Pussy, Parents and Puppies
Friday, August 15th, 2008Here’s a cool interview from one of the coolest sites around!
Archive for the ‘In The News’ Category
The Cho Show: Over the Rainbow
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Here is an awesome Advocate article by my really cool longtime friend, Dennis Hensley. Aw… I love him!
The Cho Show - TV’s 2nd Asian American Family
Thursday, July 10th, 2008We did the TCAs yesterday and this was up on the LA Times!
Violet’s Piece
Monday, July 7th, 2008Lots of fun details from our wild night out from the lovely Violet Blue….
A Sexy Combo
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008American Apparel is probably the store I shop at the most. They are ubiquitous, with branches in every shopping area in every city I go to, and I can’t have enough leggings or boy briefs in bright 80s colors. American Apparel reminds me of an 80s store called “Units” which was all cotton lycra separates in coordinating colors that you could mix and match and never get wrong, kind of like adult Garanimals. I like American Apparel because anything you could buy there is wearable for an entire 24 hour period – like you can do everything in their clothes – including work out and go to bed – they are that comfortable and versatile.
Now they are selling Hitachi Magic Wands, and I think it is a genius move. The Hitachi Magic Wand is not only my favorite sex toy – it is the deal breaker in many a relationship. Its first appearance on the bed is a serious test for any prospective lover. They have to be able to work with the wand, wield it with some authority, or at least be able to learn to use the vibration to enhance their own moves. I think of it as a chance to be a Jedi, with your very own light saber and an all matching hot pink roller boogie shorts and tank top outfit with thigh high athletic socks!!! This is a very sexy combo – American Apparel and magic wands!
Loving California
Monday, May 19th, 2008Oh Califonia! How proud I am of you! I was born in San Francisco, and although I always loved my fair city, during the 80s I was seriously torn up because secretly, I knew I would eventually have to move to Los Angeles to begin my show business career. I had a deep crush on all of Southern California. Isn’t it funny when you can have a love affair with a network of small cities connected by freeways? So I cheated on San Francisco with Los Angeles, and I ended up marrying LA, but now I keep reigniting my San Francisco passion by returning time and time again.
Now I see you can love two cities, and you can love a whole state even more. Now that California has gay marriage, I feel like the whole state has been upgraded. The traffic seems lighter, cars moving faster, breezier through the streets because everyone is in a good mood making wedding plans in their head. It is unseasonably hot right now, but it isn’t unbearable, because the notions of freedom and equality are keeping us cool. The right to gay marriage feels like what it is called – just ‘right’ – and I can’t imagine living anywhere else right now!! yeah!!! And pride is going to rock this year – especially in San Francisco and Los Angeles - so if you live in another state, please come for the party!!!
Gay Marriage Legal in CA
Thursday, May 15th, 2008The ban on gay marriage in California has been lifted!! I can’t believe it. For everyone who has been working for this for what seems like such a long time it feels like a miracle. I am not sure what this means now. Can gays and lesbians get married in California? Today?!
Update: Ian and some readers updated me and said that in 30 days, gay and lesbian couples in California will legally be able to marry. I am absolutely thrilled!! Well?! What are you waiting for? If you have a longtime partner – now is the time!! If you have always wanted to be married here is your chance!!!! Yay California!!! Yay! Gay!! Marriage!!!
School of Burlesque on CBS
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Look! It is some of our beautiful friends from “The Sensuous Woman”… ah, I miss them!!!
White-out vs Yellowface
Monday, May 5th, 2008I haven’t seen the new film “21″ but I don’t plan to, which hurts a little, because I am a big Kevin Spacey fan. I liked him since he came to my 23rd birthday party with Jason Gould. The story of “21″ is based on a true one, about a group of Asian American kids who take card counting to another level and beat the house at their own game. It is a cool story about Asian Americans, and even though there are a couple of great young Asian actors in the cast of the film, they are only in minor supporting roles. Hollywood for some reason didn’t think that the film would be “marketable” enough with people who looked like the people who the story is actually fucking about! So because of this - the leads in the film are white!!!
That is right - the story, which was one about Asian American kids sticking it to the man has been stolen right from under us and given to white people. This makes me so fucking furious I can’t believe it. It makes me “railroad” mad. No fuck that – it makes me fucking “internment camp” mad. It is like they made a film about building the railroad or being in an internment camp and cast white people in it. It is up there with the casting of David Carradine instead of Bruce Lee in “Kung Fu” but it is actually worse because there was at least a slight attempt to make David Carradine seem chinky – well actually - I don’t know – what is worse? Yellowface or outright non-inclusion? Is it better to be made into a caricature or just plain invisible?
Hollywood is still racist, and even though there are a few more Asians out there making great television and movies and music and art - it just isn’t enough. I am a huge “Grey’s Anatomy” fan, and even though I think Katherine Heigl is totally hot and beautiful and a killer actress and Patrick Dempsey is truly McDreamy - to me, the real star of that show is Sandra Oh. She absolutely lights up the screen. I want to cry with pride and elation and excitement every time I see her. Here is someone who is so talented that she was able to transcend racial barriers - these weird ideas that Hollywood still hangs onto that Asian Americans can’t tell stories that aren’t directly related to their asian-ness – but Sandra, she is so good no one and nothing could stop her. I just keep thinking about that one scene when Burke leaves her at the altar and she is crying and pulling off her wedding dress. Don’t even act like you didn’t cry. I am crying just thinking about it. Omg - she rules. She is gorgeous and sexy and such a gifted amazing actress and I want to see her in some big blockbuster movie about a wedding sometime too!
Until that movie comes out I am going to make myself happy with Harold and Kumar 2…
National Day of Silence
Friday, April 25th, 2008Today is the National Day of Silence, which is about making sure LGBT kids are not bullied in school, and this year it will be dedicated to the memory of Lawrence King, a California pre-teen who was shot and killed by another classmate out of homophobic hate. It is an important day, because we need to protect our children. Kids aren’t always aware of what their hatred can do. It is just as deadly as grown up hate. Hate kills. And it hurts everyone.
I remember when I was in high school, and someone had written all this homophobic graffiti, identifying all these ‘lesbians’ in school, writing all the girl’s names in big letters all over the walls. It was really scary, like a witch hunt. Rumors started swirling about who else was a lesbian, and then my day came. One horrible girl named Kathi said that I had tried to kiss her on the lips, and I was really offended – because yes, I wanted to kiss girls on the lips, but not her! Eew! Kathi was gross! Of course she was not ugly, she was a beautiful girl who later became a real live anorexic model, but she was mean, with a long black dark streaky sandy gritty vein of meanness that ran through her like a shrimp, and that made her unbearably ugly to me. I was really mad about it and I was scared anyway because I knew inside that I was different, and that people were picking up on it was really frightening. This was in the 80’s, so we had no real understanding of gay pride. It only existed for adults then, not for kids. When I tried to defend myself against the rumors, people would say, “Why are you getting mad? If you are mad about it that totally means you are a lesbian and you love Kathi!” I don’t know if I cared about being called gay as much as I cared about people thinking I had bad taste.
In retrospect, I had it really easy. Kids didn’t have guns then, at least not in my school. Bullying and name calling was hurtful, but it didn’t kill you, it just made you want to die, which was bad too. When you are a kid, being thought of as different is so scary, and we just want to blend in, but if you are gay, you can’t always hide it. People pick up on it, and if they want, they can turn it against you. And the consequences can be deadly. I don’t want any more children to suffer because of this kind of ignorance and stupidity. Growing up is hard enough without having to fear being killed because of who you are.
It’s not a compound!
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Here is an amazing video made by my husband, Al. It’s not a compound!!!
Starving Dog in Art Exhibit
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008I got forwarded this email and I was absolutely horrified. I cannot believe it. It makes me so upset I can’t even deal.
Subject: Boycott Guillermo Vargas at the Biennial Centroamericana Honduras 2008
In 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death.
For several days, the ‘artist’ and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful ‘masterpiece’ based on the dog’s agony, until eventually he died.
Does it look like art to you?
But this is not all… the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the ‘installation’ was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.
PLEASE HELP STOP HIM.
http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html
It’s free of charge, there is no need to register, and it will only take 1 minute to save the life of an innocent creature.
Thank you for your time.
Polygamists
Monday, April 21st, 2008I’m so glad I am not a polygamist.
First of all, I don’t really like pie. I know that is weird. Pie is good, but for some reason, I don’t like to eat it because usually it is too hot and I burn my tongue, and it is too sweet, so it gives me a crazy sugar high really fast and then I am exhausted. Polygamists seem to eat a lot of pie. I am not sure if this is a known fact, but a pie seems to complete the polygamist outfit.
Which leads me to the outfit - even though pastels like baby blue, lilac and soft pink flatter me, I don’t want to wear the big shouldered prairie dress. Don’t get me wrong – I love “Little House on the Prairie” but only when it is kept in the realm of ‘drag’ and not worn every day for religious purposes. The shoulders are too wide and lambchoppy to make anyone look good.
I don’t want to marry anyone that much older than me. Not just because of the sex (which would be not so fun to begin with but at least old people finish either super fast or super slow) but because there would be nothing fun to talk about. How do you relate to each other? It would be boring!
I also don’t want to be a polygamist because then I would probably have to cook or clean and I don’t know how to do either of those things. Also I have terrible allergies, so if I had to live in any kind of compound situation I am sure I would die of a runny nose.
I feel really bad for all those children, because they are the victims who are only being punished again by being separated from their families, but how can they be saved from their fate unless they are taken away? The whole thing is super sad but it also makes you really grateful not to be a polygamist.
Jailed for Being Gay
Saturday, April 12th, 2008I am shocked and disgusted that the Egyptian government has put 5 men in jail for being gay!! That is horrible. I have been to Egypt to study bellydance, and I haven’t seen the homophobia clearly because all the men – gay and straight – walk in the street holding hands! They are all hanging all over each other, swinging arms linked by their pinkies! How could they tell who was gay and who was not? All the men act so physically affectionate with each other. They are way more demonstrative of their same sex love than they are here. It is crazy! I swear to God it looks like Gay Pride, or some kind of early 90s ACT UP protest, but they have it every day! What are they trying to say? Gay romance between straight men is fine, but against the law for actual gays?
Puppy Mills
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Oprah did an important show about the horrible business of puppy mills, which are “dog factories,” where female dogs are caged for their entire lives in order to churn out litter after litter, which are then sold at pet stores. It is an awful and cruel (not to mention disgusting and inhumane) practice. I am glad that Oprah shed some light on this situation, which has been going on for decades without anyone being able to stop it, even though animal rights activists have been protesting the entire time.
Puppy mills are horrible and should be illegal! Purebreds are available all the time at animal shelters, and can be adopted as puppies or older. As an old dog mother of three shelter babies myself, I think it is most rewarding to adopt an older dog, and it is also a lot easier. Puppies are so cute, but can be a tremendous amount of work, and they don’t stay little for that long. Older dogs are great – what you see is what you get! Even if you have your heart set on a purebred puppy, if you do a bit of searching, especially if you go to specific breed rescue groups, you can adopt one without a lot of hassle. I think shelters are the way to go though, because people discard their pets tragically all the time, or they don’t spay or neuter and wind up with litters that nobody wants. Animal shelters are full of squirming puppies who desperately need homes and you never know, your baby could be in there just waiting for you to come pick him or her up!
Please adopt pets from animal shelters or rescue organizations. You will not be sorry!