Okay, okay, I'm on a roll. No, no, just let me say it: This flick moves at the speed of life. No, seriously, I get it: if you don't quite know how to make a movie make people feel something, then SLOW IT DOWN. Even if they don't feel something, the slow pace will convince them that there's some prof...

The joke is so obvious, I'm almost ashamed to make it. But cut me some slack, I had to sit through two hours of this stuff: This movie doesn't have a running time, it has a half-life. Okay, I got it out. Now: it's not that bad. Yes, slow pacing is something American audiences are allergic to, but th...

Sorry, but it's raining. I have no little sarcasm, and no made-up theme, for Hyphen Lynks this week. It's just the news, plus a few undigested opinions, from all over the place. Please feel free to insert your own sarcastic comments below. Or to suggest themes. Above, enjoy a vid of Our Tamlyn expla...

Perhaps more horrifying than last week's alleged assault on singer Rihanna by her boyfriend, singer Chris Brown, was the general response in blogs and comment threads, excusing Brown and other abusers, and even admitting to abuse on the part of commenters. Yeah, some people were saying that it was o...

Okay, at the risk of being called one of those whiny minorities for whom you can't ever do anything right, this new development in the Avatar casting issue is ... weird. And problematic. Via Derek Kirk Kim's blog, I found out that M. Night Shyamalan and Co. have booted Jesse McCartney, who was set t...

This article in the East Bay Express this week tipped me off to the possibility that that crazy ol' Obama Administration might pursue criminal charges against the torturers and privacy-invaders of the Bush monarchy after all. The idea of prosecutions is gaining momentum and popularity among the vota...

I know this isn't technically Asian American, but there are now reports that Israel is dropping white phosphorus, a substance that melts human skin to the bone, in Gaza over civilian areas, in contravention of international law. Israel had previously attacked UN aid workers, stopping aid missions to...

Image by Jenifer Wofford, from her series Flor de Manila y San Francisco 1973-78 While I was at my parents' for the holidays, I spoke with a friend of the family who had been helping to take care of my grandmother until her death this spring. This woman -- with nearly grown kids -- had just finished...

So. New Year, new Asian American president. New products. New TV shows. New parade. Woo hoo. Yeah, I’m excited but, four days in, the euphoria has kinda worn off. Now what? We don’t have a lot of moving forward news yet this year. Everybody’s waiting for the inauguration, and kinda ignoring th...

Via Broadsheet I saw this story about an Asian Canadian man who has invented a responsive android that can both do complex chores (including read to you), and also respond to touch (including telling you when it feels pain, and slapping you for touching its private parts.) Naturally, this bot is an ...