Been keeping busy in NYC — the city so nice they had to name it twice. Here’s a brief roundup of for the latter half of March:

On March 14th, went with family friends to  Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) for a program of pieces choreographed and performed by students in their ISVP program international program. The highlights were some really nice partnering choreography, and the extended use of the Da Rockwilder instrumental.

March 15th was the Mandarin Meetup at Great Sizhuan restaurant. Overall win-win: two hours of Mandarin convo, good food, new friends.

The screening of Vincent Who? was the first trip of several to the ...read more

1. Man discovers benefit to smoking cigarettes
2. Why My Art Degree Makes Me a Kickass Addition to Your Team
3. What I’ve Been Up To Lately

Being a real culture vulture, it’s sometimes hard to keep track of all I’ve been up to. I can’t tell you how many times I wake up, shove the pile of critical theory books off my ultra-high thread-count sheets, and struggle to recall what kind of mind expanding event I attended or appeared at the night before. Bouncing around between Beijing, Hengdian, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and New York hasn’t made it any easier. Now that I have a permanent residence again — New York City — I’ve decided to do a roundup of the highlights of the last few months.

- Debating the merits of the Human Flesh Search Engine on BON TV in Beijing.

- Soon after that show was recorded, I spent 2.5 months in Hengdian (the Hollywood of China) as the teacher/assistant/bodyguard/etc. to Vincent Zhao (赵文卓). This is him in action. Here’s an interview on Chinese TV from the first day of shooting, I ...read more

1. Songs of Song
2. i fail to see what’s so complicated
3. So Much

Loyal reader: since you check this space daily, you’ve probably already noticed that I haven’t been blogging up a storm lately. In fact you can keep that umbrella for drizzle, because, since I usually get home and pass out before any profundity can be recorded and posted on the interwebs, the window of blogportunity (TM) is narrower than Snoop’s eyes. I’m tired because I spend 13 or so hours a day on the set of a kungfu TV show. It’s a long story but I’m documenting it, when not busy trying to steal swords from the prop guys, in mercifully brief pomes. Like Danny DeVito, the poems are short, pop up at weird times, and are lacking polish. They’re called Songs of Song because the show is set in that dynasty, and because Jesus, or one of his crew, said so.

I’m doing a lot of reading and posting a lot of the links on Tumblr. I am managing to post Tracks o the Day on Beats Royale fairly frequently. If ...read more

1. SongOTD: If This Southern Rap Song Was A French Cathedral Edition
2. Mmm, Blood Curd.
3. NO I AM NOT PREGNANT

I’m limiting this to fighters competing at a high level right now, so guys like Herring are out. I’m also not including dudes whose hair, while questionable at best, fits their “look.” So Hardy, Liddell and Sylvia’s mohawks, and even Roy “Big Country” Nelson’s glorious mullet, are excluded.

“Who cuts my hair? I do!”

Though he’s no longer “the baddest man on the planet,” ...read more

1. NO I AM NOT PREGNANT
2. Happy Birthday to the Greatest!
3. Can You Escape the Cage?

Badass photo from My Year in Seoul

It’s tiring being a celebrity blogger. I write a new post every 2-3 months and yet this still isn’t often enough for my reader. I’m on the internet all the freaking time and it’s not for me, it’s for you, dear reader. Proof of this can now be found at my newest project — the Tumblr tlog 10tonfunk Lite.

It’s been described (by me) thusly: “less filling, more flava. 10tons of readings, google image search successes, and bad puns. curated, in the shaq sense of the word, by fred dintenfass.” ...read more

1. If Your Life Was This Interesting
2. maybe (not)
3. NO I AM NOT GETTING MARRIED

He looked at his shirt. I pointed at the N and said “New,” and the Y and said “York.” He looked confused, or embarassed, or surprised, or maybe even mad. I couldn’t tell what he was feeling, because I didn’t speak the language of his feelings. “I not know was New York. In Chinese ny means ‘you.’ Thought was ‘I love you.’” It was then I noticed the “I♥NY” poster on the wall, and the “I♥NY” flag over the door, and the “I♥NY” dishtowels, and the “I♥NY” lunchbox on the kitchen table. I asked him, “Well, then why do you love everybody so much?”

– Jonathan Safran Foer “Extreme Loud & ...read more

1. If Your Life Was This Interesting
2. maybe (not)
3. NO I AM NOT GETTING MARRIED

Yes, I have an art degree, a bachelors in fine arts in painting. Now I realize it may not seem like my education makes me a great candidate for a position at your company unless you have an illiterate client that needs diagrams drawn or the walls are looking awfully bare (or, conversely, need painting — I have not only studied painting, I have repainted the dorms of an art school, which is meta manual labor). But I did more in school than

- study color theory
- develop an admiration for people who locked themselves in galleries with wild animals, or carefully glued rabbit ears to cockroaches to create ‘cockabunnies’ which were later released into a gallery (read Mysoon Rizk’s excellent article on this in the Aug 09 issue of Antennae)
- compile a list of artist types who killed their wives but remained free and popular.

Your ad says you’re looking for someone with problem solving ...read more

1. Imagination Giants: Go Check it Out
2. wow
3. top best ish of the past 10 years or so/rejoice thee

All the time people are asking me, Fred, what makes you tick? And tick I do, like the 38 kuai Lolex I bought from the guy with a briefcase full of them in Sanlitun while I was watching the coed pole dance routine through the window of one of those clubs across from The Village.

Obviously I can’t fit it all into my Twitter profile, but I do wear a lot of hats besides my vintage pleather yarmulke. I’m a social media marketer. I’m a moody foody (copyright pending bitches) — so-called because of the time I nearly used the thing they make guacamole with to bludgeon a waiter at a “Mexican restaurant” to death over a missing burrito; if my strength hadn’t been sapped by low blood sugar it would’ve been ugly. I’m a black belt level twitterbator and also very good at Taebo. I’m at least a purple belt by now in Krav Maga which is a kosher kind of whupass. I’m a neural networker. I collect avatars like so many ears on a string around my neck so when I say ‘good morning Twietnam’ like the rappers do it’s no joke. Apple products make me hard. Speaking of hard, I love Sting’s recent work and totally know Lady Gaga is ...read more

1. Senor Longface
2. Mmm, Blood Curd.
3. Obamanation goes INT’L : BARACK THAT VOTE!

A twitter friend/follower/acolyte/tweep @gr8bad originally sent me this article towards the end of July. I downloaded it, which was fortunate as it was almost immediately pulled offline. It took me a long time to get through it, but once I reached the end and read the comments I realized I was reading the words of a jailed man. By the time I finished the article, the author, Xu Zhiyong, was already halfway through a 3 week detainment which ended with him being charged with tax-related crimes.

Xu Zhiyong is a Chinese lawyer who represented victims of the Sanlu milk scandal and parents of Sichuan earthquake victims. He is the head of the Open Constitution Initiative. You should Google ...read more

1. smart people
2. the old new china buffet + my eybrow
3. this is shameful

This mix was made a few years back by myself, Big Squeeze, and the world’s greatest DJ — Prince Ruff aka Little Joey Schoenecker aka Joe Schoenecker aka Grandmaster Onassis aka Skinny Baby Jesus — back when we were 2/3rds of Young, Gifted and Black.  If you’re in the midwest be sure to go check him out. He lives here in cyberspace.

Stocking 1: Big Squeeze