In the vein of last year's Max Karson incident, Vent Magazine sent a Facebook message about a new bout of racism that occurred in Boulder, Colorado:

A 22-year-old Asian-American was repeatedly punched in the face early today in Boulder and forced to say "I love America," Boulder police reported.

That attack and a reported sexual assault led to condemnations from both university and city officials.

The Asian-American victim told investigators that he was walking in the area of 10th and Marine streets with friends about 1 a.m., singing a song from the movie "Team America." He said they were confronted by four men.

One of the men — described as being a blond white male about 19 or 20 — said, "Do you think you are an American?" called him a "Chinaman," punched him in the face "multiple times" and told him to say that he loved America, police said.

This is so sad. I love Team America, so I'm almost positive that the song the attackers were singing is "America! Fuck Yeah!". But the movie is a satire of American politics, and the song is meant to be ironic. What is it with people not understanding comedy and turning it into something ugly and sad instead?

Vent Magazine, an Asian American culture and politics magazine created by students at UC Davis, has just kicked off its website and Myspace pages. The design and aesthetics: hot, as usual.


Also hot - their new issue. Gosh, we need to do some articles about sex and our community!

Keep up the great work, guys!

A big, bad shoutout to our friends at UC Davis, who have penned an Asian American magazine of fantastic proportions. (I must say, we have sure copped out on a lot of work doing just a blog.)


Vent magazine was established I'm sure for largely the same reasons we were... to give underrepresented voices a platform from which to project their thoughts and viewpoints. In seeking to fulfill these goals they've come up with a beautiful, superbly well-written publication (downloadable here) as witty and irreverent as we are (and definitely more aesthetically pleasing.) Take a read - it's great stuff.

Damn, we need writers like that at Columbia working on our Blaaag. Keep it up!