APIOPA's First Annual Table Tennis Fundraiser

Support the Asian and Pacific Islander Obesity Prevention Alliance, October 20 at Peking Tavern



Hey, Los Angeles. Ready to get your ping pong game on for a good cause? The Asian and Pacific Islander Obesity Prevention Alliance (APIOPA) invites you to its First Annual Table Tennis Fundraiser.

Enjoy a night of yummy food and drinks and watch rivals like UCLA and USC play for table tennis supremacy, all while supporting the fight against childhood obesity. It's happening Monday evening, October 20 at Peking Tavern.

Here are some more details about the fundraiser:

Those silly Asians in and their "Ping Pong" dreams

Hey, look! Asians in Armin van Buuren's latest music video



Nerdy Asian alert. There's a whole bunch of Asian people in this music video for electronic artist Armin van Buuren's "Ping Pong," including one dude with some very ambitious table tennis dreams. Because if call your song "Ping Pong," you gotta have some Asians up in there, right? It's all very silly, but fun.

music video: "he's the one" by edie sedgwick

If you listened to the latest episode of the Sound and Fury podcast with guest Lynn Chen, you know about her upcoming adventures singing with the band Edie Sedgwick this month on their European tour. Here's the band's new music video for "He's the One." Lynn's not in it, but check out the kickass ping pong kid:

Bruce played ping pong?

Clever "found footage" video imagines Bruce with kickass ping pong skills.



Here's a funny video making the rounds... this Chinese commercial for the Nokia N96 features "Bruce Lee" kicking ass in ping pong... no paddle necessary. This obviously isn't found footage. (The YouTube comments are a bit baffling -- of course it's fake.) But it's still pretty amusing. It certainly speaks to the legend of Bruce Lee and his celebrated physical prowess that people would even entertain the possibility that this is real.