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Fray Cafe 6 - Tales of Immigration Officials

In I've Journal on 15 March 2006. Tagged agendacide, fray, fray cafe, immigration, lappop, littleyellowdifferent, nicole lee, sxsw, sxsw2006, sxswi.

Min Jung convinced me to partake in her upcoming Lap-Pop event. It’s supposed to be a convergence of Asian Americans and geekery, hosted by Locus Arts. The idea is to get some Asian American bloggers/photologgers to share their writing, art, photography and/or music. The first one was excellent and featured readings from Ernie, Glenda and music from Annie Lin - a hard show to follow (especially being Asian Canadian and all).

When asked if there was anything I’d like to do for 5-8 minutes, I figured the truly interesting and rather unique anecdotes in my blog all revolved around my interactions with immigration officials through my travels.

During SxSW, I heard about Fray Cafe, which is the live version of Fray (now on hiatus). It’s an open mic held annually where participants told true stories for 5mins each. Glenda did one last year about how she met Flavor Flav. So in addition to getting Nicole to tell her excellent story on getting married, I figured I may as well use this as an opportunity to do a warm up for Lap-Pop. How was I supposed to know that my friend Leslie would be recording it?

Next time: less German story, more on the asshole US INS one.

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