Not totally out of hiatus until Thursday, but just because I have some free time...

For willow!

Actor, director and writer. He started working very early, and got popular with 21 Jump Street. Recently he was in Little Fish. He practices multiple martial arts. He and his wife, Angela Rockwood-Nguyen, are spokespersons for The Paralysis Resource Center's Minority Communities Outreach Campaign.

And look at him.



( Dustin Nguyen pics )

Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, fled the country with his family during Saigon's Fall. Also was in The Slanted Screen. Whole filmography here.

Via everyone.

Listen to this woman, just listen to her, turn on the subtitles if you aren't as a good as English, but listen.

Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story.

Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

ETA: It reminds how some Spanish women once asked me how things were in Latin America, because they heard people were very poor, or were very rich, and since I had a computer, I must have been very rich. I told them no, I was actually probably as rich as they were, my family has a car, but we were definitely not rich. They were surprised I had the same things they had, not more, not less, and was still called "middle class" here. But then they told me I was an exception or something, or things in other Latin American countries besides mine were like that. Funny how mine is one of the poorest around here.