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Total Kong-quest
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that most people who saw Seth Gordon’s fantastic 2007 documentary, King of Kong (a film about two middle-aged men–a middle school teacher and a condiment magnate–duking it out for the Guinness World Record on Donkey Kong), were not quickly inspired to follow in the principal characters’ footsteps. Though respectfully portrayed, most of the people featured in the film are lovable losers, aging dorks, gamer geeks–and the addiction itself so all-consuming that it alienates even our hero from family, home and daily life.
But of course, someone did. Hank Chien, a 35-year-old plastic surgeon from New York, started playing the game after seeing the film. He recently broke the standing record, held by longtime recordholder Billy Mitchell, with 1,061,700 points in two and a half hours. The score was 10,000 higher than Mitchell’s.
The Kong-querer
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Filed under: Addiction, Arcade Games, Asians Love Winning Anything, Awesome Documentaries, Billy Mitchell, Breaking Records, Documentaries, Donkey Kong, Excellence, Excelling As A Pastime, Gamers, Guinness Book of World Records, Hank Chien, Harvard, King of Kong, Losers, NYC Plastic Surgeon Breaks Donkey Kong World Record, Plastic Surgeons, Queens, Records, The 80's, Twin Galaxies, Weird American Behavior, Winners, Winning, World Records
Pretty Girrrls Make Boxes
During last night’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Ru announced one of my favorite challenges evvvaaarrr: each queen making their box pretty!
Nobody likes a boring box!
It was a PRETTY BOX exxxtravaganza, where Ru kept asking about the BOXES and cooing over the BOXES and delighting over scented BOXES and talking about how important a queen’s BOX is! After all, what’s more important than a drag queen’s box, you tell me? Nothin’!
GENIUS.
During the challenge, I was not surprised to see “Tyra” gettin’ bitchy with all of the other ladies, and complaining that everyone was copying her (she does so every time).
See the quickfire challenge at 3:45 of the video below:
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Filed under: Awesome, Bitch Fights, Boxes, Brilliant Reality Show Challenges, Copycats, Dirty Minds Think Alike, Drag Queens, Golden Box, Innuendo, Jujubee, Logo, Making Your Box Nice, Pretty Boxes, Queens, Reality TV, RuPaul, RuPaul's Drag Race, RuPaul's Drag Race Season 2, Scented Boxes, Tyra
Mr. Prom Queen
In a week when we felt ashamed to be Californian because of our Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage, there was one grace note: Fairfax High School, which is right down the street from where I live, elected its first openly gay male Prom Queen. His name is Sergio Garcia, he has meticulously-tweezed brows, and he knows how to work his skinny jeans.
Fairfax HS Prom Queen Sergio GarciaAlthough his running for Queen began as a stunt, Sergio soon realized that it was the title that really suited him. In a speech he made to the senior class before the prom, he said, “I will be wearing a suit, but don’t be fooled, deep down inside, I am a queen!” Senior class president Vanessa Lo told the LA Times that many students, herself included, were won over by that speech when they realized Sergio wasn’t just doing this for attention.
“It just goes to show how open-minded our class is,” Lo said.
Indeed. Now keep those minds open, kids, and don’t forget to use the power of your vote again in 2010, when the fate of many many more queens will be up to you.
[LA Times: Fairfax High's prom queen is a guy]
Filed under: Equal Marriage Rights, Fairfax High School, Gay Male Prom Queen, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage Fight 2010, Gay Teens, Prop 8, Queens, Sergio Garcia, The Importance of Voting, Young Voters
BIRTHDAY CELEBRASIAN!
This week, we celebrate the 39th birthday of Julie Chen, aka the reigning Queen Missus of the CBS empire. We envy her shiny-and-full-of-body coif and pretty eyes (we bet she’s got a sweet-bangin’ GPS system in her car, or some other cool gadget like that, too).
May she continue to look this lovely and ageless until robotic eternity! Her very existence makes us want to turn 39, too, like NOW.
Filed under: Anti-Agin' Asian, Big Brother, CBS, Great Chompers, Julie Chen, Les Moonves, Queens, Robots
All Hail Queen Raquela
Check out the trailer for The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela, a “docudrama” that screened at SXSW and follows the life of Filipina transsexual prostitute and dreamer, Raquela Rios:
The movie is directed by Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur, who says the fact-to-fiction ratio in Queen Raquela is 50/50. No news yet on a U.S. release date.
Click here for the official movie site.
Filed under: Docudramas, Filipino/a, Iceland, Ladyboys, Olaf de Fleur, Pinaysian Persuasian, Queens, Raquela Rios, Trannies
Me & Jonny Woo–Twinkies!
Drag Queen Du Jour Jonny Woo and I have so much in common.
1) We’re Asian.
2) We adore Paris Is Burning.
3) From time to time, we like to wear our 9th grade History Fair trophies on our heads.
Filed under: Ball Culture, Jonny Woo, Paris Is Burning, Queens, Trophies, Twinkies
Disgrasian Idol
The WRONG ASIAN got voted off last night on American Idol. It should have been Sanjaya, and not A.J., to say b-bye.
He may be a dwarf, but that Filipino queen A.J. Tabaldo can sing. Maybe it was his song choice, “Feeling Good,” a Nina Simone number that took out Leslie “the Lez” Hunt, too (and thank Jesus…Girlfriend can’t scat her way out of gopher hole). Maybe America really can’t tell us all apart, and thought they were voting for one Asian when they were really voting for another.
Any way you look at it, Sanjaya Malakar stays another week. Indian-Donnie Osmond can’t sing, purriod. Don’t get me started on the outfit. It looked like a holdover from some lame pimps ‘n’ hos costume party that I boycotted circa 1999. The ponytail was greazy, too. And the dude’s got to stop smiling so much. At best, he looks medicated. At worst, he’s starting to resemble a brown, life-sized Chucky Doll.
Alas, I’m going to miss that Filipino sprite. Keep dancing with those fists, little man.
Filed under: American Idol, Mistasian Identity, Queens
