racist cheesesteaks

I still don't get why everyone thinks it's totally ok to be racist towards asian people, just because.

this one restaurant owner, Joseph Groh is the center of controversy because he won't change the name of his restaurant, which is called Chink's Steaks. the restaurant has been around forever and was named after his dad's childhood nickname , Chink, because he had slanty eyes.

asian americans in philly keep demanding that he change the name, but Groh just keeps saying "no" saying that his restaurant is old and he doesnt want to have to change the name, EVEN THOUGH he does admit he wouldnt dare name his restaurant Chinks now if it opened today... and the fat white people keep eating there too!

If I was the pissed off asians in Philly, I'd open a korean restaurant called Joseph Groh is One Racist Bastard SoonTobu House to retaliate and I'd have all my crazy filipina aunties do a sit-in in the restaurant.

(this entry brings back memories of when I went to philly a few years ago for a conference and lost my damn mind and ate 1.5 cheesesteaks in one night at like 3 am after a night of drinking)

tons of well read white people....

Today I decided I didn't give a flying fuck about studying, and made my way to the LA Times Book Festival where I had myself a grand old time!!

Jeff's passion in life is to constantly surround himself with more and more books, so he was having THE TIME OF HIS LIFE today at the book festival.

highlights of my day:
- eating a hot dog for lunch
- eating a hagan daaz ice cream bar
-attending a talk where Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm, interviewed Walter Mosely, mystery novel writer and author of Devil in a Blue Dress
- stopping by the Philippine Expressions Bookstand and buying cool books!
- laying on a grassy knoll near the Jans steps like a lazy fat cow for a long time and watching wee little children roll down the hill

Books I picked up:
- Philippine Recipes Made Easy
-Filipinos Everywhere: Displaced, Transported Overseas, Moving on in the Diaspora by E. San Juan Jr
- Overseras Filipino Workers by Freda Editha O. COntreras
- Philip Vera Cruz : A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement by Craid Scharlin and Lilia Villanueva