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Show Your Love For Taiwan

May 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the 2nd week of May is Taiwanese American Heritage Week! Celebrate by showing your love for Taiwan with this “I Love Taiwan” t-shirt by Hepnova Multimedia. Proceeds from t-shirt sales help support our music endeavors and let us bring more fabulous and free music to you.

Tags: Culture · Democracy · Fashion · Fun · HEPNOVA · Taiwan

On settling

April 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Check out my recent online conversation with Sophia of 52 Faces about “settling” and commitment in relationships. In Sophia’s original post, “Confessions of a Settler,” she talks about her own personal journey towards commitment and comments on Lori Gottlieb’s controversial Atlantic piece on “Settling for Mr. Good Enough.” I pose the question as to [...]

Tags: Blog · Blogroll · Culture · Personal

Boycotting the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

The following letter ended up in my inbox today from Huang Jinming of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party of China. Their website is under construction and there wasn’t much I could find out about them online. However, their letter lays out some principled, well-reasoned arguments, so I thought it [...]

Tags: Activism · Campaign · China · Culture · Democracy · Human Rights · Links · News · Taiwan · Tibet

Cake City Shirts

March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Show and prove your pride as an international citizen of Cake City. Thousands of people worldwide are casting off the chains of slackness and earning currency every day. Cake City isn’t just the new name for a certain metro area — it’s a state of mind, global village of the highly motivated.
Order your very [...]

Tags: Arizona · Art · Culture · DIY · Democracy · Design · Fashion · Fun · HEPNOVA · Internet · Links · Marketing · News

Another only in Japan story…

October 23rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

Another “only in Japan” and “oh, the Japanese are so quirky” story. Actually, I’m not all that surprised. When I was living there, I saw some TV variety show introduce a line of children’s clothing made out of knife stabbing resistant fabrics. This was a few weeks after a horrific school killing when an elementary [...]

Tags: Culture · Fashion · Fun · Japan · Japanese · Links · New York · News · Photography · Pictures