CREDITS FROM HILLARY THE pussylary(:

1. YOUR REAL NAME: Charmaine Leong


2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME (first 3 letters of your name + izzle): Charizzle - eh i shld change my name to that!


3. YOUR FLY GUY/GIRL NAME (first initial of first name, first 3 of your last): Cong -cong ur head la, cong!


4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME (fav colour + fav animal): Rainbowbear- nice nice, see i told you rainbow is PURRRfect!


5. YOUR DRUNK NAME (first 3 letters of your first name, then slam your hand on your keyboard): Cha6oi6


6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME ( first three letters of your last name+first 2 letters of your first name+ first 3 letters of your mum's name): Ongchele - haha. like not chinese.


7. SUPER HERO NAME ( fav colour+fav drink): Rainbowchrysenthemum


8. IRAQI NAME (2nd letter of your first name+ 3rd letter of last name+ any letter of middle name+ 3rd letter of your mum's maiden name+ letter of a sibling's first name+ last letter of your mum's maiden name): Chomelecr- WTH!HAHA


9. ACT CUTE NAME (fav animal & erase the last letter of it+ a YOKI behind): Beayoki


10. SMELLY NAME (fav colour + a TOIL in front of it): Toilrainbow

kaplan statement now available

Okay, so ignore the timestamp, it's actually Monday at 4:10pm EST. Regarding the incident at Wisconsin linked from this post, Leonard Kaplan has made his statement. I've uploaded it here.

Update, 8:30pm: The headline that seems to be going for AP news coverage of this is "Wis. professor acknowledges remarks about Hmong caused pain" (here). Is that really the best one-sentence upshot of this statement? Does one really have to be a thousand miles away from Madison to see that media coverage of this whole episode has been insane?

immortality is mine!

I was having a conversation with my dissertation advisor the other day about a couple of articles he has published that have recently received attention from some major media outlets. Then, however, we turned on to the true star turn of recent years: my own appearance in an article on blogging in Footnotes, the official journal of the American Sociological Association. Small-town boy detective finally hits the big time, I know. If you mail me your issue in a self-addressed stamped envelope, I will happily autograph it for you.

The interview was my attempt to push e-mail interviews to the next logical step by actually blogging the content of the interview as I was doing it (here, here, here, here). In the end, I just sent the reporter a set of links. If you read the article, see if you think my quotes read like a person writing for his blog rather than speaking to an interviewer.

I think the reporter did a great job with the article, although perhaps I'm biased since I'm quoted at length. I would have liked to have seen more sociology bloggers interviewed, as well as URLs of the blogs of those that were. Eszter is also interviewed in the article, as is C.N. Le, who I don't know personally, and Rebecca Hensley, who I don't know at all.