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We got a catalog at home the other day, and yes, it’s all about Halloween. Who knew we should start thinking about that now? In August. Mid-August, when Halloween is months away. After this mailing, I live in fear of Halloween and the idea of tiny Aangs and Kataras running through my neighborhood.
Apparently, I should [...]

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People-I believe my Avatar work is done. Check out how the film is imploding. Insert Evil Laugh Here!!

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We took a jaunt to our local Barnes & Noble today and here’s the Avatar display that greeted us.

Okay–what are my issues with this? First of all, trying to mix the movie with the real Aang? It just doesn’t work.
Second, let me say one of the things that we, as a family, loved about Avatar. [...]

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The Last Airbender is coming. My family and I see the ads, and at a trip to Barnes & Noble the other day, looked at a shelf of Last Airbender Mad Libs, Movie tie-ins of all sorts, and The Lost Scrolls, a collection from the original series. The last, of course, was the one that [...]

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One of the hardest things about being a multi-racial family is having to explain racism to your kid. (Okay, I think it should be a discussion in ALL families, regardless of race or ethnicity, but that is a subject for another post.) In our house, it’s an ongoing conversation, and one that is important to [...]

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I am somewhat in shock from what an idiot this man is. From Angry Asian Man, this tidbit about Glenn Beck guest host Chris Baker, and Joe Biden’s apparent transition to Japanese. Here’s a snippet from the March 31st broadcast of The Glenn Beck Program.
“Joe Biden…I don’t know if you’ve noticed but he’s turning Japanese. [...]

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and yesterday, I had a customer come to ask about them–what did we have and could she see them.
I showed her the vast array and then she said “Yeah, but don’t you have any that are more, um, Orient?”
WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE!!???

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