Kenneth Eng Around The Web
Update as of 10 a.m. 3/2/07: new link found in our quest to collect all the entertaining Kenneth Eng links on the Internet after the jump! This one quotes Maya Angelou!
Also: why did the Chronicle's editorial page call him "Richard" Eng in the hard copy of the paper (corrected online)? At least Bad Reporter got Eng's name right.
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Okay, okay, we know we just put up a post about the Asianweek situation, but the more we google this Kenneth Eng guy, the more we want to know!!!!!
Okay, so we know he hates African-Americans (.pdf) and that he's obsessed with dragons. But there's more!
In light of our reader's tip from yesterday that Kenneth Eng refers to stuffed animals as "plushies," SFist MattyMatt and your correspondent have been avidly scouring through Google to find out if Kenneth Eng takes his plushie love all the way. SFist MattyMatt scored big when he found this PR news release (a must read for many reasons), where Eng is described as "an ardent furry fanatic [who] specializes in creating anthropomorphic literature and art." NO!!! Readers, can you help us on this quest to find Eng plushie proof? Get Googling, googlers! SFist MattyMatt suggests starting your search at deviantart.com or furaffinity.net.
Another reader sent along a link to Eng's Amazon blog, entitled "Kenneth Eng, God." If you want to see Eng's thoughts on organized religion, that's the place to go. Also, here's an article where he outlines yet another fight he got into about race at NYU (and where he says Hitler was "not a coward"). Warning: this is possibly the worst background pattern to pick for your website, ever.
And -- like a certain former press secretary we know -- Eng seems to have originally made his fame when he got busted (see Patrick M's post) spamming various sci-fi boards under fake names promoting that lame-looking dragon book he wrote. He also paid for a promotional ad for the book on Animal Planet. Some of these customer reviews of his book on Amazon look a little funny too, if you ask us. John Nelson, your thoughts?
After the jump -- MattyMatt's Google results! Send us yours and we'll include them too.
--Kenneth Eng's Geocities page, featuring his "Yellow Skull Society." Check out the futile attempts to reason with Eng on the Asians Inc. forums too (registration required).
--MattyMatt came so close to finding the furry stuff, but it's all offline now. So close!
--Here's a handy-dandy plot breakdown of Dragons: Lexicon Triumverate.
--More Ragone-style busting of Eng's sock puppetry (warning -- website is extremely difficult to read). Also, there's some excellent mockery of the quality of the prose in Dragons Lexicon Triumverate.
--A hilarious story about Eng's run-in with a comic book publisher. Annalee Newitz covers this for Wired too.
--Here's Kenneth Eng's thoughts on "why comics are superior to novels." Here's our favorite part:
Maya Angelou's writing is nothing more than a rant on race and politics. These topics are of no significance compared to the topics of reality, spacetime and causation discussed in The Matrix movies and comics by the great Larry and Andy Wachowski.