Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 23, 2023 Dear Gossips, Beyoncé’s new IVY PARK drop is called Park Trail. What I like about it is that orange features prominently. And if we’re talking about orange, well, right now there’s no better celebrity to rep orange than Ice Spice. She has the freshest look of the By Lainey • Feb 23, 2023 09:30 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for January 19, 2023 Dear Gossips, Thousands of years ago, the Jade Emperor ordered twelve animals to come to the palace for the Great Race, declaring that the order of the Chinese Zodiac would be determined by when each animal arrived. The Rabbit took off earliest, right at daybreak, scampering happily through the woods By Lainey • Jan 19, 2023 10:02 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for August 9, 2022 Dear Gossips, If you have a Chinese mother, has she been scaring the sh-t out of you lately? Yesterday I mentioned that August 8 was the luckiest day of the year…but at the same time, in Chinese culture, it’s also the most haunted month of the year. Literally By Lainey • Aug 09, 2022 09:53 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 1, 2022 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! You ready for Big Tiger Energy? In Chinese astrology, the Tiger is known as the king of all beasts, the animal who thought it would win easily when centuries ago, the Jade Emperor summoned twelve animals to the palace in what’s known as the By Lainey • Feb 01, 2022 08:51 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for January 31, 2022 Dear Gossips, It’s Lunar New Year’s Eve! At my house, and my parents’, we’ve been prepping for Lunar New Year for a couple of weeks. We’ve been cleaning for days. I spent a few hours yesterday packing up several boxes to either throw out or give By Lainey • Jan 31, 2022 08:59 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for January 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, Lunar New Year is exactly a week away, on Tuesday, February 1, so for those of us who observe it, this is your heads up. And for those of you who’ve been visiting this site over the years, a quick reminder about the pre-Lunar New Year tasks By Lainey • Jan 25, 2022 09:06 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for May 10, 2021 Dear Gossips, Really loved Saturday Night Live’s Mother’s Day cold open this weekend. Miley Cyrus opened on stage singing her godmother Dolly Parton’s song “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” and gradually the camera cut to the cast members reunited with their mothers and of course we By Lainey • May 10, 2021 08:43 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 12, 2021 Dear Gossips, GUNG HAY FAT CHOY! The Year of the Ox has arrived! If you’ve been a regular visitor here over the years, you may remember that my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, provided annual Chinese Zodiac advisories for each of the 12 signs leading up to Lunar New By Lainey • Feb 12, 2021 10:06 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 11, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS has been pretty quiet the last few weeks. Not entirely off the grid, and still releasing treats for their fans, but in terms of major announcements that get circulated beyond ARMY awareness, it’s been pretty low-key. This week though, ahead of Lunar New Year, there is By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 08:56 am
Equality Issues Intro for February 9, 2021 Dear Gossips, Just three more sleeps until Lunar New Year and the Year of the Ox, beginning on Friday, February 12. My ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, will have some thoughts to share in the coming days. They won’t be as extensive as they were in years past, but By Lainey • Feb 09, 2021 08:58 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, Lunar New Year is ten days from now, on Friday, February 12. It will be the Year of the Ox. My ma has some thoughts on this in the days to come but since so many of us are in lockdown and some things require more planning and By Lainey • Feb 02, 2021 09:37 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for September 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, Every year on my birthday I am expected to call my ma to thank her for my birthday. On my birthday we celebrate her. This year, however, my parents had us over to their place and she ordered in all my favourite dimsum selections and even got me By Lainey • Sep 28, 2020 09:19 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for June 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, Netflix released the first trailer for a new animated film called Over The Moon. The film is inspired by Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival or Harvest Moon Festival or what I like to call Chinese Thanksgiving. Many of our cultural holidays originate from mythology. The myth closely By Lainey • Jun 25, 2020 09:22 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for January 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, GUNG HAY FAT CHOY! Today is Lunar New Year’s Eve. Tomorrow begins the Year of the Rat! The Rat is the first sign in the Chinese zodiac which means that we are entering a new twelve year cycle on the Chinese astrological dial. And that seems fitting By Lainey • Jan 24, 2020 09:38 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for January 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, Saturday is Lunar New Year. If you’ve been visiting this website over the years, you may be familiar with our annual Lunar New Year tradition: my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, passes on to me to pass on to you astrological readings for each of the twelve By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 08:50 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Miss Tina “annoys” her Beyoncé Beyoncé is known for locking things down, the ultimate control freak. With one exception: her ma, Miss Tina Lawson. As we’ve seen through the years, on Instagram really, Miss Tina does what she wants– because she hasn’t signed an NDA and likely doesn’t have to clear sh-t By Lainey • Jun 27, 2019 10:32 am
