12-04-2020, 01:48 PM
I spent the evening with Rosie Perez. Srsly.
She was in the celebratory circle of Shi Yanming, the Shaolin monk that's with Wu-Tang Clan. Yanming hired me to write cover stories on him for KFTC and IKF back when I was freelance. He flew me out to NYC, lodged me with one of his students, and took care of me for a week. I trained with his school and we partied with various celebs, ate at great Manhattan restaurants, and even went to the Met (with Michelle Forbes - Ensign Ro from Star Trek).
My meeting with Rosie was odd. We had gone to some hip hop happening and wound up at someone's apartment. This was the late 90s and I only knew her marginally from Fearless mostly. Yanming's sig0 & manager got us some alone time, but she kind of sprang it on me suddenly so I was unprepared (and tired and drunk). We chatted a bit but I didn't have the wherewithal to do an interview (we were training and partying every night, training, and I was also writing those two cover stories, and y'all know how exhausting NYC can be). Rosie gave me a folder of material but it didn't have a contact and I never followed up, although I thought about it many times because that folder sat in my files for years (might have even still been there when KFTC closed). We never crossed paths again.
Rosie was exactly like she appears. She had that outrageous accent and was super hot. I remember Yanming was into eating raw garlic back then as a therapeutic. He convinced her to try one that night and that was quite funny. I can't remember much more about that gathering. Rosie was nice tho - friendly and open - but her breath...
She was in the celebratory circle of Shi Yanming, the Shaolin monk that's with Wu-Tang Clan. Yanming hired me to write cover stories on him for KFTC and IKF back when I was freelance. He flew me out to NYC, lodged me with one of his students, and took care of me for a week. I trained with his school and we partied with various celebs, ate at great Manhattan restaurants, and even went to the Met (with Michelle Forbes - Ensign Ro from Star Trek).
My meeting with Rosie was odd. We had gone to some hip hop happening and wound up at someone's apartment. This was the late 90s and I only knew her marginally from Fearless mostly. Yanming's sig0 & manager got us some alone time, but she kind of sprang it on me suddenly so I was unprepared (and tired and drunk). We chatted a bit but I didn't have the wherewithal to do an interview (we were training and partying every night, training, and I was also writing those two cover stories, and y'all know how exhausting NYC can be). Rosie gave me a folder of material but it didn't have a contact and I never followed up, although I thought about it many times because that folder sat in my files for years (might have even still been there when KFTC closed). We never crossed paths again.
Rosie was exactly like she appears. She had that outrageous accent and was super hot. I remember Yanming was into eating raw garlic back then as a therapeutic. He convinced her to try one that night and that was quite funny. I can't remember much more about that gathering. Rosie was nice tho - friendly and open - but her breath...
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