Teal Deer Season (TL;DR)

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Self-Flattery
In Chinatown a while ago, while grocery shopping with my mom, a tall white dude kept glancing at me. My ego, ever the bullfrog, puffed up and croaked that someone was checking me out, while the rest of me was divided into Creepo Alert and Yes I am an Asian, may I help you?-Irritated.Just before the elevator arrived, he, ever the Caucasian, gestured to his neck and said, "Um, you have circles on your neck?"
Said circles:



Cool, innit? They are the side effects of acupressure and are the proof that something went wrong there. If the muscles are fine, it doesn't leave a bruise. I was afraid of fans of pseudo-vampires and those that rag on them to bother me about how to fake/faking a vamp bite. So anyway, I palm the bruises and explain, "oh, they're from acupressure."
White guy: "Acupressure?"
Me: "...Yeah"
We get in the elevator and he goes from being on my left to my right and deduces brilliantly, "They're on both sides."
Yessirree, they are indeed. I just smiled.
A few days back, my neck had felt like being Frankenstein's monster--you know, with the bolt going through the back--and no amount of self-massage had helped. However, I did feel a hard lump of muscle that reminds me of those two circles of meat on a chicken referred to as "oysters". Hrmmm....definitely not normal. So I reached for the accupressure kit and suctioned away. The relief was immediately palpable, although my neck still hurt, but instead of being a jolt of midget lightning, it was the stab of a cold fork muffled through cotton. And I had cool bruises for white people to eye.
Needless to say, my ego felt like a fool, and has been serving penance ever since.

Also: The acupressure kit I use, since Wiki says that acupressure is strictly massage (I googled 'haci acupressure')



Faaaaaaabulous
Pride Parade!
This year I was not awoken by the Umphf, Umphf blaring from the speakers on the floats, but from my mother for matters I do not remember anymore. I pulled back the glorious curtains, squinted extra-Asian against the noon sun, and delightedly went for the camera. Forty and Fabulous was this year's theme, and among the scantily-clad bodies, Hawaiian-dancing troupes, Cowboys (probably of the Brokeback Mountain kind) on real horses, and the ever-present Rocky Horror Picture Show float was two vehicles belonging to...Churches! It made me smile.

(Nekkid peepels, Hip swayin', and Church-pride! [click 'em to make bigger])

Mild Irritation at Hollywood and M. Night Shameonyouasian
So, The Last Airbender came out, after several wonderful-looking, albeit rather white, trailers. And it has been a flop, to my delight. Yes, I am very much mildly agitated over the casting of Caucasians in this movie. At first I was placated with "well, it's a fictional world, so white casting is acceptable" until I realized how much effort and research the original creators of Avatar (the one with yellow-skinned aliens, not the blue ones) went through to set this in a heavily East-Asian-and-Inuit type setting. Then there was no excuse, especially since Shayamalalalan shmooozed about how he really 'got into' the back story/world of Avatar. And casting white actors in the lead roles when he himself in an East Asian and knows very well how hard it is for us to break into the industry. And then he complains about all the hate mail and defends the movie for having the most diverse cast, lyke, evar!!!!!!!!
No, Shmalayasialan, I don't want diversity in this movie. I want an accurate representation of the world this is set in. Which means: screw diversity, more Asians plz. We're not criticizing you for racism because you favored whites in the lead, and yellow and olive-hued to make up the background; we're criticizing you because this movie is all about the yellow and and olives. There is no white. Would you cast Caucasian actors thrown in with some Indians and a token African-Chinese actor for good measure in a film about a rural, isolated farmtown in China? No--unless you're an avante-garde director who has tripped one too many times on acid--because it wouldn't make any sense since there is no diversity in the population of that rural Chinese town. Avatar is that rural Chinese town. And you are the frikken eclair (brown on the outside, white on the inside) that has tripped horribly and miscast it.
I understand you wanting to work with a certain actress, but you can put it off until a suitable film shows up (or cast her as Yue. She does have nice blue eyes, and being white wouldn't be much of an anomaly since she's kinda doesn't belong to the world anyway)
So I am very glad when the movie panned. Crash and burn, baby. I didn't keep up with the show when it started to devolve into fanservice, but I am still very loyal to it.
P.S. Your daughter would've made a pretty fetching Katara.

Older/Miscellaneous News that are still worthy of mentioning
-->Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series are SO GOOD, SO AWESOME, WHY IS IT A SERIAL?? I hate serials. But I love this. Augh.
-->I CAN HAS TABLET. FOR FREE. DANGNABBIT! :D
-->I've been off for summer vacation for about...two months already. Haha
-->Picked up knitting again. The first thing I ever started, I am going to finish this damn scarf if it means drowning in it.

Progression of my Batman Crush
I watched Batman: Under the Red Hood. Review to come.
Needless to say, my inner fangirl squealed very, very happily, despite it not really attaining 'fangirl worthy' status.