Extras

building a super-soldier. I mean: I don’t believe our society is so lost to militarism that we’ve abandoned the push-me-pull-you of human benefit and insane profits. We’re far too capitalist to ever go there. True militarism gets in the way of profit.

founded Hyphen magazine and began speaking to the world through the, at that time, only national pan-Asian American magazine. It’s still one of my proudest accomplishments, and when the letters to the editor started coming in, proving that people were hearing and talking back, the feeling was indescribable.

For those of you who like to read with music, or just need musical accompaniment in their lives, here’s my Monkey Around “Soundtrack.”

For those of you who hear the words spoken in your heads, here’s a pronunciation guide for the less familiar words and names in MONKEY AROUND.