Pictures from Campus Progress/Washington DC

Good news! My camera is back from the repair shop! Here are some of my pictures from our performance at Campus Progress, as well as some beautiful pictures of D.C.'s Metro Train Stations. I'd write captions fo all of them but it's too hot, so I'll just leave that up to your imagination.

The Metro Pass. Cute and recyclable.

I asked my friend Zakee who has lived in DC before whether it was safe to take the train and he replied "Hell yeah, it looks like Epcot Center!" As you can see he wasnt lyin'.



Below are pictures at Adams Morgan station, and what looks like a long tunnel is actually the escalators going up. Wayyyyyyy up.


And the view from up top...

The beautiful Omni Shoreham Hotel.


All their electric cords were covered in bunchy satin, which confused me for a little bit.

The hotel was mad old school, they had a shoe shine...

an old tele, that actually worked!

And inside our green room was a real chess set. I guess it helps breaks the tension, if you're going to be speaking to a large crowd such as Campus Progress...

Like the professional artist that she is, Michelle rehearsed...

but I could one think of food. Yummy... Our good friend Paul Fiores was also there and opened the show.

That's him all the way on the left, and that's his big-screen persona. As you can imagine the room was huge, and full of people. That little guy standing off-stage was the sign-language translator.
Paul's set was really good, and the sign-language guy kept up really well. But I was a little woried how he'd do once we got on. Surprisingly, he actually did continue to translate Listen Asshole, and I'm A Woman Not A Flava as fast as we were going. Unfortunately we dont' have any pictures of our performance, but if anyone's out there got a good one, email us!

2008 Campus Progress National Conference, 7/8/08

Hey everyone,

We will be performing in Washington DC at the Campus Progress National Conference. We are slated to perform at the end of the lunch plenary. For more info on the schedule of sessions and list of speakers, check out the conference website, which is linked to Campus Progress's main website: http://campusprogress.org/

Senator John Edwards will be the keynote speaker. The conference will be held on and at--

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert St NW
Washington, DC 20008

Hope to see you there.

Please pray for Derek Srisaranard

Hey everyone,

Earlier this week, some terrible news came through the wire about Derek Srisaranard, member of SULU Collective in NYC and a gifted photographer (we often use his amazing photos of us performing at the SULU Series on our My Space page). He is currently in critical condition at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn after a hit-and-run accident last Tuesday night; he has been in a coma since.

Please keep Derek and his family in your prayers. Updates about Derek's condition are being posted by his friends at the following site: http://dereksrisaranard.wordpress.com/

Love and peace,
Michelle

Introducing . . . Geeky Asian Guy!

So a friend of mine has started a blog called Geeky Asian Guy Blog. In his own words, he says, "I'd like the site to be sort of an Asian American Daily Show." His motto: "It's my karma and I'll cry if I want to."

There are three posts so far: one about an NYU report on Asian Americans that was printed in the NY Times, another on dressing tips for Asian American men, and finally a commentary about Republicans who are purporting that their computers have been hacked "by people working from inside China."

So here he is yall--Geeky Asian Guy! Enjoy!

http://www.geekyasianguy.com/

PS. And don't ask me to divulge his identity. That would be like . . . like following Superman to find out he's really Clark Kent. Or maybe I should have said that the other way around. I'm confused by my own analogy.

-M

Show Your Prince Love

I'm a Prince fan. It's only been in the last week or so that I've felt that I've been able to say that without cringing in anticipation of naysayers barraging me with comments about why Prince is a "Purple Freak." Not that I'm ashamed of being a Prince fan or that I don't stand up for him, it's just that after a while, when feeling like I'm fighting alone, I just get this beat-down sense about it.

But last week I was ecstatic to discover and be reminded that I'm not alone--there ARE other Prince fans out there--and they're fighting the good fight to honor Prince's musicial genius. Boston spoken word poet and friend, Giles Li recently wrote a post on his blog wishing Prince a Happy 50th Birthday and voiced all the feelings that serious Prince fans feel about the man and his music. Please read and enjoy--and respect.

http://gilesli.com/blog/2008/06/07/happy-50th-prince/

Love,
Michelle