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Wedding weekend threw me off, but I’ll be back Screaming with Vengeance.
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Martin and Wendy got married to each other yes, today was the day. Tons of relatives. 500 were at the Friends of the LA River site, then those same 500 at the great Empress Pavillion restaurant. Speeches, seafood, relatives and friends. It’s hard to sum up with the few minutes I have now. Ray Barbee band, Cover me Badd starring bro in law Carlos, and Whysall Lane played! We’re probably going to see Whysall Lane play tomorrow at the free show at the Echo. Martin and Wendy’s wedding weekend continues!
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martin’s getting married today! So is wendy!
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Myspace girl goes to meet some dude in the Middle East. Ok it’s all bad she’s 16, and meeting some 25 year old and all that is bad, but at the same time, this girl is tough. Right now, I’m sure anyone who’s reading this news is like crap, what a kook, what a bad guy for luring her there, etc etc. My viewpoint after the legalities, and fucked up ness is still being impressed with this young girls strength to go halfway around the world for some stranger. Someday, this young girl if she’s not dead soon, is that she’s going to do some interesting things. That’s the back of Bret, I don’t have a photo of his mug, but you can tell the type of guy he is. Skateboard shorts, crazy weird padding probably from skateboarding, and his t shirt. In other news, yesterday was the first loss by the GR softball team in 11 games. The team didn’t hit, it was a sad night. The bad parts is that you can find that one thing that would have changed the result to a win. There’s a few spots here and there, but it’s a team game, and in the end, there wasn’t enough hitting to make anything happen. There was some good parts to the game, the hustle of Bret was exciting. Sometimes, one bad play like the homerun bomb that went way over his head can make him look bad. He had a bad game right? No. His good parts, like his dive to first base to be safe scored a run or two. Pure hustle. If I were running, I would have been out. He made a catch in deep right field that maybe he wouldn’t have caught in the first season, it was a way up there. He also led the game off with a hit. Bret’s new to the game, and in a few seasons is turning into player. He’s fun to watch and currently leads off the tied for first place GR team. Why am I blogging about one dude? I have no idea except maybe I was impressed and inspired.
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I posted this in the lounge… Since I wrote so much, I figured why not, put it in here. 1) I don’t think this thread is stupid. I bet if I looked at a random 50 threads, this one isn’t near the top. Happy birthday ____ is a stupid thread, but I do like those. Maybe stupid means important since one actually has to think. I’m not sure. 2) Been reading this thread and it’s a hard thing to have a perfect stance. Keep in mind, it’s about Japantown (s) and not Chinatown, Koreatown etc. Japantowns seem to be dying, even Sawtelle is less and less Japanese American as time goes by. Little Tokyo, same, and so on. I think it makes a difference to be Japanese American and have this issue in front of you. I’m one, so I’ll give my 2 cents. Sorry it took so long. I do agree with yumyum, Monterey Park, etc, don’t need any saving. They’re actually still developing. It’s definitely on an upward trend. Koreatown, same thing. Pride isn’t a factor since a heavy percentage of that area is owned and operated by people from Asia. They frankly don’t care, since they just want to turn a buck and make a living off of thier own people. A lot of those places are only recently beginning to cater more towards Americans. In 75 years, we’ll see what gets said about that area. Will Monterey Park need to be “saved” at that time? It’s possible. Chinatown LA is another story… I’ll get to that later. The 75 years later thing is here for Japanese Americans who are in their 4th, 5th and 6th generations now. Japantowns are changing as a result. A joke between Greg, who works as the Japanese American market Safe and Save in west LA… occasionally I’ll ask where did ____ go? An answer we’ve said. “Oh, got married to a white person and moved away.” I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but with probably the highest rate of “out” marriage (I’ve heard it’s over 50% for women – less with men, since a lot won’t ever get married – back to that age old Asian women White man issue), Japanese Americans are turning hapa, and “blending in” with society the fastest. The need for a Japanese American community becomes less and less, and the need for suburbia that’s a better place to raise kids seems to go up. In the end, if you’re nearly a middle suburban American, why do you need a Japantown? I suppose it’s so you can buy the occasional grocerie (1 item – a bag of rice), eat japanese food which your suburban hood has, etc.. There isn’t really that much you need at this point. I have seen it with LA’s Chinatown. I know that area needed to be “saved”. And as I read in an earlier post, it is now just a tourist place and retains little of what it was originally for...
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