tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823073892487105533.post4338970360410156262..comments2024-03-20T04:51:59.643-05:00Comments on Tales of West Hollywood: The Martian Boy Invites Me to "Play"NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823073892487105533.post-80754551635710860232017-12-07T06:16:24.462-06:002017-12-07T06:16:24.462-06:00I lived in Rock Island from 3rd grade through coll...I lived in Rock Island from 3rd grade through college. My parents moved to Indianapolis in 1995, but I still think of Rock Island as home. There's a story about "My First Chinese restaurant" on Tales of West Hollywood somewhere.NYSocBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823073892487105533.post-66964473418312197272017-12-06T23:33:27.606-06:002017-12-06T23:33:27.606-06:00Wow- I grew up in Rock Island. Didn't meet my ...Wow- I grew up in Rock Island. Didn't meet my first Asian friend until college, though. There WAS a Chinese restaurant down on the 20th Street Strip, at least through the 1960s. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823073892487105533.post-89709575327012346692016-10-15T14:13:52.208-05:002016-10-15T14:13:52.208-05:00Mr. Blowfish, my high school speech teacher, was m...Mr. Blowfish, my high school speech teacher, was married to a Vietnamese woman, and had three Swedish-Vietnamese sons, but I was not aware of that until over 20 years later.NYSocBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823073892487105533.post-54225807899526110162016-10-15T09:39:19.120-05:002016-10-15T09:39:19.120-05:00I was almost 9 years old; you'd think I would ...I was almost 9 years old; you'd think I would be able to recognize the Chinese language. But Rock Island was not very cosmopolitan -- we didn't even get a Chinese restaurant in town until I was in college -- so I may not have heard it before.NYSocBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com