a dapper (and sometimes disgruntled) take on popular culture
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Fashion, Pop Culture on Sep 2nd, 2010
Wrote a blog post for SFGate.com’s fashion blog, SF Unzipped — wanna hear it? Hear it goes…
William Ivey Long has an impressive track record when it comes to designing costumes for the divas and divos of the musical stage. He’s won Tony Awards for creating the costumes for “The Producers,” “Hairspray,” “Nine,” “Crazy for You,” [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Pop Culture, Television on Aug 25th, 2010
NBC’s show, The Event doesn’t air until September 20, but lucky for you, I can hook you up. Actually, I don’t have that much power. In fact, I don’t really have any power of that magnitude. I only have the power of teleportation. Nonetheless, NBC has the power to hook you up. They chose San [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Music, Pop Culture, Random, San Francisco on Aug 24th, 2010
I like how you can add “-pocalypse” to anything and it becomes a revelatory Armageddon-like crisis. For example, remember when there were heaps of snow on the East Coast in February and they called it “Snowpocalypse”? That was kind of cool — but not as cool as the term, “douchepocalypse” which I think originated from [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Pop Culture on Aug 16th, 2010
I am always open to new ways to workout. So when my friend Steve suggested learning Muay Thai at the mixed martial arts Mecca Fairtex in San Francisco, I was open to it.
Even so, I have this fear of doing organized learning in a gym setting. I feel all self-conscious. It makes me flashback to [...]
Posted in Asian American, Food on Jul 27th, 2010
After a night of hardcore partying with narcotics and donkey shows, my friends and I went to Bar Basic on 4th and Brannan to find a bunch of people singing drunken karaoke in a non-ironic way. It was like we accidentally crashed a corporate party where the uncool employees were forced to have a fun.
But [...]
Posted in Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Television on Jun 15th, 2010
After work, I planned to do the following (in sequential order):
1.) Grab a quick dinner consisting of rice crackers and a Cliff Bar at Bristol Farms in the SF Centre.
2.) Go to Bloomingdale’s and ponder whether or not to buy a certain Comme des Garçons shirt that has been on sale. Actually, I have been [...]
Posted in Events, Fashion, Magazines, San Francisco on May 18th, 2010
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I was featured in this month’s 7×7 Magazine as the best dressed male at the Ruffian Threads & Heirs Launch Party — which happened couple of months ago (it’s kind of old news but my ego told me to post it on my blog any way), I have to [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Video on May 3rd, 2010
On Saturday, I attended a screening of happythankyoumoreplease which was not only the Centerpiece Film at the San Francisco International Film Festival, but was directed and written by Josh Radnor (a.k.a. the homeboy who plays Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother).
Kate Mara and Josh Radnor, star and director of the Centerpiece film ‘happythankyoumoreplease’ [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Apr 28th, 2010
The 53rd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival started on April 22 and I am ready to jump on board! (I am a slow starter).
Nonetheless, I will be covering a handful of the films and, perhaps, conducting a couple of interviews, so stay tuned throughout the next week for my take on SFIFF 2010!
Posted in Fashion on Apr 27th, 2010
Make sure your Thursday is clear, because the NYC store known as OAK is gonna push their hipster goods via their private label, A.OK at a pop up shop.
I’ve been there a couple of times on my trips to New York, but never bought anything — mainly because the timing wasn’t right. Payday never landed [...]