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When History Repeats itself

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

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#crb11bingo #TrueStory I am going to write WOW 200 times and OMG for the other 50 words. I am also going to say this the second draft of my review. I found myself just going on about all the little, amazing details to the story. I was near 500 words and could have written another 500. They Called Us Enemy is George Takei’s story in a graphic novel format. Along with Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and Harmony Becker the reader sees the years from early/mid-1940s […]

“They claim they did all this because they love me, but I must say, I’ve never been loved in such a bizarre fashion.”

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I borrowed George Takei’s Oh Myyy! from Caitlin_D and honestly, you can probably just read her assessment of it since I agree wholeheartedly. It’s a collection of memes amid Takei’s take on the internet. Despite the fact that he mentions several times that his Facebook page aims itself (successfully!) towards the demographics of men and women in their twenties and thirties, this book sounds like it was written for people of his own generation who don’t understand how the internet works. It’s funny — he’s a […]

“The Internet is a place where ideas compete, and bad ideas in particular get shared.”

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So anyone on the Internet knows who George Takei is; sure he was the original Sulu but anyone under 40 knows him primarily as the Internet’s gay Asian uncle. This is primarily a memoir about Takei’s time as an Internet phenomena including his early days on Twitter and current successes on Facebook. Nearly all of his web content is crowd sourced, which he acknowledges, and he reprints some of his most popular posts. In fact, my Webmaster told me the other day that my page often […]



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