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Curtis Kin Haiku
10.19.00 -- The results of the Curtis Kin/Big Brother Asian American Film HaikuFu! competition are in! Below is the inspirational picture and demo haiku for the contest.
And the winners are...
The leaf drifts earthward.
Inside the house, I can't tell --
Am I famous yet?
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An interesting trend surfaced during this month's contest -- in the early weeks, many of the submissions came from men mocking "Big Brother." But as Curtis Kin survived to become the show's third place winner, more and more women began to submit haiku demonstrating ever-increasing levels of affection for the young New York lawyer.
We've awarded two prizes this month -- first place to Susie's "Thirty-two incher" haiku, which impressed us first for the innocent and ludicrously hyperbolic double entendre of the first line; second, for the Trinitron reference, which demonstrates a commitment to "Big Brother" esoterica; and third, for the postively anti-haikuesque chutzpah in the screaming newspaper headline style of the final line. Congratulations, Susie. Your prize is a copy of the July/August 2000 issue of "Asian in America," autographed by Margaret Cho.
Runner up goes to Bob Borden's efficient, brusque, and pleasantly mean-spirited "Say bye asian guy" haiku. Despite the fact that Mr. Borden's assessments of the unpopularity of the show and the lasting power of Mr. Kin seem to have been disproven by actual events, the haiku still made us chuckle and has a certain malicious elegance which deserves note.
And now, the rest of the fine submissions!
Curtis the Houseguest
We watched on nightly TV
Come over, be MY houseguest!
-- Gina, ginalynn@flash.net
hey America
living in a bubble world
anybody watching me
-- Julie, otisku@hotmail.com
Smile and laughter swing
Comes the witty and smart dude
Whew CURTIS you ROCK!
-- SmileyCute
As warm summer nights
give way to the rosy light
of dawn - Barbeque!!!
-- Kimberly Brown, wintercreek@hotmail.com
For a season we
watched Curtis live with humor
and integrity.
-- Kimberly Brown, wintercreek@hotmail.com
Curtis spent summer
tanning, pool rafting, living...
and making me smile.
-- Kimberly Brown, wintercreek@hotmail.com
Has been said to me
"Stuck to you like white on rice"
You know what that means?
-- Alioop, alyx@onebox.com
Curtis should have a recording
contract. a haiku i am not,
curtis can really sing. good-day
-- pat adams, srtleg@aol.com
Curtis Oh Curtis
Fall Comes and Big Brother Ends
Withdrawal Comes Me
-- Jane Lim
Big Brother's over
Feel like I lost a good friend
Curt, you kept it real!
-- Anonymous
Alas it's now known, 3rd,
is what Curtis won, now we have .....
Big Brother withdrawal syndrome !!
-- hp
If Curtis wins and
no one watches? Is he a
winner? I think not.
-- Bob Borden, pantsbob@aol.com
Curtis yellow man
In house with round eye losers
Thunder from the East!
-- Bob Borden, pantsbob@aol.com
The lone Asian asks,
"In the house of Big Brother,
where is the kim chee?"
-- Walter Kim, wakeem@aol.com
Few more weeks my pal
and Curtis is a big "Star."
The smart one by far !!
-- hp
Why Big Brother, why
Am I always so alone?
Oh yeah, this show blows
-- Eddie Quan, act5mgmt@aol.com
Reality shows:
Suppose they cast an Asian
And nobody watched?
-- Wes Kim, haiku@weskim.com
They say that I'm a
bore, but what do they know? Wait
just wait, I'll show you!
-- Grace Toy, gracey@asianavenue.com
Did they call him "Bruce?"
Pe-king at an Asian man
Curtis Big Brother
-- richKim, rich@talktotaka.com
He seems so normal
Yellow boy on T.V. screen
Not like Long Duk Dong
-- richKim, rich@talktotaka.com
Curtis Korean?
Curtis Chinese? His last name...
Curtis "Kin," not "Kim"
-- richKim, rich@talktotaka.com
Singing op-ra and
clog dancing seem queer but I
sniffed Brit-ney's panties!
-- Gedde Lee, sumyoungman@hotmail.com
Call one-nine-hundred
seven-four-O-one-thousand
Banish NOT Curtis
-- Anonymous
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