LINKS: Welcome to Substack! Koreans in Mexico Joy, Houston Seafood City, Knicks In Five!, Boycotting Asian Businesses, Hospital of Emotions
Saturday I’m in New Orleans for the first time.
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ALSO. I’m about to perform my GOOD EGG standup comedy tour inside of North America’s LARGEST Seafood City. Hahahahahahahaha what is my life? Let your HOUSTON people know. Still some tickets left. NEW ORLEANS too! Come through! Both spots are markets but also serve INCREDIBLE FOOD. I mean. Yum.
Remember to check out the current episode with Peter S. Kim and Eunnuri Lee - a very Korean episode! We answer questions like: ARE KOREANS THE KARENS OF ASIANS???
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THIS WEEK’S GUT PUNCH: This photo my friend and brilliant food and cocktail writer Esther Tseng took a photo of this new Hospital of Emotions installation in Los Angeles and it really got to me as someone who has had two miscarriages and ten failed IVFs. Thank you @melanmadethat on IG for making this art.
What have you been thinking about?
LINKS TO FEEL SOME JOY
ALL I WANT TO SEE IS KOREAN AND MEXICAN SOCCER FAN JOY! Literally any video you see of Koreans partying with Mexicans will snap you out of a funk. This Korean comedian bowerymia on IG tells Koreans to give themselves to the Mexicans and free their inner child.
KNICKS IN FOUR TURNED INTO KNICKS IN FIVE AND THIS GUYS CHANTS KEEP GIVING. Instagram Video. It almost makes me feel like I’m a New Yorker fr.
THIS MONK STRUGGLES WITH DESIRES EVERY DAY AND THEY ARE VERY RELATABLE! Instagram Video
LINKS TO BETTER YOUR LIFE
HIGH-FUNCTIONING WOMEN: WE CAN BE DEPRESSED BUT STILL MAINTAINING OUR LIVES. IT’S A THING. Instagram Video.
LINKS TO SCRATCH YOUR BRAIN
AFTER ASIAN STORE OWNER RICK CHOW WAS FOUND “NOT GUILTY” FOR MURDERING A YOUNG BLACK BOY, BLACK CREATORS HAVE BEEN CALLING FOR A BOYCOTT OF ASIAN-OWNED BUSINESSES. THIS SOUTH ASIAN CREATOR WEIGHED IN. Instagram Video: “TBH, the value of the Black Dollars shouldn’t HAVE to be what motivates some of you, but if Black Lives aren’t enough for YOU, then they should do what they feel is right for them 🤷🏽♂️ #blacklivesmatter”
LINKS TO TOUCH GRASS
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH I’M IN HOUSTON SEAFOOD CITY!
SATURDAY, JUNE 20th I’M IN NEW ORLEANS! (for the first time!) Here’s one response from Frank Lang for where I should go: “Have a wonderful and successful trip. FYI Best donuts in New Orleans. Morning call coffee stand
5101 Canal Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70124. My mother’s hometown. Place of special memories.”
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