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I have a weakness for celebrity gossip, especially when it pertains to Asian people, so the whole Jenny Shimizu dishes about her relationship with Angelina Jolie is fascinating to me. Shimizu is a total trip; some interesting things she says includes "I've never kissed anyone with a bigger mouth than Angelina. It's like two waterbeds" and "Her and I have a relationship just like I have with my friends or my mother but it doesn't necessarily mean were having sex." Uh huh. In one of the articles it mentions that she hasn't spoken to Jolie in years, but in another she mentions that Jolie still booty-calls her to "fulfill her sexual needs."

Then I discovered that GiantRobot once interviewed her. GiantRobot gives the best interviews ever. In this interview, she talks about pooping in Madonna's bathroom, listening to Shaq poop and rap at the same time, and getting robbed by someone and her mother. It's only a partial interview, so if you want to read the rest, you're going to have to buy a back issue.

I'm sort of torn about seeing Memoirs of a Geisha. On the one hand, I haven't read the book yet, and I like to read the books before I see the movie adaptations, and on the other hand, I love Michelle Yeoh. Oh, and the stupid controversy over the casting. Even friggin Wikipedia wastes three paragraphs on it. Sometimes I wish there was a way for both the Chinese and the Japanese to grow the fuck up about these things, but I don't see it happening in my lifetime, unless they actually deal with the war honestly. (And no, I do not mean all Chinese and Japanese are like that. And I heard Memoirs is kind of a Westernized fantasy of what geishas are about, so that's more of the reason why I'm hesitant. But I can't judge until I actually read the book.)

At least they didn't cast Lucy Liu. :P

When I read somewhere that Bill Murray didn't like Lucy Liu and said she had no comic timing, I laughed. He's right. She doesn't.

Michelle Yeoh - I wish she would change her English name to the Cantonese pinyin - which would be "Yang" or "Young", because "Yeoh" sounds like "Yow!" or a cat screaming. I love her in everything she does, and also partly because she is crazy enough to do her own stunts even though she has no official training in martial arts. Oh, and her English is excellent, which gives her way more leeway in crossing over to America than for Jet Li or Jackie Chan.

Zhang Ziyi - When she first came out, I didn't think much of her. I thought she was kind of plain, and I was like, Zhang Yimou dumped Gong Li for her? But I think her willingness to do anything is probably why she's so good.

Did you know that Justin Lo is doing Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift? BLT alumni Jason Tobin and Sung Kang are going to be in it. Hey, Lil Bow Wow is, too. Dude, is he old enough to drive?

GLEE, I tell you. I made it as far as today without buying a magazine, but then I saw Jane. Because thoughts of Claudine Ko and the whole American Apparel brouhaha was bouncing around in my head, I picked it up. Did you know it's only $1.99 now? (And what's up with the trend of magazines publishing only 10 issues a year?) I saw that one of the cover headlines, in tiny print at the bottom, was "Dov Charney wants to prove he's not a perv" or something like that and totally had to pick it up.

I was going to find a link for the original American Apparel article, but Jane's site doesn't run without Flash. Flash doesn't like my computer. So bleh. Man, I haven't even read the original article.

This follow-up article has Charney all scared and shit, because he's been slapped with a few sexual harassment suits. He describes himself self-defensively as a "sensitive soul" - which, just made me laugh out loud. Sure, as a sensitive soul myself, I love it when people I barely know jack off in front of me just to show they like me. It's a great introduction, don't you think?

Oy, more later, when I don't have a major headache.

1. The new Giant Robot is awesome. I love that I can read every issue cover to cover and not be bored, even the punk rock reviews of stuff I don't listen to. I've tried, but I am just not into punk.
2. Hitachi unveils humanoid robot. Oh my god, they look straight out of a Star Wars movie.
3. CMU Robot finds life "all by itself". That robot looks hella ghetto, though - like someone cobbled it out of spare parts in their basement or something.
4. Underwater robot launched from Bermuda to cross Gulf Stream.
5. High school kids beat out MIT in robot competition. Awesome: "The four teenagers who built it are all undocumented Mexican immigrants who came to this country through tunnels or hidden in the backseats of cars. They live in sheds and rooms without electricity. But over three days last summer, these kids from the desert proved they are among the smartest young underwater engineers in the country."
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"Excuse me, madam," he began. He wasn't used to approaching women, let alone well-dressed white women. He saw apprehension flash across her face. Maybe she thought he was trying to sell magazines or candy bars, but he steeled himself. He explained that he was building a robot for an underwater contest, and it was leaking. He wanted to soak up the water with tampons but didn't know which ones to buy. "Could you help me buy the most best tampons?"
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When Luis lowered Stinky into the water for their run, Lorenzo prayed to the Virgin Mary. He prayed that the tampons would work but then wondered if the Virgin got her period and whether it was appropriate for him to be praying to her about tampons. He tried to think of a different saint to pray to but couldn't come up with an appropriate one.
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Lorenzo threw his arms into the air, looked at Ledge, and silently mouthed the word "Hooters."
Scholarship fund for the undocumented kids.
6. I didn't read this, except the "nanotech swarms" bit. That sounds really cool, or like the next Terminator movie.
7. Robots ready to rumble.
8. Fembots
9. A robot tests the crumbliness of cookies.