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Eric Cheung

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About Me

My dad's from Hong Kong and my mom's from Central Massachusetts, the third generation of an Italian family. I grew up in East Longmeadow, a suburb of Springfield, Mass. I'm sort of a hypochondriac, but mostly of the neurotic conditions. I'm friendly and outgoing, but paradoxically I'm socially inept in more complex situations. I'm a firm athiest, but I like some of the philosophical ideas from some religions: Yin and Yang, the Golden Rule, Karma, etc. I'm uncertain as to whether or not there's an afterlife.

For three and a half years I was a standup in Boston, now I've moved out to LA to see if there's a future in television.

PET PEEVES: Narrowing things down, breaking the fourth wall on the written (web)page, top 8 lists (I just let MySpace arbitrarily rank my friends. For some reason it put four boys on top of four girls.), people who cut in line (I'm not sure I'm convinced line saving is particularly fair either).

NON SEQUITUR: I may suck at sarcasm, but I rule at being humble.

See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dereklesterzeigfield for my adventures in standup while I was in Boston or http://blog.myspace.com/eric_cheung, http://ericcheung.livejournal.com, or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laericcheung for my new adventures in LA.
My score on The 3 Variable Funny Test :
the Wit
((61% dark, 26% spontaneous, 10% vulgar))
your humor style:CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARKYou like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat. I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer.Your sense of humor takes the most thought to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my opinion.You probably loved the Office. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/.PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky GervaisThe 3-Variable Funny Test! - it rules -If you're interested, try my best friend's best test: The Genghis Khan Genetic Fitness Masterpiece
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My Blog

Traveling in terms of states per day

I think I've just been the furthest inland in North America I've ever been.It started on Friday night, a trip Andy, Jessie, MB and I had been planning for weeks: MB and Jessie's high school friend, H...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:50:00 GMT

Good writing skills?

I'm in the process of applying for a job at a foundation that funds documentary films.  It's a part-time job that pays better than my current full-time temp assignment, which would enable me to open...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:54:00 GMT

Fetch! Fan-fic?

Well not really, but I recently signed up to be a docent for WGBH, which involves and eight-week training class.  My first homework assignment was to watch an episode of Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman and e...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:51:00 GMT

Practice using Photoshop

Last week was a little slow, temporary-job-wise, so I decided to use some ofthe programs I actually bought specifically for this computer (I boughtAdobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Elements because I...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:43:00 GMT

I was in a movie

I'll probably be writing a story about this experience in the near future.
Posted by on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:05:00 GMT

Wave of the future

I've had CNN on for most of the weekend; I've wished that Inauguration Day fell on Martin Luther King Day, not only for the symbolism, but for the more selfish reason that I could witness history, unf...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:45:00 GMT

A long way to go

The confetti has been swept up and the tears of joy have been wiped from the faces of loved ones.  But we have a long way to go.  In last night's other big election news California approved ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:31:00 GMT

Someone I picked before the primaries won the presidency!

Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States.  This is the third presidential election I've voted in and this is the first time that my pick in the primaries not only won his nomi...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:13:00 GMT

How Im voting today

The following is a list of candidates, propositions, and measures I'm voting for in today's election.  These are for my district in Los Angeles, CA.  It's partly a note to myself, but a...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:10:00 GMT

Creepy Halloween Things

I hadn't really thought to do anything for Halloween this year and then my office said that we could wear costumes (nobody wore any last year, but I dressed as I normally do using my laptop bag as my ...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:11:00 GMT