little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

Posts from September 2004

the beauty queen

(Note: I did a recent upgrade to MT 3.11 of Moveable Type, and comments for the main blog don’t work as of right now. Bear with me.) Update: Still some hiccups, but I’ll work on them later…
Every once in a while, one of the Yahoo! properties does an internal marketting campaign and [...]


dear san jose, i’m sorry you had to watch me sing and dance

So, here’s a tip for anyone waiting to see Prince perform live in concert - if you join his fan club, you get access to purchase his concert tickets a week before anyone else does and, more importantly, get those ticketmaster “convenience fees” waived. You also get to sit in the first 20 rows [...]


my ideal, completely appropriate, totally polically-correct asian pacific american toychest for the asian pacific american

(With apologies to the real deal. Take with a grain bucketfuls of salt, of course.)
LAUREN, THE ASIAN-PACIFIC-ISLANDER SPOKEN WORD POET DOLL: Lauren would come in a cardigan sweater and a pair of fabulous black, horn-rimmed glasses, where she would stand quietly. Stand quietly, of course, until you pull the string in the [...]