Instant Yang: April 2011

Saturday, April 30, 2011

It's ANGRY DAY. Show your love to Phil Yu and AngryAsianMan.com for 10 amazing years!

So today's the day Phil Yu is officially celebrating a full decade of writing AngryAsianMan.com, the blog that's become the hub of online Asian America. If like me, you depend on Phil and AAM for daily (or even hourly) updates on our community's constantly shifting landscape, show your love by changing your profile pic to the AAM@10 one illustrating this post — especially if, also like me, you can't make it to his party tonight! And if you want to read more about Phil, here's a revealing interview I was privileged to do with him for KOREAM Magazine (whose perpatetic and utterly awesome editrix, Kai Ma, has just shipped her last issue, as she makes her way out to Hong Kong...safe travels and good times, Kai!)

Links

Jeff Yang's "Asian Pop" Column @ SFGate.com

"Secret Identities" a crew of the web's most prolific asian pops join forces to create the ultimate daddyblogging machine...now with added INSTANT YANG!

"Rice Daddies" the Asian American Superhero Anthology, in progress!

BLOGROLL

FIRST READS (I check these daily. Sometimes obsessively)

angry asian man the one and only

zentronix jeff chang's blog...a cultural critic's cultural critic on music and politics and race and culture

joi ito reasoned rants and knife-sharp insights on society and technology, in japan and beyond

racialicious formerly mixed media watch, now dedicated to investigating the intersection of race and culture--from the keen creators of the podcast "addicted to race"

UNIQUE

eddy zheng a blog from behind bars. moving and painful

hanzi smatter hilarious look at the misuse of chinese (and other asian) characters in art, design, and most of all, on skin

MEDIA AND CULTURE

asian-nation professor c.n. le's invaluable online resource has a noteworthy blog,"behind the headlines"

hyphen blog the fab blog behind the fab asian american mag--get your daily dose of hyphen-y goodness here

eight diagrams thoughts on photography, technology, economy, and society, from an investment banker turned poet/author, who also happens to be my cousin

manja the indie guide to APA culture in the bay area

poplicks two great tastes that taste great together: cultural critics oliver wang and junichi semitsu joined forces to create this essential site on pop and politics

aanju blog asian american news served up hot

halvsie what's hapa-ning? find out here

daryl chin artist/critic daryl chin's musings are always thoughtful

metakorean korean american groupblog; interesting, but not as frequently updated as one might like

margin.notes winnie shiraishi's nicely written and extremely informative site on japanese books in translation--literature and pop get equal and evenhanded treatment here

mixed media watch blogging mixed-race representation in hollywood and on madison ave., from the keen creators of the podcast addicted to race

INDIE COMICS CREATORS

jerry ma/epic proportions