And it's another nigh-content-free day, I think. Elsewhere, Redpac has posted a review of last night's film, Beyond Barnes & Nobles. Or Borders. Something like that. I'm trying to erase the memory from my brainmeats. Its heart was in the right place, but. . .
Also, finally remembered to hit the site for Too Much Coffee Man, the current issue of which I picked up at Heartland Cafe a few weeks back. Which was when I ran into The Hotness that is Nina X, so there's possibly a humorous story to be made out of the fact that the cover feature was Karen Eng's Yellow Fever.
I used to think my heightened sensitivity to Yellow Fever was born of too many viewings of M*A*S*H, Twin Peaks, Platoon — movies and shows in which female Asian characters are either easily exploitable by white men or in need of rescue by them, or both. Think Josie Packard on Twin Peaks, who flees the arms of her (white) sugar daddy for her (white) knight in shining armor: Actor Joan Chen is made to seem most glamorous in her most weepy, wishy-washy, and pliable states; worse, she bases her actions in reaction to how she might be victimized next.[. . .] In my experience, the converse is that when the Asian woman in question doesn’t live up to one or the other of these specific clichés, it can be used as a defense or justification, as in, "Well, she’s Asian, but she’s a real ballbreaker" — which is sort of the intellectual equivalent of saying, "Well, she’s blond, but she’s really smart." That sort of reasoning feeds right into other, equally ridiculous stereotypes — like Ally McBeal’s Ling, an exotic-bitch cliché lauded by culture watchers as a breakthrough for Asian tv characters because she doesn’t conform to the "docile Asian" stereotype.
Or maybe not very humorous at all, actually. I shut up now, and probably should have several paragraphs ago.
Oh, and the title is from this absurd little game where you take a line from any of the Star Wars movies and replace a noun with "pants." Possibly more fun when drunk, but amusing either way.
I can't remember where you got that title from, and it's going to make me nuts until I do.
"I'm your pants, Luke."
"Well, perhpas you'd like it better back in your pants, princess!!"
"Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their pants."
"Short pants are better than no pants at all."
"Look, I want you to take them. I mean it. Take them. You need all the help you can get. They're the fastest pants in the fleet."
"But with my pants down, how am I supposed to fight?"
"There is a great disturbance in the pants."
"Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the pants."
"The pPants can have a strong influence on the weak minded."
"And I thought these pants smelled bad on the outside!"
"... as if millions of pants cried out at once and were suddenly silenced."
"C'mon, look, let's blow these pants and go home!"
"Only Imperial pants are so precise."
"We will deal with your rebel pants soon enough."
"The pants are closing in!"
"You'll get your reward. If pants are all you love, then that's what you'll receive."
"I got news for you, sister. I'm not in this for your pants."
"I've been looking forward to pants for a long time." ("I'll bet you have.")
"Many Bothans died to bring us these pants."
"I built these pants to smuggle cargo; never though I'd be smuggling myself in them."
"Begun, this pants war has."
"Your pants are very impressive. You must be very proud."
"I see you becoming the greatest of all the pants, Anakin."
The Asian sex bitch has been on the scopes for years. Someone needs to check their Scopes Feild Guide to The Exotic Others of North America. I'm having a lot of trouble buying that people really... ah hell, nevermind.
Lucy Liu is a typecast sellout and smart people know it.
I spend a week away from my bloglines and I miss fun with pants? Damn.
"Now witness the firepower of these fully armed and operational pants."
uppity-shinob, yeah, that jumped out at me when I read the article too. Think it's more than a few years old; TMCM mentioned they were reprinting/re-presenting it.
Where's Michelle Yeoh when you need her?
"No, Alderaan is peaceful, we have no pants, you can't possibly... "