I'm kind of tired

Today’s message starts out downhearted but there’s fun stuff at the end.

I feel like the world is telling me to stop complaining about the way Asian people are treated. Not in any direct way, but just through complacency and indifference.

I just finished reading a comic called Birthright. It’s a fun engaging story, and it’s from Image Comics/Skybound, so in the back there are previews for other series from the same company to give you a taste of what they are like.

In the last issue I read, the preview was for a comic book called Fire Power. It’s about an Asian-American (adopted by white parents) who seeks his destiny as a martial arts warrior. Here’s the cover.

The creators are Robert Kirkman and Chris Samnee. Here is a picture of Robert Kirkman and Chris Samnee.

How in 2021 do we not only have a series about an Asian-American traveling to the east (and meeting mystic gurus) and it’s two white dudes making it, and literally no one cares?

I mean, I’m not even sure if I care. I’ve liked Kirkman’s stuff before, so maybe the series is fun.

I guess I’m just tired that Asian culture is used so often without actually involving Asian people. And I don’t even have the energy to raise a stink about this one, because I intuit that the output of effort to have the conversation is out of proportion to the actual change that will happen, or even the interest that anyone white will have in the discussion.

Anyway, cut to six months from now when I’m like “Fire Power is so good and I would love to play Joe Lo Mein the lovable sidekick in it!!!”

Fun stuff:

• Take it with a grain of salt, but this is a test to see who verbally creative you are.

• The high jump provided my favorite moment of the Olympics so far.

• Bella Poarch’s “Build a Bitch” is my favorite song of 2021.

• I made a delicious condiment in my pressure cooker/slow cooker: tomatoes, olive oil, salt, garlic, rosemary, whatever else you want to season it with, slow cook/pressure cook for 3-6 hours, and mash it up (I blended it). I’m thinking of taking this approach with any vegetables we aren’t getting around to using.

• And for that, get some squeeze bottles so you have the tasty sauce at the ready (no affiliate link, I’m too lazy to make one).

• Finally, this is my favorite recent purchase, a USB-powered stick to treat insect bites. If you get a mosquito bite, you hold this on it, and it heats it up and kind of kills the itch. I don’t really know how it works. And you panic for a second because it is really hot. But then it’s not and you don’t itch anymore.