Tag: asian commercial guy

Some people think some of the things I do!

For the hell of it tonight, I decided to check out my website stats and see where my traffic is coming from. The two highest results yesterday were “Netshare and Windows XP made easy” and “Asian Commercial Guy.”

First, I’m glad the Netshare guide is still useful to some people. I don’t tether from my iPhone as I have WiFi everywhere I need, and I bring my laptop with me less and less to places without WiFi. I amazingly managed to go 5 days using a real computer only 2-3 times while on my entire trip to Arizona. The iPhone managed to handle everything I needed, and it is so much easier than getting out and firing up my power-sucking “desktop replacement” laptop.

Second, how awesome that other people consider to actually Google with various search terms referring to the AT&T/Shell Asian Commercial Guy, Tim Kang, which then has apparently led people to the dumb “Asian Media Watch” website I linked. I have to say, I hope my post played a small part in inspiring that reply from Anonymous on February 8th.

Some people even were searching on FMoblog and found my article talking about using it, Picasa, or Flickr (and subsequently why I hate the latter two). Since then, I started using Facebook which is vastly superior for exactly what I need to do picture-wise, and has the added benefit of being Facebook.

As a brief aside, I’m using Pandora right now to listen to more of Muse’s songs, and damn they are a really kick-ass band. Not to mention, of course, that other bands they play are pretty spot on to what I am feeling like I want to listen to right now, which is really fucking incredible if you think about it and how many different bands and tastes that covers. Hurrah for the Music Genome Project.

Anyway, if even more than a few people are searching and finding these things every day, its good to know for one I made something that helped a bunch of people, and secondly, different people and I also did something based on thinking of Tim Kang (no matter how gay that sounds). That topped off a great night of me cooking chicken francais, pasta, and bruschetta for some coworkers while we all watched “Lost,” which has an amazingly fitting title especially when the only episodes you have seen are the last 6. I have all the prior seasons, so perhaps I’ll catch up on our long weekend.

-Falaris

Asian Commercial Guy

You know the guy I’m talking about. Every time he appears in an ad for AT&T or Shell, I think “Hey its that Asian guy. He’s the Asian in every commercial.”

It turns out Asian Commercial Guy is Tim Kang. The 2nd photo of the cast from the show he is on is a much better picture if the first one doesn’t immediately hit you with who I’m talking about.

While I was googling “asian commercial guy att” I came across this wonderful little website. And it made me want to fucking vomit. It is the same kind of bullshit of Verizon getting in trouble when they actually went the extra mile to feature a black family in a commercial, and when the Dad talks about how he got ‘hosed’ for Christmas, black people had to freak out as if it was a racial slur. If you’re that fucking retarded to not just take the joke for being funny and not tie it into shit that happened 50 years ago, then you need to go to McDonalds, walk behind the counter, and shove your head into the fry vat and hold it there for about two minutes.

Even better, if you go to their main site, they discuss movies that aren’t offensive to asians, but it seems “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon,” just by having an asian in it, is indeed offensive. Why you ask? Because an asian woman is married to a white man. Why is that offensive? And I quote, “Well nothing except for the fact that most Asian women are married to white men. Stop being hypnotized by the media. What the hell Rob [Cohen].”

Did anyone think that maybe the actors themselves would have said “Hey wait a minute, this is slightly discriminatory to me” if they actually thought they were being shown in a stereotypically negative light? Or do they not have brains to think on their own? It isn’t like a black man walked up to a noose, smiled as he put it around his neck, jumped, and a logo for a rope company came up talking about the quality and strength of their ropes being strong enough to hang a man. And while I realize a lot of racism can be subtle, its pretty obvious there was no ill intention here.

We need watch groups, thats fair, but to jump on every little thing just hurts more than helps. I personally don’t sit there and even think about the race of someone unless its Asian Commercial Guy because he is the asian being used in every commercial lately.

Thank god there are only 141 hits on their website.

-Falaris