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What is a Pictoid?
A Pictoid is a picture with an interesting fact about Asian America.  The Pictoid comes out every month (or whenever I get off my lazy @$$) and serves as the cover picture for Asian Underground.  The Pictoid archive is below.
December 2006
Boardmunky and Chungli on their wedding day.
Pictoid: Asian Americans have a higher marriage rate and lower divorce rate than
the average American. (pobronson.com/factbook)
February 2007
Sushi Explosion
Pictoid: Sushi sales have tripled over the last five years making Japanese cuisine America's third favorite. (The Sushification of America/ajc.com)
March 2007
Fearless
Pictoid: 10 of the top 15 grossing foreign films of 2006 were Asian movies.  Jet Li's Fearless ranked #2 with $24.6 million.  (boxofficeguru.com)
April 2007
Ahn Trio

Pictoid: The Ahn Trio continues to emerge as one of the world's most popular classical artists.  "Playing such as this would make stars of the Ahns if they were three ugly men." (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/ahntrio.com)
May 2007 - May 2008
The Dark Period
Pictoid: Asian Underground goes dark as Boardmunky and Chungli find themselves knee deep in the busyness of modern life.  Weak!  I know.
June 2008
Beijing Olympics 2008
Pictoid: In 1988, the Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea helped tranform the
nation into a thriving global economic partner.  How will the Olympics affect
China this summer?  (en.beijing2008.cn)
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