few months ago that I began reading your blog, and I’ve finally realized that in addition to being a great comedian, actor, and activist, you’re a FANTASTIC writer. A really powerful, strong, intelligent writer. You just keep getting better.

By: Russell Miller

Russell Miller — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:17:54 +0000

Unintentional racism is a difficult problem. I have been filled with all kinds of ridiculous notions about races, since childhood. I often find myself being unintentionally racist. Until it is pointed out to me, I am often oblivious to it. I suppose the best solution is to treat each individual as an individual instead of a race. But I find cultural differences to be fascinating and I love the diversity of the human form. To point that out isn’t necessarily racist. For me, racism demeans and hurts. It is true that white people are clueless much of the time. Educate us. I am open to being educated. Then the faux pas is less frequent. This problem inhibits communication. Many times I have kept quiet, because I wasn’t certain that what I had to say was appropriate. We can learn from our mistakes, and understand what is appropriate and kind.

By: Mike G.

Mike G. — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:14:32 +0000

I just want to say that I really enjoyed reading this blog. It was beautifully written.

More than your posts about tattoos, clothes or motorcycles I like to read your posts about understanding your culture (and Asian culture in general) and the phenomenon of “Linsanity,” which I think is rediculous (not minimize Jeremy Lin’s talent on the BB court). I think I learned something new today!

By: dolly

dolly — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:32:57 +0000

I guess all of this doesn’t bother me in and of itself, but what bothers me is the different levels of sensitivity displayed toward different races. I mean, if Ben and Jerry’s had put bits of, say, fried chicken* in an ice cream to honor someone who is African American I don’t think we’d ever hear the end of it. And no mainstream news source would ever run headlines like “has society become too oversensitive with race?”

*just ignoring for a second that fried chicken in ice cream would be disgusting.

By: Silenus

Silenus — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:43:26 +0000

In 1964 a friend took us to see a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco, very likely this one:

http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/attractions/ggfortunecookie.html

You could look into it from an alley between Grant and Stockton, and see a woman taking the circles of baked dough from the conveyor belt oven and fold them over steel rods into fortune cookies. We watched for some time, another mystery of the universe unraveled.

By: kalalaumango

kalalaumango — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:44:16 +0000

imagine if all of the museums in the world were filled with paintings by number — i’m not saying that binary code hasn’t fucked things up, but imagine all of those canvases filled with mundane needle point and the limited parameters of numbers — now, that would be a new paradigm. i’ve seen it — no thanks. have a gorgeous day — breathe — and LIVE. so endearingly, amusingly lovely and spot on.