Literary.NonFiction

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Sizing Him Up

“You have to take off your shirt.” She said.
“What?”
“Your shirt.  You have to take it off.”
He pulled his T-Shirt over his head and looked at his naked torso in the mirror.  The creases that had lined his stomach in college had melted together into a shapeless blob that made him wish he’d stuck to his [...]

Regino

I just finished working on a story for KQED about a local Filipino World War II veteran named Regino A. Nacua.
Regino A. Nacua is a Veterano, a Filipino national who fought on behalf of the United States against Japan in the pacific during World War Two.  The Filipino soldiers had expected to be [...]

Tall Enough

This past week was the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and among the shorts that played was a film by Barry Jenkins (director of Medicine for Melancholy ) called Tall Enough, commissioned by Bloomingdale’s.

and a bit of director’s commentary about the film:

Now there are two things about this film that I really [...]

Bro and I


Six Hours in Shanghai

The Taxi Pulled up in front of a dark building.
“Is this the hospital?”
“Looks like it”
Michael paid the driver and got out.
He was on the phone with our guide, Hui-Zhong, trying to find out
where my grandmother was.
“On the left? Fifth floor down the hall? OK.”
I was proud of him, surprised at how he’d stepped [...]

LEFT HANDED (TOBIRA NO MUKO)

I screened this film as part of the 2009 screening committee for the SF International Asian American Film Festival. It (and Etienne) were probably my favorites from that year. Anyway, I’ve been telling people about it for the past year but haven’t been able to find out anything else about the film [...]

Another Jesper Just Video on Youtube

see my previous post about him

Viral Liveaid

A friend recently sent me this video by cute Vimeo sensation Capucine

While videos of cute little girls being passed around the internet is not anything new, but I was impressed with her (or I guess her mother) turning her viral celebrity into publicity for a non-profit.
Actually, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen something like [...]

Frank Sbotka, Motorcycles and America’s Soul

 I recently started watching The Wire, and HBO show about the Baltimore city police department and one of my favorite characters from the show is Frank Sbotka, the head of the longshoreman’s union from season 2. There’s a quote from him that I really like; one episode. fed up with the labbyists he’s been [...]

Picturing the Future

I was recently sent this article comparing skylines of San Francisco in two of this summers science fiction blockbusters: Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation.

These two matte paintings pretty much sum up the perspectives these two franchises have on the the future of human race. In one world, the human race overcomes its petty differences [...]