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November 16, 2005

Baseball, Katrina, Porn

Some thoughts on Kim Ng applying to become the general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Will she get the job? The writer of this story thinks Major League Baseball is not ready for a woman to be in charge.

Ng's name may look familiar to you because a year ago she was on the receiving end of some messed up racial remarks from Bill Singer, a Mets scout (and a former Dodgers pitcher), who derided Ng's Chinese heritage by speaking in mock Chinese. Thankfully, he got canned for that.

Filmmakers, something for you: Deadline for Visual Communications' Armed with a Camera is December 2. This grant is for emerging filmmakers, to help fund a 5-minute digital film.

Interested in hearing about Katrina first hand? Here's a local event for those in the Bay Area at UC Berkeley:
RELIEF, RETURN, AND RECONSTRUCTION
A Report Back from the Gulf: Vietnamese Communities after Hurricane Katrina
Monday Nov 21 - MLK Student Union - Heller Lounge
7-9 PM - FREE & refreshments will be served
sponsored by: vietbak - hardboiled - vsa
For more info, contact Allen Hong at hardboiled magazine (ayhong@berkeley.edu)

Here's a story about WantedList in this month's Wired magazine. We wrote about them in issue 6 (summer 2005) in our Take Out section. Don't remember that? This should jog your memory -- they founded a Netflix-like company that rents out porn.

Posted by Melissa at November 16, 2005 1:57 PM

Comments

No such luck for Kim Ng, although I was rooting for her to get the job. Ned Colletti, Assistant GM for the Giants gets it instead. Hey, what about that whole Giants-Dodgers rivalry?! See SF Gate's write-up.

Posted by: Amy at November 16, 2005 3:53 PM

Oops, I'm a little behind on the news. My excuse is that I've been sick for a week (and hence, kind of slow). Here's another write-up on yahoo.

Posted by: Melissa at November 17, 2005 9:34 AM