February, 2009 // Posts published in February, 2009
2010 + Sex = Big Business
As Vancouver struggles to prepare itself for the Big Urine Testing Festival in 2010, so are the marketers of flesh. A number of ‘anti-Olympic’ and ‘anti-giant spectacle event’ websites are found throughout our cyberworld. One of the sites, “NO 2010 Olympics on Stolen land”, has an interesting piece on the sex trade that is readying itself for ...
Lucky the Chinese Lion
One of those cultural things associated with Chinese all over the world, is the Chinese Lion. You know, the one all the white folks always call the “dragon”, doing the “dragon dance”. Hopping, fancy-footin’ and swayin’ down a festive parade along to the beat of gongs and drums. I’ve always loved watching these psychedelic coloured, wild-eye ...
Chinese Canadian reflections
Life. What is it all about? You’re born, you learn, you struggle… and eventually, return to dust. And all for what? What is it that at the end of it all that makes meaning to what existence is all about. These are a few of the thoughts that have entered the minds of philosophers since the dawn ...
a banana on talk radio
Those who know the UGLY Chinese Canadian’s true identity knows that he has made a feeble effort in trying to hide his true identity. So, when tUCC was given a chance to air out with Chuck, on one of Canada’s more interesting talkshows, Charles Adler on-line … he gladly shared his frustration. Here’s a copy of the ...
Multi-media project on Chinese-Cdn headtax
We were forwarded this interesting project last week. A multi-media documentary to raise awareness of the Head tax imposed on Canada’s early Chinese. Also coincidental, was a researcher visiting Canada last week. A scholar from the ancestral homeland of many of Canada’s early Chinese-Canadians – the area in southern Guangdong province, known as Sei-Yap or Siyi ...
Has Hell froze over? Rafe supporting the NDP? Here are his reasons:
Like I’ve always bantered… Party politics suck. Parties work well when there is good leadership. But many people the UGLY Chinese Canadian bump into would claim, “I’m a long-time Conservative”… or, “I only vote Liberal”… or, “NDP, man. Only NDP”. What the UGLY Chinese Canadian would like to ask these good loyal party supporters is, do you ...
what to do with this Blog?
Well… I sort of resuscitated this in-your-face web log a few months back, but I really haven’t kept up with it. It’s interesting to learn that a few of you have noticed that I had removed over three quarters of this blog’s content. Why? Well, maybe it will become content for a compilation for my up and ...
Vancouver Mayor chooses photo op over Gang violence task force
I’ll reserve my bite … and allow others to speak their mind about Vancouver Mayor, Gregor Robertson. Surrey Mayor, Diane Watts, has shown admirable leadership in her no nonsense approach to running a City. She has once again, shown other politicians in the Vancouver region what real backbone is all about. Mayor Watts called an emergency ...
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