a dapper (and sometimes disgruntled) take on popular culture
Posted in Actors, Asian, Asian American, Asian Americans, Celebrities, Entertainment, Pop Culture, Television on Feb 2nd, 2010
In this week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother, Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) tries to have the “Perfect Week” (hence the title of the show) by sleeping with a different lady every night – but his danger of genital wart-infused promiscuity isn’t the focus of this episode. The focus (for me at least) was [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Pop Culture, Television on Jan 19th, 2010
Besides the ‘but ummm’ drinking game, tonight’s episode (which, by the way, was directed by the Notorious NPH – Neil Patrick Harris) of How I Met Your Mother presented the brilliant “reacher or settler” philosophy.
Marshall and ‘Jenkins’ make it hot on the 101st episode of HIMYM
The episode titled “Jenkins” has Marshall (Jason Segel) kind of [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Fashion, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Television on Jan 18th, 2010
The rock n’ roll romper stomper dandiness of Varvatos’s Fall 2010 collection showed in Milan on Jan. 17 (Photo by: Andrew Thomas)
What to watch on the runway:
Men’s Fashion Week: Sexually ambiguous models will strut their stuff down the runway in Milan and Paris to show us what us guys will look like this [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Fashion, Pop Culture, Television, Video on Jan 13th, 2010
Barney Stinson. Musical number. Choreography. Suits.
It’s about damn time they utilized NPH’s musical chops – and with a sartorial angle at that. Two of my favorite things combined into one.
Besides the brilliant closing musical number, this had to be one of the best episodes yet. Tim Gunn played Barney’s tailor (hence the performance of “Nothing [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Fashion, Film, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Television on Jan 10th, 2010
The new cast of Project Runway season 7 comes back to New York
What to watch on TV:
Sunday, Jan. 10: Brand new episodes: Big Love on HBO and Chuck on NBC.
Monday, Jan. 11: A new episode of How I Met Your Mother (CBS) featuring title character hopeful played by Rachel Bilson and guest star Tim Gunn [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Pop Culture, Television, Video on Dec 5th, 2009
Genius.
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Fashion, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, Work on Aug 17th, 2009
When I did my interview with Margaret Cho for Hyphen Magazine (yes, this is a shameless name drop) I asked her about the state of Asian Americans in entertainment and she answered…
There’s a great crop of (Asian American) talent. There are a couple of more Asian faces here and there – that is great. The [...]
Posted in Actors, Actresses, Celebrities, Entertainment, Pop Culture, Television, Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2009
There are so many television shows out there and seeing as though I watch a lot of TV, I watch a lot of said shows. But like the rest of the Twitterfied public, I have a short attention span. I get obsessed with a show and then my interest wanes. The reason for the waning [...]
Posted in Actors, CBS, Entertainment, How I Met Your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris, Quotes, Television on Mar 12th, 2009
A hug is like a public dry hump.
-Barney
Posted in Actors, CBS, How I Met Your Mother, Pop Culture, Quotes, Television on Feb 16th, 2009
Marshall: Why can’t two guys who are friends go to brunch?
Ted: Because brunch is kind of…
Robin: Girly.
Marshall: Breakfast isn’t girly. Lunch isn’t girly. What makes brunch girly?
Ted: I don’t know. There is nothing girly about a horse or a horn. Put them together and you have a unicorn.
- as said in the World’s Greatest Couple [...]