Daewon The Skate God Turns 50

 

New moves up above.

Damn. Happy 50th.

Alex Wagner's Show Is Gone on MSNBC, And Katie Phang's Is Too. In The Same Cut As Joy Reid. MSNBC Can *$&@(@(##!@%!

I've posted in the past on MSNBC where somedays they've talked the good talk, but when you looked at the primetime, and the faces they were promoting, it just didn't pass muster. 

And now--in one sweeping cut--they just knocked off THREE Women of Color including Alex Wagner, who I knew there had to be something up and I wondered if she'd be coming back, Katie Phang, who I was loving so much and LOVED seeing this awesome Asian American Woman on TV, and Joy Reid--one of the most distinct voices and best voices on MSNBC.

For all their talk about what they stand for--MSNBC, while they are replacing Joy Reid's show with 3 anchors of color, it's still suspect--because they're still dropping TWO ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN.

At the same time, it sounds like no one was given any real information on their shows being cancelled beforehand (although I wonder if Wagner had some inkling)--and that makes a difference. If you worked at a company for X number of years doing great things--don't you think you should at least be given some respect in the send off vs "Here's a box for your stuff" and getting it via an email from x of x of x (and not I don't know the actual pieces of that, but we can guess because it's already been stated it was A SURPRISE). 

Checking out different numbers across the board it sounds like everyone was not doing great from a numbers standpoint, but that it was getting better, so while mostly--all things were equal--they still decided to go with Whiteness.

These Two Articles By/About Asian Americans Made Me Cry Furiously

NPR host Adrian Ma remembers his girlfriend who died in D.C. plane crash

In the wee hours of the morning on January 30, after an American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and crashed into the Potomac River, NPR's Adrian Ma sent an email to some of the leaders at NPR. Its subject line read:

"I knew someone on AA5342."

That someone was Adrian's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins. She was coming back from Wichita, Kan., where she was visiting a family member who had just had surgery. There were no survivors. Adrian offered to speak to NPR, about that night and about his late girlfriend.

Read it in full at NPR: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g-s1-49853/dc-plane-crash-american-airlines

Tiger mom and her cub contemplate cancer

Tiger Cub

One Friday night, after a long school week, you and Dad took my little sister and me out for dinner. I was confused because you rarely took us out to eat, yet this was your second time in recent memory. During the first dinner just a couple of weeks ago, you shared you were leaving your job after 4 years. This dinner I was understandably wary. What else could there be? You’d already dropped one bombshell. 

We went to a restaurant Danielle had discovered with her friends. While I was regretting my menu choice and contemplating stealing some of Danielle’s food, you shared the news that you had breast cancer. You quickly assured us not to worry, explaining it was highly treatable and that you would undergo surgery and radiation therapy. 

Read it in full at AsAmNews: https://asamnews.com/2025/02/18/tiger-mom-and-her-cub-contemplate-cancer/

SUBMIT TO PAAFF 2025

From the PAAF website:

"The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival focuses on film and other media by, for, and/or about the Asian & Pacific Islander* diaspora community.

PAAFF accepts films and other media that have at least one person of Asian & Pacific Islander descent in a key creative role (director, DP, producer, writer, actor, etc…) and/or are about the Asian & Pacific Islander experience both in the United States and internationally. PAAFF has historically featured works with themes involving, but NOT limited to, Asian and Pacific Islander cultures, histories, and experiences.

Asian & Pacific Islander includes, but is not necessarily limited to, people from and descended from areas now known as Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Yemen; and the indigenous peoples of Oceania and the Pacific Islands.

PAAFF requires all films in its program to include closed captions.

PAAFF does not and will not accept films which have received funding from the State of Israel or financial institutions incorporated therein.

PAAFF does not and will not accept films for which human labor has been supplanted with generative AI."

Get it here: https://paaff.org/submit/