toastykitten

This item on Boing Boing is freaking me out because I just got my own line on Sprint. Arrgh. Are there any cell phone/internet carriers that I can sign up for at a reasonable rate who are not stupid and won't give away my information to the NSA?

One of the things that annoyed me about the Superman was that the depiction of the media was so inconsistent. It really bugged me that instead of emailing her story to her boss, Lois printed out the report. (And it was double-spaced! Like a college paper!) It's like they couldn't decide whether it was 1956 or 2006.

While flipping channels one evening, I came across this oddity of a Disney TV movie called Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, featuring Asian American actress Brenda Song who is Thai and Hmong. (You thought Arabs were nonexistent in the media? Most people don't even know who the Hmong are.) As soon as the dialogue between the two parents came up ("I want us to be a Chinese-American family") I had to change the channel. But goddamnit, I got sucked back into the show - Song actually reminds me of one of my friends. When I flipped the channel back, the white girls were astonished at the Asian guy's makeover (Shin Koyamada, playing her cousin) and starting to drool over him. And then we cut to the Homecoming Warrior practicing her kung fu with some teachers at her school who seem to have been hypnotized into martial arts robots.

Actually, the fight scenes were decent, mostly because it looked like Song knew what she was doing. According to the IMDB profile, she's a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I wonder how much Disney pays. If only they hired better writers...