Fafi Comics

A snipette of the upcoming comic, via TBA

TrashBagAesthetics caught up with Fafi to talk about her upcoming project.  She’s droppin a comic featuring the Fafinettes in 2010!

San Francisco Back in the Day

Just found this amazing website holding old news paper articles from San Francisco in its earliest days.  Enjoy!

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/index0.html

EV71

Last week, I read a blurb on msn.com about EV71 spreading in China. At the time of reporting, there were 22 children dead and about 1,500 infected. I was really surprised that I had not heard about this in local news. Then as the days went by, the number of infected rose dramatically as reported by big media giants. Today, nearly a week later, googlenews is reporting the total has gone up to 16,000 infected from the original reporting at the end of April. (Today is only 8 May) Something fishy is going on in the media.

Here in Hong Kong, I depend on The Standard for current events. Although this isn’t the most reliable source of news, I certainly expected to read about deadly viruses occurring right across the border. My cynical side says that the Chinese government is holding back information as they did with SARS, but I also believe that that can’t be possible. Perhaps the people don’t even realize they have the virus and they’re just spreading it like a bad STD (or is it ‘STI’ these days?) Never the less, HK media I feel has not been doing a great job at reporting this topic. Surprising in a society that talks about good hygiene so much.