Chinese delivery guy

When did UPS man start delivering morals with your packages?
In the national imaginary, the UPS man exists as equal parts sex symbol and Santa Claus.  In the 1990s, I read a feature in either People magazine or Newsweek about the lives of UPS workers, which the writer focused on how well-received they are by stay-at-home [...]

Playing Together

I learn a lot from the world of sports.  I learned today that assuming all white people are Klu Klux Klan members is inexcusable, but thinking all black people are ‘hood is socially acceptable.
Bruce Pearl, coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers, is getting some heavy criticism for an off-the-cuff remark he made at a [...]

The Epicureal Politics of Regional Identity, or otherwise known as the great deep-dish pizza debate: Zachary’s Pizza versus “Original” Chicago-style from Chicago

Zachary’s pizza, before our appetites got to it
Heijin and Dean (some of you may know them by Daron, De’Sha, or some other great nick name) were in town for some business and pleasure (pleasniss?) and Bean and I got a chance to catch up with them and a couple other mutual friends at Zachary’s Pizza.   [...]

Chicken Beef

(Giant chickens: China’s strategic plan to ending their dependency on U.S. chickens?)
Just when we thought professional basketball was about to bring world peace, chicken feet may be the instigator for a pending World War III.
Okay, I’m being facetious.  But it is a little funny to see these weekly headlines about the U.S.-China relations that tenuously [...]

Protest and Punishment

As we’ve all witnessed to in the last few days and weeks, the culture of collective punishing of black protest in the public sphere has become the norm in the United States.
By protest, I don’t mean what we’ve come to know in the national historical imagination of the civil rights movements and people marching through [...]

At least F*** one….

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Rep yo burger

There is a new dj battle/competition on the scene and it looks like it might become bigger than the DMC World Championships.  Introducing McDonald’s new “FLAVOR BATTLE” dj competition.
As of September 7th, McDonald’s has launched it’s national competition, where 3 “national” djs — each repping a McDonald’s hamburger — will battle it out ONLINE with [...]

Common Cents

“It (sport) gives them a chance to meet to talk to you and gives you an opportunity to meet and talk to them then it will play a role. As long as we are talking and meeting each other only good things can happen.”  – Wes Unsled, NBA Hall of Famer.
Xie Yuan, an official with [...]

The neutral zone of Jamba Juice

Oakland is smaller than I thought it was.  On a few occasions, I’ve either run into former co-workers and/or acquaintances.  More often than not, these people I run into are people I haven’t talked to in at least 5-6 years.  Each exchange usually follows the same script of asking 1) what they’re up to and [...]

Sick day

No, my labor day weekend hasn’t started early. 
Being sick when it’s about 90 degrees outside sucks.  I’ve been sick 4 summers in a row now and I thought I had escaped it given how it’s practically fall now.  But no, on the last day of August, I got the aches — body and head — [...]