kal penn

This saturday, I went to a talk by Kal Penn on diversity in media. I first learned about him was when he starred as the hilarious Taj Mahal Badalandabad in Van Wilder 2, and then he was one of the doctors in House. Also, his role as Kumar in the movie - Harold and Kumar is one of the most imitated halloween characters. He is definitely the coolest indian after Russel Peters.

His show, or should I say talk, was about diversity in media nowadays. Most of his movies are mostly constructed from pure randomness, and he is always acting as the horny and awkward Indian. However, he says that his actions in the movies do not really reflect indians in general, as he is only playing a character with unique and specific characteristics. He also talks about a phenomenon, where asians/africanamericans (a.k.a minorities) are always stereotyped in movies or tv shows. Nerds, asexual, hypersexual, incompotent and weird accents are what people expect to see from minority actors. Kal thinks that this should be changed, and people should treat each actor as an individual character instead of sterotyping them by their ethnicity. What Kal talked about is actually very apparent, I mean, don't u realize asians that appear on tv are always thoses nerds with glasses or the ones that speak english with a huge accent?
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Pledge party at ACACIA tonight, not much happened. Just a few beers and chilling.
When we were leaving, this antique mercedes benz had a hard time getting up the driveway, so I went over and helped. First time pushing a car with my bare hands, all i can say is, it is very tiring.