You are currently browsing posts tagged with Geeks
BABEWATCH: Vote For Your Fave Semi-Clothed Shot of Olivia Munn
Our gift to you today? More gratuitous Olivia Munn coverage!
Olivia’s the editor of the next issue of MYMAG, a limited edition magazine that allows quote-unquote tastemakers to pull articles they like from different publications and put them together in one place. Like a blog, but on actual glossy paper that once grew on trees.
This MYMAG issue, HEY OLIVIA!, will also include Olivia’s first poster. You can vote for which semi-clothed shot of Olivia you’d like to see plastered on your bedroom walls to better complement your collection of furniture made out of beer cans until Sunday, by clicking here. It’s basically a tough decision between her perky boobs and her adorable heart-shaped ass, so GOOD LUCK.
Here’s video from the photo shoot, where she says funny shit like “Whenever I do photo shoots, they put so much fucking makeup on my face. It’s, like, they’re like, ‘Oh, you’re Asian, you’ve got this exotic thing, let’s put more shit on your face so you look more like a whore” that makes us love her more even while we hate her for looking so annoyingly perfect in her underwear:
[via OliviaMunn.com]
[MYMAG]
Filed under: Attack of the Show, G4, Geek Girls, Geeks, Olivia Munn, Olivia Munn MYMAG, Olivia Munn Naked, Olivia Munn Nude, Olivia Munn Poster
Olivia Munn and Comic-Con Go Together Like Ramma Lamma Lamma Ka Dinga Da Dinga Dong
Hey nerds. For those of you headed to Comic-Con this weekend (we’re still debating whether or not to go), check out Olivia Munn’s list of “14 Sexy Comic-Con Faves” over at Entertainment Weekly.
Along with the usual suspects, like Superman, Wonder Woman, and Slave Leia (which Olivia dressed up as a few Comic-Cons ago), there are some surprise picks from the Attack of the Show! host, like the Prince of Persia (i.e. the character that turned Jake Gyllenhaal into an oily muscle queen), Poison Ivy (“She was a bitch with serious issues. I admire that”), and…Kathy Bates in Misery???
Olivia writes:
“Okay, I know this is questionable. But, come on! This is a woman who saw an opportunity and didn’t let go. Okay, maybe that opportunity was to enslave her favorite writer and force him to write books. But she knew what she wanted and she wasn’t afraid to go after it. And isn’t that sexy?“
We seriously could not love this chick–Olivia, we mean, and not the sledgehammer-wielding Annie Wilkes–more.
Catch the Attack of the Show! crew on Friday at Comic-Con.
[EW: Olivia Munn: 14 Sexy Comic-Con Faves]
Filed under: 2009 Comic-Con, Annie Wilkes, Attack of the Show, By the Way Thanks for 8 Years of Misery, Geek Icons, Geeks, Mixed People, Nerds, Olivia Munn Playboy, Olivia Munn Slave Leia, Stephen King
BIRTHDAY CELEBRASIAN! Olivia Munn
Happy birthday to Olivia Munn, who turns 27 today!
.png)
Did we mention she’s Playboy’s cover girl this month? There are 14 pics of Olivia in her birthday suit (almost) that weren’t published in the magazine that you can see on Playboy’s website. Right now. For free.
So it’s kinda like her birthday and your birthday, too.
[Playboy.com: Olivia Munn, G4's sexy siren, is the new nerd crush!]
Filed under: 27 is a Shitty Age By Any Standard, Asian Babes, Attack of the Show, G4, Geeks, Mixed People, Nerds, Olivia Munn, Olivia Munn Playboy, Olivia Munn Playboy Cover
SELF-VLOGELLASIAN: Strung Out On Guitar Heroines
Just another day at the office: Jen, Diana, a cute dog, Xbox 360, scotch, Guitar Hero, an unlit cigarette, and lots of insightful conversasian.
Just can’t get enough? Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.
Filed under: Axl Rose, Confusing Conversasians, Geeks, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero III, Nerding Out, Rock Band, Rocking Out, Sex and The City, Slash, Star Power, Terry Bradshaw, VLOG, World Tour, Xbox Live
BABEWATCH: Kacey Wong
Name: Kacey Wong
Hails from: Hong Kong
Occupation: Visual Artist
Why He’s A Babe: Besides rocking cool-geek chic as naturally as black hair, Wong applies poetic impressions of Hong Kong to very quirky, easy-on-the-eyes “experiments.”
Recently, Wong created a wheeled homeless shelter–including a bed and a desk–that unfolds from the shape of a robot (see photo, above). He says: “My question is: what if the homeless shelter is beautiful, to the point where it becomes a public artwork on the street?”
A four-eyed do-gooder with great intentions and an even better aesthetic? If that ain’t hot, we don’t know what is.
Filed under: Artists, China, Four-Eyes, Geeks, Homeless Shelters, Hong Kong, Hot and Goofy, Innovation, Inspirasians, Kacey Wong, Robots, Spectacles
BABEWATCH: James Hong
Name: James Hong
Hails from: Danville, CA
Occupation: Hot or Not co-founder
Why He’s a Babe: It’s only fitting that the person who created Hot or Not, a photo-rating slash dating site–which reportedly sold for $20 million this year–should be considered hot. And Hong is, in that geeky sort of way. The thirtysomething Taiwanese-American has also earned the reputasian of being the funnest guy in Silicon Valley, at least he used to be anyway, until his doctor told him to chill, and we can’t think of anything doper than a party guy who has to be told by his doctor to slow down (we aspire to get there in the near future). On top of all this, Hong has a blog, where he writes about his nerd interests, like Facebook apps and iPhones and taking a spin on the Zero G plane, which simulates weightlessness in space. And a man after our own heart? That’s hot.
Filed under: Bloggers, Californiasians, Geeks, Hot or Not, HotOrNot.com, James Hong, Jim Young, Party People, Silicon Valley, Techies
Geeks v. Nerds
The Wired blog GeekDad posted the “10 Best Geek Characters in Mainstream Movies” today, and nary a one was Asian. I wish that had been an oversight, but, with the exception of Harold and Kumar, I can’t think of other great Asian geek-movie characters, which is weird, because, like, we own that shit. The Wired post also brings up the old hairsplitty topic of Geeks v. Nerds and goes a long way toward explaining why there aren’t Asian characters on this list–Asian outcasts and outsiders in movies tend to be nerds, not geeks. And if they’re not nerds or geeks, they’re villains, gangsters, or badasses.
Earlier this year, David Brooks wrote a Times op-ed piece about the evolution (and rise) of the geek in our culture, and he described the difference between a geek and a nerd this way:
Among adults, the words “geek” and “nerd” exchanged status positions. A nerd was still socially tainted, but geekdom acquired its own cool counterculture. A geek possessed a certain passion for specialized knowledge, but also a high degree of cultural awareness and poise that a nerd lacked.
A way to paraphrase what Brooks wrote? A GEEK GETS LAID. Most of the characters on Wired’s list–which includes Indiana Jones and John Cusack’s boombox-toting Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything–end up getting the girl (or boy, in one instance). Their geeky attributes simply add another top note to their existing man-musk. Geeks are really studs in sheep’s clothing. Nerds, meanwhile, are loser virgins with squeaky, pre-pubescent voices and undescended testicles. They often live with their mothers. They not only pick their noses but, one suspects, they also eat their boogers. And they do not know how to talk to their desired sex, much less how to save them from the evil clutches of Nazis, controlling fathers, or oppressive high school pecking-orders.
Often, talk of Asian-American “identity” conflates with the representations of us in pop culture. The Asian Nerd character is such a sore subject, in part because what we really want is to be geeks, on the big screen and in our little lives. And how do we do that? If we look at the few good Asian geek-characters out there, this is the takeaway: smoke a bowl. Don’t go to med school, but have the grades to get in. Believe in unicorns. And, of course, fuck. Fuck a lot.
Filed under: 10 Best Geek Characters in Mainstream Movies, Geeks, Geeks versus Nerds, Getting the Girl, Harold and Kumar, Nerds, Role Models, Testicles, Unicorns, Wired
I Went to Comic-Con and All I Got Was This Lousy L. Ron Hubbard Book
On Friday, I went to Comic-Con. I’ll tell you about it some day, after I get over my newly-acquired agoraphobia. Believe it or not, it was my third time. I went to my first Comic-Con ten years ago to hang out with my older brother, who was selling off some of his comics to pay for grad school. The most famous person in attendance then was Rob Zombie. Things have changed a lot since; it’s really corporate now and, in addition to nerds, there are Hollywood assholes and celebutards everywhere. Snooze.
The most interesting booth I came across at this year’s Comic-Con was the one selling reissues of L. Ron Hubbard’s fiction. Not just the science fiction he’s known for, but some pulp novels, too. The very nice lady with awful skin who sold me Spy Killer, a 1936 thriller about an American spy in Shanghai, informed me that “The Author” spent “quite a bit of time” in China and also spoke Chinese.
I honestly don’t know if she felt the need to tell me that because I am Chinese or because that gave L. Ron street cred or because she was, in some way, apologizing for the grotesque, chinky dude on the cover. They were also selling the book on tape and I had a listen; I can’t say for sure whether “The Author” spoke Chinese, but his Chinese characters sure do speak fluent…ching-chong.
Here are a few excerpts from Spy Killer:
Kurt went to the back of the room and found the round-faced, slit-eyed proprietor.
Lin Wang was small, hunched to one side, with a twisted back. He did not seem to have any neck muscles; his head sat rigidly upon his shoulders, pulled to one side. His face was deeply pocked, covered with yellowish scales which might come from some leprosy. Several great wrinkles lay like old scars against the cruel visage like ravines in a relief map. The wrinkles were filled with ancient poisonous dirt.
The garlic-reeking mouth of the Chinese was close to Kurt’s face.
And then my favorite line, which is almost a haiku:
He was too tall for a Japanese, he knew, but then some Japanese were tall.
Had me scratching my slit-eyed head for days.
Filed under: Comic-Con, Geeks, Haiku, Hostile Takeovers, L. Ron Hubbard, Nerds, Orientalism, Pulp Fiction, Science Fiction, Scientology, Slit-Eyed, Spy Killer
Paris Invasian
Paris Hilton announced on her MySpace blog today that she will be joining the geeks and weirdos at this week’s Comic-Con, to promote her new movie, Repo! The Genetic Opera.
Um, what’s up, va-Johnny come lately? Smarties, techies, geeks, and nerds are OUR territory, so bitch better be careful where she steps.
If Jen (who will be geeking it up in the Gaslamp, DISGRASIAN-style) catches so much as a glimpse of that smelly, fishy, stupid ho-bag, I guarantee that there’s going to be an ugly scene. A very ugly scene.
Filed under: Blegh, Comic-Con, Geeks, Inevitable Smack-Downs, Nerds, Paris Hilton Should Expire, Smarties, Techies, This is Not Okay, Ugly Chicks, Ugly Scenes, Wonk Eyes, You Stay Out of This
BIRTHDAY CELEBRASIAN!
Happy Birthday to G4 heroine Olivia Munn, who turned 26 this week! We think the event should be an honorary holiday for your legions of adoring followers–gamers, tech-geeks, and hipsters alike! And we would have sent an e-card to tell you so, but we’re sure your inbox is FULL.
Filed under: Beautiful Ladies, Birthdays, Freckles, G4, Gamers, Geeks, Olivia Munn
HONORASIAN: The RZA
Filed under: Buddhist Prayer Hands, Chess Champs, Chinese Clans, Geeks, Hillary Clinton, Kung Fu, RZA, Smoking Hotness, Wu-Tang Forever
Reasons why RZA should be an honorary member of the tribe:
BABEWATCH: Lisa Katayama
Name: Lisa Katayama
Hails from: San Francisco by way of Tokyo
Occupation: Writer and blogger
Why She’s a Babe: Because her blog Tokyo Mango rules, and she writes about Japan, geek culture, gadgets, and news of the weird with a wry but personal gaze. And she’s a woman after our own hardass hearts–her new book Urawaza, a resource of “Japanese tricks to turn your everyday life into science fiction,” promises most intriguingly to show its reader how to “Do Everything Better.” Plus, she’s a cute chick who comments on robots, WWII documentaries about Japan, and fetish cafes, and who doesn’t love that?
Check out Lisa’s book on Amazon.
Filed under: Asian Ladies Rock, Do Everything Better, Geeks, Japanese Gadgets, Lisa Katayama, Tokyo Mango, Writers
