May 22, 2004

Is William Hung the Asian Buckwheat? (and what's up with the writers facial hair?)
posted by Argh 20 years ago
  • This wankery's been brewing for a couple of months. It picked up steam after the "Gay or Asian" Details debacle, and odds are that Jin the Chinese rapper will take the wankery to boiling point when he blows up. Neither the capitalists profiting from Hung's mockery nor the consumers buying it are half as cruel as the watchdogs attributing his meager success to racism. Not half as dumb either.
  • I want to hear what Phil Collins has to say about this.
  • First: I don't like American Idol. I don't like William Hung's singing. I don't like the media rush over him. But having said that, and with a wife & daughter who just adored Hung, I have to say... What a dick that writer is...Hung's success is based largely on his naivete and innocence, which seem to be pretty sincere. He "broke through" the pack of bland, candy-cutter wannabes for a brief moment, enjoyed his 15 minutes, did it with "passion" (or as much as a human can have for a Ricky Martin song), and America collectively enjoyed it -- but NOT because Hung is Asian, or has buck-teeth, or has an accent. I'd wager that to most of his fans, those qualities were endearing, not "stereotypical" or racist. /rant
  • People like William Hung for the same reasons they liked Mrs Miller and all the other bad novelty acts. I don't actually know what this reason is, but it's got there. Somewhere.
  • He can't be the Asian buckwheat. That's my job. Well, the Amerasian Buckwheat, at the very least...
  • William Hung = Florence Foster Jenkins.
  • i just can't believe that the writer couldn't find a way to invoke 9-11 until the last paragraph. no way at all to put that up higher? 'cause it would have saved me from reading any more of his wankery. and the facial hair is straight out of a boy band. seriously. samuel l. jackson might look cool with a soul patch. al leong can pull off the mustache-and-little-pointy-chin-beard combo and still kick ass (or take a bullet with style). this guy just looks like someone took a black sharpie and defaced his photo.
  • Makes him look like Snidely Whiplash's weenie stepnephew. Like he wouldn't actually tie a woman to the tracks, but he might sit there and stare at her and think about it really hard.
  • That "mustache-and-little-pointy-chin-beard combo" is right out of The Three Musketeers. Picture the big wide-brimmed hat and the sword in his hand and it totally works.
  • Now, if you google image search "randy henderson", you get this guys pic...a used car salesman from N.C. Same lame facial hair. I like to call it the Henderson Effect