I'm switching to Tumblr, where I've had a new media blog that paralleled this Posterous. I used this for my pop culture and Asian posts. But I've finally decided to consolidate both microblogs on Tumblr, and created Gil Asakawa | Pop Stuff here:
http://gilasakawapop.tumblr.com/ 

 

From my Nikkei View blog: We caught a documentary on TV the other night, "I Am Bruce Lee," about the late great martial arts hero, and I was reminded that back in the day during my childhood (when I thought his Kato character on "The Green Hornet" was the coolest), there were few Asian faces in American pop culture. Even a decade ago, I wrote about and gave speeches about how Asians are invisible in mainstream pop culture. But just in the past several years, we've seemingly hit a tipping point and there are more Asian faces in movies and on TV shows ... and without Asian accents! Read more... 

Read about 'em on my Nikkei View blog:

From my Nikkei View blog:  In the midst of the media hullabaloo over ESPN’s “Chink in the armor” headline about Jeremy Lin, I had a conversation with a journalism professor at the University of Colorado, where I work as staff adviser to the CU Independent, the student-run news website for the Boulder campus. What the media need, we decided, is remedial lessons in racist imagery and epithets. 

From my Nikkei View blog: I’m about Lin-ed out — hopefully when the Knicks get back on the court after the All-Star break they’ll win some, they’ll lose some and Lin will settle into being a team leader without all the crazy hype swirling around him.

But one of the coolest side-effects of his sudden rise to fame — let’s call it the Jeremy Lin effect — has been a very public discussion of complex racial issues, the type of conversations in the media and in bars and livingrooms and offices and classrooms across the country that haven’t been uttered since… Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Only this time, there’s the added element of racial issues involving Asians and Asian Americans.

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Brilliant: Kevin Yee found time from the production of "Mary Poppins" on Broadway to write and produce this video.

From my Nikkei View blog: It's true -- ESPN last night posteda  game story about the Knicks' loss to the New Orleans Hornets that used the phrase "Chink in the armor" and referring to Lin. I cover the use of the word "chink" and how the Mile-Hi JACL board just had a discussion about the use of the word -- albeit correctly, without any racial intent -- in The Denver Post. Maybe it's time to stop using the word altogether. Read more...

From my Nikkei View blog: I've been adding tons of updates to my original Jeremy Lin post but decided today I needed to write a separate piece about Lin and race...  and I'll add more updates at the bottom.