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Michael Steele Gets Served

Every time I think I’ m going to get sick of Colbert (like when he said he was going to run for president) he always wins me back.

A Rocky Requiem

I didn’t think i’d get so emotional in reading about a paper’s obituary.   The Rocky Mountain News published its last edition today.   I guess the end of a paper is not only the absence of news and information that help to hold the society together, to hold the society accountable or even entertained, but it’s the end of a ritual that was taken for granted for so long.

I’m not sure how the journalism industry is going to look like even 5 years from now.  I’ll be graduating with a journalism master’s this year in probably the worst economy since the Great Depression and the worst state of the newspaper industry.  Although the medium might change to the internet or mobile phones, good reporting is still needed.  I always felt the more competition in the marketplace of opinions and viewpoints, the better. I’m sure politicians and public officials will miss being badgered by reporters; they are the only ones who pay any attention to them anyway.

I’m definitely stressed out and worried if I’ll have a job by the time I graduate. I’m finding it hard to even have the time to apply for a job with all the school work I have on my plate.  The irony is of course, I’m spending all this time preparing for an industry that is dying reinventing itself.

(online, at a different paper.)

Hi

I DONT HAVE TIME TO UPDATE THIS BLOG.

Just my facebook =)

New

I’m excited to have finally switched servers from webhost4life to bluehost.

Bluehost is a lot faster,  has customer service by phone and has one free domain name registration.

I have yet to tinker around in it but can’t wait. I will probably get rid of this WP theme just so I could learn how to customize everything on wmy own.

Honestly…

The passengers on the US Airways plane that landed in the Hudson should be grateful THAT THEY ARE ALIVE and not asking for more than $5000. It sucks to lose your clothes, your laptops, your documents and your cute little shoes, but in the long run they’re not important and asking for more money is what’s causing airlines to run red.

How does more money ever restore nerves and compensate for emotional distress?! Should the airlines be sued every time there’s inclement weather or migratory birds?!

Press Cred

Went to the Capitol today to get my press credentials.  It was nice to take a tour of the senate buildings and ride the little underground trains that connect them. I also watched Kaufman being sworn into the Senate and saw Biden and Cheney for the first time.  In a way, I wish I was in the D.C. bureau instead of the online bureau which is located on the UMD’s campus but hopefully I’ll be making most of my time in College Park….
For inauguration, I have to spend most of the morning at The Washington Post’s bureau in Arlington. My only consolation is that I won’t be cold.

Resolutions

Patience

Punctuality

Discipline

Say What?

I had no idea what Obama just said. He talks more like a professor than a president still. His ideas and thoughts are sometimes so lofty that I get lost. Either he is verbose or I’m just tired now and losing my attention span.

He has such a calm nature but tonight he seems so overwhelmed or overburdened with emotion; it’s such a contrast to the mood of a jubilant, screaming crowd.  Perhaps it’s the loss of his grandmother just two days ago.  Or that his mother or his father are not here to witness this moment either.

It must feel overwhelming to be in Chicago this night when he had given so much of himself as a community organizer back in the 80s when it seemed like his work was so futile.

It wasn’t an easy decision to vote for Obama; I have my fears and concerns about him.  He is not a perfect man by any means and I personally felt when he first announced he was going to run that he had time and could run later.  But considering all the candidates and all the pros and cons which I won’t go into here, I felt he was the best candidate to be president.

Politics is always going to be a sensitive issue, even within my own family and friends but I am hopeful that Obama will help reverse America’s downward spiral, if it’s not too late already.

McCain’s Campaign a Hoax

I don’t think it’s just Ashley Todd who’s the hoax in this election. Todd claimed she was mugged, beaten and mutilated for being a McCain supporter and blamed it on some 6′4″ black man. For some reason, I’m finding a parallel here to McCain’s campaign, esp. as we’re coming closer to Election Day. The attacks are becoming more unfounded and just plain stupid and insulting.
I still find McCain’s veep pick is esp. insulting. She has been the most costly blunder to the campaign, esp. with that $160,000 wardrobe budget. Some hockey mom. I’m aghast she wants America to know how her family is scrimping by while her 7 year old totes around a LV bag. Whether it’s hers or her mom’s is beside the point. I’m angry that she’s trying to portray herself as regular Jane with this egregious allowance for clothes and makeup. get real.

What White People Like

I think I was in Korea when this website took off because I only discovered it today in the form of a book that I happened to see at the Barnes & Noble in Georgetown today.
It’s pretty hilarious and self-deprecating look at what white people like and the often-stupid and hypocritical reasons for it. (The author Christian Lander, who is white, said self-deprecating humor is what white people like #103)
Of course it is funny because I find most of it true and have experienced it at one point in my life. Let’s take what white people like #11: Asian girls.

I think most Asian girls must have experienced being a victim of yellow fever. I tried to have an intelligent discussion about the phenomena of Asian fetish with a couple of white male co-workers at a Christmas party once which ended with one of them caressing my face and saying, “Maybe it’s the skin?”

Lander does state as fact, that “Asian women well into their thirties or forties retain teen or college-girl looks without the help of Botox, yoga, or a trendy diet.” I must say I do look younger than I am and still get carded often.
But in my opinion, it is as much as a social commentary on class and culture and not just on race.  I do have white friends who are obsessed with The Wire, Oscar Parties, 80s night, yoga, Apple products, Whole Foods and diversity, (for the food.) I, too, love The Colbert Report, NPR, The NY Times, and bakeries, books, grammar, bottled water, coffee, and girls with bangs (which i was denied 3x by a cutter last week because he said it wouldn’t look good on me….he was Asian.)
It’s called living in liberal, mass-consumer societies on the west or east coasts of the U.S.