EPICANTHUS

I was just wandering the Net and stumbled across Jason Kaneshiro’s Webomatica, tech, movies, music and bottle caps blog over on WordPress. Jason’s review of New York-based artist Adrian Tomine’s indie comic sensation Optic Nerve led to a spot on WIRED’s Street Cred.

The protagonist/antagonist of the Optic Nerve series is the self-loathing Ben Tanaka.

Click here to catch up on the eerily true relationship fuck ups of Ben Tanaka and follow this link to learn more about the underground comic superstar about to pop like that pimple on your nose, Tomine.

You’ve gotta admit there’s something compelling about a gun-toting Asian graffiti bomber who doubles as a stripper exotic dancer. Well, Candy Ellen Srichandr is exactly that. Her reported involvement in a tagging related murder in Van Nuys, Calif. has had her on the lam since last May.

This is late notice, but watch PBS’ Independent Lens tonight. Sentenced Home tells the story of three Seattle Cambodian American youths as they face the Catch 22 of U.S. immigration laws revised to allow mass deportations of legal residents in the aftermath of 9/11. Repeats May 24.

West Hollywood’s Roger Yasukawa was the fastest of all on day three of qualifying for this year’s Indianapolis 500 piloting Dreyer/Reinbold Honda-powered Dallara to the day’s top average speed of 220.654. He’ll start next Sunday’s race in the middle of the eighth row.