Captain’s Log, Stardate 03.27.2007
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Valley of Betrayal by Tricia Goyer
It Happens Every Spring by Gary Chapman and Catherine Palmer
My grandma’s living room on a TV show…
I hope all y’all aren’t burned out on all the Asian American stuff, but my husband and I saw something the other night that had us laughing our fannies off.
I like the TV show Bones, and we were watching an old episode on our TiVo that we hadn’t had the time to watch earlier.
There was one scene where Dr. Brennan goes with a Chinese American anthropologist from the Jeffersonian Institute to an old Chinese woman’s home. They were sitting in her living room.
The room was furnished with lots of Chinese knickknacks, although the layout was standard—two couches facing each other with a coffee table in between, a fireplace at one side.
I noticed it before my husband did—the couch, a nice white brocade, was still covered with the slick, clear plastic cover it came in.
This practice of not removing the plastic cover off a couch or cloth-seat dining room chairs is VERY Chinese. Captain Caffeine’s grandmothers do this. Our friends’ parents and relatives and in-laws do this.
I don’t know if other ethnic-American groups do this—if your family does this, speak up! I’d love to know. It’s just incredibly authentic Chinese American, and it was hilarious to us to see it on a TV show. We both couldn’t stop laughing.
(Okay, writing it down for my blog post just doesn’t seem as funny as it did when we were watching the TV show. Sigh. I’m such a dork sometimes.)
Blog book giveaway:
To enter, go to the blog links below and post a comment there.
Valley of Betrayal by Tricia Goyer
It Happens Every Spring by Gary Chapman and Catherine Palmer
My grandma’s living room on a TV show…
I hope all y’all aren’t burned out on all the Asian American stuff, but my husband and I saw something the other night that had us laughing our fannies off.
I like the TV show Bones, and we were watching an old episode on our TiVo that we hadn’t had the time to watch earlier.
There was one scene where Dr. Brennan goes with a Chinese American anthropologist from the Jeffersonian Institute to an old Chinese woman’s home. They were sitting in her living room.
The room was furnished with lots of Chinese knickknacks, although the layout was standard—two couches facing each other with a coffee table in between, a fireplace at one side.
I noticed it before my husband did—the couch, a nice white brocade, was still covered with the slick, clear plastic cover it came in.
This practice of not removing the plastic cover off a couch or cloth-seat dining room chairs is VERY Chinese. Captain Caffeine’s grandmothers do this. Our friends’ parents and relatives and in-laws do this.
I don’t know if other ethnic-American groups do this—if your family does this, speak up! I’d love to know. It’s just incredibly authentic Chinese American, and it was hilarious to us to see it on a TV show. We both couldn’t stop laughing.
(Okay, writing it down for my blog post just doesn’t seem as funny as it did when we were watching the TV show. Sigh. I’m such a dork sometimes.)