“There’s such a lack of seeing Asian American role models in American media, especially like Bruce Lee—an action hero and an icon, really. So I remember feeling, “He’s ours.” There was this special attachment to Bruce Lee and to the idea of being a kung fu fighter, and…that felt like our own thing.”
That’s not true. But Older Brother did disappear/go all the way to law school to avoid an interview with Chotiner.
The March reading schedule: 3.2 Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu | 3.9 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom | 3.16 Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maid Woolf | TMNT: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 1 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird | MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker
March comes in like a book podcast
Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 08 - Welcome to the BSC, Abby! (The Baby-Sitters Club #90)
“Maybe that’s why I wrote the book. I wanted to see if I could make myself flinch. Or see if I could slap myself silly.”
"People feel that there’s a lot of stuff to be done first [before comedy]. You have to rehumanize yourself, would be the right thing to say. You’ve got to assert your intellectual equality...That’s what people feel like you have to do. I think you can do all that and be funny at the same time."
Thanks for spending all those hours with us!
Our deepest condolences on today’s loss to Canadian Olympic hockey player Shane Hollander
Screenshot of a photo of a handpainted sign, showing a cheerful blue fish and the text “tuna melt: great sandwich.” Superimposed on the photo is the text: “Lies.” The photo is posted from Rachel Reid’s instagram.
This from Rachel Reid over the weekend cracked me up.
Hot sandwich, hot take!
"I’ve had an itch for years to do something solarpunk, and Monk & Robot is me scratching it. I can’t say that there was one big “aha” moment with this one. It’s this jumbled mix of things I like (monks and robots, for a start) and little ideas that have been bugging me for a while."
*Three* Lives? In this economy?
"Those who are creating the modern composition authentically are naturally only of importance when they are dead because by that time the modern composition having become past is classified and the description of it is classical." - Gertrude Stein, Composition as Explanation
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Andrew: Watch Akira in dub or sub?
Us from the trenches: Well, actually, the debate is between the Streamline dub or the original Pioneer dub.
Tokyo Drifters Ep 0 - Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo
An introduction to our next longread project is on the main feed! To hear this show-within-a-show as it drops, head to patreon.com/overduepod for more!
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We read these so you don't have it, but if you must: archive.org/details/elso...
''There's nothing these book children do that a child couldn't remember having done themselves,'' Miss Sharp once told an interviewer. ''They made the books part of themselves. We made reading easy for them and encouraged them to read more.'' - From Zerna Sharp's 1981 obituary
His exploits *are* glorious!
Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 07 - Jessi's Secret Language (The Baby-sitters Club #16)
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"I was tired of ancient Greek characters sounding as if they’ve stepped out of a Merchant Ivory production...The Greek world wasn’t a monoculture: you’ve got different dialects, different classes, immigration, a massive slave trade. The language was a way to try to capture some of that difference."
(this thought brought to you by a B&N display in the western suburbs of Phila, but also by the good guys at @overduepod.bsky.social and their dedication to lifting up works newly in the public domain)
