Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jun 23, 2011, 12:29 pm
To the 73 people still subscribing to this site via Google Reader, won't you please consider subscribing to http://www.sylvie-kim.com/rss instead? Much appreciated, sk
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jun 7, 2011, 3:30 pm
I've seceded to the Cool Kids Side over at Tumblr. Thanks for reading my posts during my years of (embarrassing) development as a writer. If you find it in your hearts to redirect your Google Reader and other feeds to the new site, I'd appreciate it greatly. New URL: http://sylvie-kim.com/rss
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - May 31, 2011, 8:12 pm
In the process of making a new site and looking/acting like a grown up writer. Will update all 12 of you with a new URL shortly.
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jan 18, 2011, 3:45 pm
It's really not a shock that there are virtually few easily identifiable or self-identified Asian or Asian Americans during film/television award season which roughly begins in August with the Emmys and extends into February with the Oscars. Sprinkled in there you have the Screen Actors' Guild Award...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jan 13, 2011, 5:28 pm
Let me begin by saying I hate the phrase "Me love you long time." I cringe when Full Metal Jacket is on, I shudder when a certain 2 Live Crew song is playing, and I start seething when any racist, misogynistic ass clown decides to utter it aloud. I hate its ideological threads to the "Asian woman as...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jan 11, 2011, 2:31 pm
Well, I couldn't be the only Asian not to respond to this article, could I? I don't want to simply reiterate what others have already said so eloquently (please do check out a few choice links below), so I'll try to take a different angle on the matter and be as diplomatic as possible while introduc...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jan 10, 2011, 2:57 pm
Hello? Let me start off with an analogy, shall we? If blogging were like a high school reunion, upon my return all you writers and readers would say "Wow...she really let herself go." I'm not sure if that necessarily made metaphorical sense, but bear with me. I'm supposed to have the first draft of ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Oct 20, 2010, 12:14 am
Oh hey. Remember me? No? Ah, just as well. Had to post today because of the incredibly love/hate kind of weekend I just had. I had a Five Guys burger for the first time which loved my grease-lovin' palate but hated my body's last wavering defenses against diabeetus. I ran the Nike Women's half marat...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Sep 23, 2010, 3:17 pm
Reader Finoyvoy kinda yelled at me. I didn't get the full "Kanye" but there was some Caps Lock going on there and an exclamation point. The question was, in effect, "Where have you been?" Rather than bore you with the mundane details of my academic life and its trappings of making PowerPoint present...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Aug 24, 2010, 10:42 pm
I've always been a moderate Ceelo Green fan. I like Gnarls Barkley but have never been rabid about it and though I closetly enjoy "Closet Freak," his R&B work was never a favorite. Then earlier this summer I heard his contribution to the Twilight: Eclipse soundtrack (I can't believe I just typed th...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Aug 19, 2010, 3:30 pm
. I am probably the last person with Internet access in an industrialized nation to have not seen the Antoine Dodson "Bed Intruder" YouTube clip or the remixed musical meme of said clip that is currently sweeping the nation. This isn't out of sheer obstinancy, like my refusal to see Avatar or Titani...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Aug 18, 2010, 9:30 pm
1) I didn't do abysmally on the GREs. Yay for being middling! 2) I want to go see Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World because it's based on a Korean/French Canadian writer's comic book series and actually has Asian people in it. Okay, so one of those Asians is in love with Michael Cera's character, but I've...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Aug 2, 2010, 2:24 pm
I am only writing because I lost two Google Readers sometime this past week and the Internets has instilled a narcissistic shame pattern in me that says my self-worth is quantifiable in analytics data and Facebook "likes." Without them, I am NOTHING. But I understand why I would be deleted from prec...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jul 26, 2010, 12:57 am
My god, I fucking hate math. This right here is the kind of nonsense that partially stands between me and getting into a PhD program. The injustice and sheer absurdity of that fact is making me even more surly than usual. Here is an aptly named mathematical inequality: SK These kids could solve...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jul 16, 2010, 4:46 pm
You know, there are few truly pure pleasures in life. And what is described above in my friend's Facebook status update is one of them. I know, we shouldn't wish ill-will toward anyone, friend or enemy. But what's the point of promoting the concept of karma if we can't get a little bit o' satisfacti...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jul 15, 2010, 2:51 pm
I'm studying like a good Asian so no posts this week. I'm a bad Asian in that I waited until Thursday to tell you all that. I have one month to get a decent GRE score (historically, this test hath kicked my ass) and right now I'm madly trying to get thesis research started, get fellowship applicatio...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jul 8, 2010, 9:53 pm
On my most frequently used freeway exit -- which is perpetually backed up -- I always glance to my left and see a big yellow sign that reads: POST TOOL. I Googled it and it turns out it is exactly what it sounds like: a store that sells professional tools for contractors and hardcore home improvemen...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jun 18, 2010, 3:26 pm
As you may have heard, Asian American bloggers have gone straight gangsta on one another. Well, "gangsta" in one of the nerdiest ways possible. I myself am still developing that perfect emoticon that encapsulates the sentiment "What, bitch?!" Never did I think I'd long for the days when all we did ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jun 15, 2010, 5:53 pm
We all wish we had a sonsaengnim like this guy. Via Buzzfeed, this Korean English instructor provides a much-needed lesson in how to interpret English swear words. Not to use them of course, but to understand when swears are directed toward you and to not respond with "0kay, thank you" when someone ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jun 15, 2010, 9:00 am
1. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Michael K from DListed is a genius. Anyone who can make fun Catherine Zeta-Jones, plastic surgery, and The Joy Luck Club in one fell swoop deserves a Nobel prize of some sort. 2. The Necessity of a Thao Nguyen/Feist duet I made a lovely mix to play in ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jun 14, 2010, 12:22 pm
Stop right there: I am not trying to exotify hapas and coo about how hawt hybrids are. I am extolling the hawtness of one person who happens to be hapa (HTBH). Feel free to use the acronym HTB_ when you sincerely don't have a sexual fetish and have to explain that to others. Example: "I'm seeing som...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jun 14, 2010, 6:38 am
Well, I gotta follow up that majorly depressing post with something lighthearted. I toyed around with a few ideas: Salma Hayek freaking out about that snake? The boffo box office dollars raked in by the karate-less Karate Kid remake which beat a Mr. T-less A-Team remake? Lindsay Lohan using her SCRA...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jun 14, 2010, 6:37 am
The ads have been circulating for weeks: sales on polo shirts, golf balls, portable GPS's, Black & Decker power drills. Father's Day is coming up in one week exactly. Show your pops some love by buying him a pair of stain-resistant Docker's or some new grilling tongs. I, myself, am exempt from squan...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jun 8, 2010, 11:36 pm
I only learned about San Francisco's annual Masturbate-a-thon -- sponsored by the Center for Sex and Culture -- last year when a Japanese fella named Masanobu Sato broke his own record with a jaw-dropping 9 hour and 58 minute go 'round with himself. Sato didn't return to this year's contest, but tha...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jun 7, 2010, 6:55 pm
I used to blame my lack of funds to pay for cable as my excuse for not watching any of the MTV Movie Awards, but with the advent of easy access to television on the Internet, I now have to admit that I don’t tune in because they suck. But again, that has always been the appeal. In what sane arena ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Jun 4, 2010, 2:05 am
I was reading this article from The Onion which pokes fun at David Simon's (The Wire, Treme) fictitious move to gritty dramas about happy, upper-middle-class white families, a natural transition from his gripping series about colored folk in Baltimore and New Orleans. I chuckled of course. I'm allow...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - May 27, 2010, 12:48 pm
We are the most vicious vampires. Fact. But Principal Figgins is South Asian...so he should have known that already. Minor quibble, though. Liked the Gaga episode of Glee, but would have liked "Paparazzi" to have gotten some love. Glad that "Telephone" was omitted because that song makes me want to ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - May 27, 2010, 1:37 am
In discussing Rihanna's new video "Rock Star," Gawker makes the startlingly acute observation that the singer sports blackface in her video. A Black singer. Is in Blackface. Not as political satire like in Bamboozled, but just like all those uninformed, ignorant high fashion models that were slathe...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - May 25, 2010, 7:55 pm
Hey, I don't know if you were aware, but... ...Jake Gyllenhaal is Persian. Pass it on... In honor of this revelation, I've come up with a list of others who have been shortlisted for The Bronzer Awards. The Bronzer Awards honors white actors who have somehow managed to be cast in films as non-white ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - May 21, 2010, 2:50 am
Finals are over and when I'm not studying for GREs or starting thesis research this summer, I'll be an office drone 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. You know what that means? Pretending like I'm working while I scour the Internet. Which means 40 hours a week of finding inane shit to write a...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - May 21, 2010, 2:27 am
This year was my first time attending Bay to Breakers, an annual footrace which is less so a running competition or more so an excuse for young-ish Bay Area residents to dress in ridiculous costumes and get smashed whilst traipsing through the city. I dressed up as a hipster, but quickly realized wh...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - May 19, 2010, 3:59 pm
Just kidding. She ain't going nowhere. But this year, she's a little less pious and little more brown. Miss USA 2010 -- yes, 2010, because no one has the good sense to shoot a dying media horse to ease everyone's suffering -- is Rima Fakih, a Lebanese American Michigander who is also a ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - May 5, 2010, 12:13 am
Springtime + Distractions + Laziness + Finals + Panic = No time for blogging. But in mid- to late-May I will no longer have an excuse. And who knows? By then there may be more oil spills, thwarted bombings, bans on Ethnic Studies curriculum, flooding, racist Harvard law school emails, and some oth...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 28, 2010, 4:32 pm
First of all, if you haven't watched this show, you are missing out on one of the most entertaining series currently on television. You don't even need cable; you can watch it online for free on Logo TV's website. I suggest catching up on both seasons, the second which just wrapped and a...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 27, 2010, 2:09 am
If I were your blog significant other, you would have dumped me by now. I promised I'd write frequently, I did for a week and then totally relapsed by only posting once in the past seven days. And it was about boobs and race. Seriously. And now I'm following up that abysmal week with a fil...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 20, 2010, 10:56 pm
That paragon of journalistic integrity known as the NY Post just did a short piece on the decline of the faux boob. In essence: Fake tits are so passé. At least if you're trying to make it in Hollywood. Oh, mercurial Hollywood. You get implants just so they'll let you in to audition — s...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 16, 2010, 7:32 pm
Okay, well I'm in LA now, but tomorrow I will be at Claremont Graduate University for the "What Can I Do With Asian American Studies?" Conference. I will be attending as an AAS grad student, but also speaking on the New Media and Arts panel alongside filmmaker Tad Nakamura and Giant Robot's ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 14, 2010, 3:30 pm
From CNN: Anti-semitism has increased worldwide, doubling between 2008 and 2009. During my own personal investigation, I've also learned that Mel Gibson hasn't worked as an actor or director since 2006's Apocalypto. Coincidence? I think not, Sugar Tits. Also from CNN: A thoughtful essa...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 13, 2010, 3:12 am
The good folks over at The Root created a list of "The Blackest White Folks We Know" a while back, which provided endless amusement and chuckles for me as you can probably imagine. You see, people of color are allowed to do that. It's retribution for, you know, generations of institutional racis...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 13, 2010, 2:15 am
To my Midwestern peeps from the sister who abandoned you for the West Coast, This Friday in the Windy City, you can catch Dawen and a host of talented Asian American folk at the Declare INDIE 3 concert. Check out their Facebook event page for more info and for crying out loud, if you can't shel...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 9, 2010, 1:59 pm
My high school reunion is this summer, which means it's been 10 years since I left my suburban high school in a trail of Ohioan dust and tears of joy. I was 17 and just starting develop a consciousness of who I was as an Asian American in a nearly all-white environment where the black/white raci...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 8, 2010, 6:17 pm
Not since the days of Tupac and Biggie have I felt so conflicted about which North American seaboard is a better fit for me. It's a rivalry as old as the one between...Northern and Southern California. Yeah, that's right. We're so massive, we have internal, regional hate! Last week, I s...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 7, 2010, 1:40 pm
When I think of going to event, my decision hinges upon a few key words: Asian American. Film. Free. Just throw "bacon" in there, and it's no contest. If you're an Angeleno (or one of those suburbanites who pretends because it's just easier to say "LA"), you should check out ETHNO LA, ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 6, 2010, 1:35 pm
The good folks at Mochi Magazine, the online publication for young Asian American women, will be launching their first comprehensive college guide this spring. This would have been extremely helpful for me when I was applying to college back in 2000 (damn...) and didn't know about being sexile...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 5, 2010, 9:34 pm
Continued... The Asian American "Jersey Shore" Via 8Asians, casting has begun for a Koreatown reality series. The show seeks "attractive Asian-Americans with lively, strong, and unique personalities between the ages of 18 to 30 with equally interesting life stories and perspectives to share, espec...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 5, 2010, 6:14 pm
Distant blogger, darlin', ooo hoo hoo So many miles away, ooo please Oh please, baby, think about me Hey, in misery Yes, I just desecrated a Marvin Gaye song. And yes, it is more than hubris on my part to think you all have missed my endearingly obnoxious writing. Have I been inconsistent with ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Apr 5, 2010, 11:30 am
True story: After I got this email from Lawrence Huang, promoting the kick-off of Asian Pacific Awareness Month at Macalester College, I spent a good 10-12 minutes giddily repeating the school's name to myself. Macalester, Macalester, Macalester. Which then transitioned into "Mekka Lekka Hi M...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Mar 30, 2010, 12:34 pm
As if I haven't neglected this blog enough because of school and work, my lazy ass is now on vacation. Though my original plan was to be at Señor Tadpole's, channeling my inner Kitty Sanchez, I decided instead to visit loved ones on the East Coast for the next five days, bringing my sunny ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Mar 22, 2010, 5:36 pm
I write up movie reviews fairly often as part of my unpaid job as Film Editrix, and my mantra has always been: "Be honest and sugarcoat with some humor when necessary." I've learned from my idol Mary Poppins that a spoonful of sugar helps make it easier to tolerate crappy cinema. Wait, is that h...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Mar 16, 2010, 6:31 pm
Do you like free music? Actually, let me clarify. Do you like free, good music? Check it: Stereophonic Fattenings I know, "good" is rather subjective. My Ke$#!a could be your Santogold (if that is the case, you are not welcome here...), but if you like quality, sometimes obscure music but aren...
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