pardon the indulgence, but decent pix are getting harder to come by.
proving my point, this one by mike tauber is from 2006 or so. it was taken as part of a goofy picture book of people who were mixed race based on 2000 u.s. census-approved racial categories (that's right, you white half-latinos or chinee-bangladeshis don't count!). much like coffee table pictorials of albino africans or green-eyed chinee, there's something pretty 1990 about it... or maybe i've just got an especially acute case of hybrid malaise. who buys this book, anyway?
the book (available for preorder on amazon.com), came to my attention while on the impromptu jesusland tour last week. pops' wife's daughter, who is also featured, came on by and gave me the head's up.
sure they didn't get my permission to publish the pic, but i don't care. besides being reacquainted with my old boobs and a time and place when i could wear holed jeans in public (aka not seoul), it's funny to see how quickly i've become a super flamer. clearly, this photo was in the waning days of my mexican identity dynasty.
22 July 2009
new book: portraits of half-closeted, half-korean, mexican pretenders
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I wonder if that freckled Nihon/afroed Jew fetish thing is less a biproduct of a particular time period than it is one of age groups. The way 2009-era coming-of-age hapas and their near middle-aged parents feel about their "specialness" today is probably about par with how 1999-era coming-of-age hapas and our near middle-aged parents felt. So these books are still bought.
A good parallel would be why gay bars last forever.
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