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Lane Hirabayashi
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I'm not going to explain everything about this man. So just read this. Imagine, I went to SF State for a second, and although I can't say I had a great time up there, I did have a great teacher. This was way back in the 90s, and Lane taught an Asian American studies class that was probably one of the more memorable classes I took while in college. You'd think it would be...
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I'm not going to explain everything about this man. So just read this. Imagine, I went to SF State for a second, and although I can't say I had a great time up there, I did have a great teacher. This was way back in the 90s, and Lane taught an Asian American studies class that was probably one of the more memorable classes I took while in college. You'd think it would be...
Life on crutches sucks. The next two months is gonna be a big pain in the ass, I predict. The other day I went to Kmart to get some supplies. I was greeted by a mentally disabled employee who suggested I get one of those electric carts to cruise around the store with. Good idea. While I was waiting for the cart, the guy started to tell me how he became the way he was. Turns out when he was 16 he got jumped by 20 guys. He said the only thing he remembers is a baseball bat coming down on his head, arms and legs. The beating put him in a coma for four and a half years. I guess being on crutches ain’t so bad. In the pocket of his red Kmart vesthe had a picture of his African Gray parrot who can apparently sing almost any Bob Marley song. I told him he should shoot it and put it up on youtube. I’m thinking of going back there to help him do that. I would love to see his parrot sing “No Woman No Cry”.Didn’t think I’d ever be driving one of these. Moma Wu kept trying to jack it from me.Today I went to The Museum Of Natural History with my lady. She had to push me around in a wheel chair with a bad front wheel. The museum is not as cool as I remembered as a kid. I don’t remember the stuffed animals looking so dusty and fake. The gems where cool and so were the dinosaur fosils but the rooms and rooms full of fake animals were really lame. Seems with the high ticket prices they could at least get someone to dust off those dioramas. I think I’ll be hitting the Met or the Moma sometime this week. If this was my fibula, it wouldn’t have broke.
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Video game doc! Chasing Ghosts is a documentary about the best videogamers from yesterday. It’s amazing to see images of them then, and now. From heroes to zeroes in just a few years as games like Streetfighter came out and changed gaming forever. We’re talking about Donkey Kong, Centipede, Tempest, etc. It all started in a small town in Ohio, I can’t remember the name, but that’s where gaming happened. The doc is sort of in the vein of Dogtown, except no skating, it’s just machines and nerdy kids. I played games at arcades during this era at Captain Videos and like most arcades, it bit the dust somewhere in the early to mid 80′s. It’s sad how not one of these gamer dudes has a career in the current world of gaming. At best one of them is a stat keeping for game scores! He watches videotape of games! This is a worthwhile documentary and if you can see it, check it out. It’s funny, and at the same time sad, but the energy of the best games live on.
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Video game doc!
Chasing Ghostsis a documentary about the best videogamers from yesterday. It's amazing to see images of them then, and now. From heroes to zeroes in just a few years as games like Streetfighter came out and changed gaming forever. We're talking about Donkey Kong, Centipede, Tempest, etc. It all started in a small town in Ohio, I can't remember the name, but that's where gaming...
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Chasing Ghostsis a documentary about the best videogamers from yesterday. It's amazing to see images of them then, and now. From heroes to zeroes in just a few years as games like Streetfighter came out and changed gaming forever. We're talking about Donkey Kong, Centipede, Tempest, etc. It all started in a small town in Ohio, I can't remember the name, but that's where gaming...
Umeboshi wrote: (exerpted) Then I would be by the magazine racks thinking, “Thank god Giant Robot is still here, it’s the only cool Asian thing that actually lasts.” It really did give me great comfort to know it exists, especially during the times when it wasn’t cool to be Asian. As for the diversification of the business and the magazine, I think it is great and very smart. Any business is a risk and if the owners can diversify, it is only to their advantage. ———–> I guess your comment sounds great and all, but there are limits to everything. It’s sort of like in Heat, when Al Pacino meets Robert DeNiro, and like in the Killer when Chow Yun Fat meets Danny Lee, although they would be friends outside of their lives, they wouldn’t hesitate to shoot one another dead if they had to. Apply this to business too. Enjoy anything while it lasts, because at anytime, it can get shot down, even by me.
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