Dragon Lady

She was freighted.

And the lamp counter on the floor above, busily adding up receipts as if nothing had happened, was a dark title built along Dragon Lady lines.

I'm very sorry, sir, but we're closed.

I want to know

You just don't run into a dame at the lamp counter in Lacey's and a half hour later in a dumpy neighborhood in the Mission unless she wants it that way.

Well, hello.

Hello, dragon lady.

Hello.

Yeah, yeah.

Or the Dragon Lady.

That was such an informative part to the pop culture we grew up with.

And I think it did... kind of like you know solidifying a lot of like asian american guys thinking about pop culture but to your point i think it's a different time now right because you and i had no asian american male like leading men you know as as templates for like how to behave or how to act right and now it's like it's it's weirdly like not that case anymore because there are Asian-American male sex symbols.

When I looked closer, I saw she wasn't a passenger, she was freight.

At the lamp counter on the floor above, bus- busily adding up receipts as if nothing had happened, was a dark type built along dragon lady lines.

I'm very sorry, sir, but we're closed.

Thank you, sir.

You just don't run into a dame at the lamp counter in Lacy's and a half-hour later in a dumpy neighborhood in the Mission unless she wants it that way.

Well, hello.

Hello, dragon lady.

[laughs] Sillies.

She was freighted.

At the lamp counter on the floor above, busily adding up receipts as if nothing had happened, was a dark type built along Dragon Lady lines.

I'm

very sorry, sir, but we closed.

You just don't run into a dame at the lamp counter in Lacey's and a half hour later in a dumpy neighborhood in the Mission unless she wants it that way.

Well, hello.

Hello, dragon lady.

Oh, Phyllis.

...

Dragon Ladies.

[laughs]

Sometimes they will come up in YouTube Shorts or Instagram Reels.

Oh, yeah.

And a lot of-

Outdoor billboards, like Li Duohui everywhere, and I'm like, "Oh, gosh, how many more Dragon Ladies do we need?"

[laughs]