Check it out at the San Diego Art Institute space next to Victoria’s Secret/Horton Plaza. Thursday night 10:30 pm.
Tickets just $10.
It’s funny, tragic, provocative personal history. An American Filipino story.
But here’s what critic Bill Eadie of San Diego Story, the area’s premiere arts journal, had to say:
Come and by and go “Amok.” And if you can’t make it, contact me and I’ll bring it to your city!
San Diego for the weekend? Come on by Horton Plaza at the San Diego Art Institute space (to the left of Victoria’s Secret). Come for the panties, stay for the show! Amok is based on my columns and Filipino and Asian America history. Funny, tragic, and there’s a gong present.
Tickets $10! Click here!
Get Fringey. Go Amok!
I’m at the Marsh in SF for a 20-min excerpt of my Amok Monologues.
Check it out if you can. I may have a gong!
Yes it’s “all pucked up,” with stories from NPR, Harvard, and the murder of my cousin in SOMA.
And you’ll also see me call up the spirit of Jimmy Bob Amok!
But the big treat, the full show is in San Diego, at the San Diego International Fringe Festival, June 23-29. Come by if you can!
And if that’s not enough, listen to the latest “Emil Amok’s Takeout.”
Perfect if you’re feeling Comey-tose about now.
Hopefully, you will download a podcast, or see a show, and get energized!
We know that Manny Pacquiao can punch.
And that the champ is nobody’s punchline.
So why is it that in U.S. pop culture, that’s not true for the rest of us.
Have you noticed? Filipinos are way too often the punchline.
WTF?
It happened again the other night on the FX debut of “The Comedians.” Joshua Gad jokes about joining Billy Crystal in a sitcom. Talking to his agent on the phone, Gad says he wants Latinos to see his work; And blacks; And that other group. You know that group….
The agent then says, “Filipinos? (beat) They’re terrific.”
The tag doesn’t soften the blow.
Listen to the dialogue here: 150409_001
So we’re mentioned. That’s some consolation prize. Inclusion? I didn’t see any Filipinos in the cast.
It reminded me how Anchorman 2 had a Filipino dog eating joke that was really offensive. See my take here.
Replace “Filipino” with “Jew” and you know there’d be cries of anti-Semitism. It would be somewhat mitigated by the fact that the Jews are making the products on screen.
So that’s really the answer isn’t it? We need to see more American Filipinos producing and directing projects.
If that were the case, we can tell our own dog jokes.
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