Huy X. Le
A New Superhero is Born
On Thanksgiving, while I was busy basting the Tofurky, horrible delinquents broke into my car. Obviously there was nothing left to take, since they had stolen everything in the previous eight break-ins throughout these...
How To Shove An Old Lady
Every year, around this time, we give thanks for the things that we often take for granted. Things like family and friendship and commu — OMG, a 16-gig flash drive for $4.99! Where was...
Lessons From My New Friend, the Mushroom Lady
Dear everyone, every year around this time, the leaves are so brilliant and colorful, as if Mother Nature ate a giant bowl of Southwest-style salsa and threw up on our city. (Sometimes, the poetry...
Dino Rossi and Patty Murray, stop ruining my commercial breaks!
Every day I come home exhausted after a grueling three or four hours of work, and there is one thing I look forward to. Flo, the Progressive Insurance commercial lady. She’s hilarious. “Unicorn and...
Dino Rossi and Patty Murray, stop ruining my commercial breaks!
Every day I come home exhausted after a grueling three or four hours of work, and there is one thing I look forward to. Flo, the Progressive Insurance commercial lady. She’s hilarious. “Unicorn and...
Vietnamese movies: Art or Torture?
Golden House Bakery was a defacto community center where there was a unique intergenerational space for members of the Khmer community to engage
Vietnamese movies: Art or Torture?
Dear readers (both of you),
Today I am taking my new wife to see “De Mai Tinh,” a Vietnamese romantic comedy that just came out this month. Vietnamese movies for me are like arm-wrestling a...
Is the Definition of Sophistication Obsolete?
Victoria Chang’s latest book of poems “Barbie Chang” is a collection of tightly knit verse deeply influenced, in sometimes subtle ways, by the idea of circles. The most obvious occurrence appears right in the beginning as “beautiful thin mothers at school / form” what is referred to as “the Circle” throughout the book. The mothers maintain a somewhat two-dimensional quality but offer readers a spatial and social understanding of the world the narrator navigates; one is either in or out
Is the Definition of Sophistication Obsolete?
Recently the wife took me to a ballet performance, where I promptly fell asleep. It was some sort of story about a doll that came to life and fell in love with a guy....
Change, do we really need it?
A guide to the films showing at the 2018 Seattle Asian American Film Festival, February 22-25
