NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog

Every day’s bus ride from the Westminster Park and Ride is like listening to the weirdest radio station imaginable — a lot weirder than even the heyday of “underground” radio of the late ’60s and early ’70s.
And every ride, I hear gems out of the 10,064 tracks on my 40GB 4G iPod that make [...]

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11:00 a.m.
Here I sit in my rental car, mere yards from the water. I’m waiting for the Bainbridge Island Ferry in Seattle — I missed the last one by just seconds and the next one leaves in an hour.
Bainbridge Island is the place captured poetically in the book and movie, “Snow Falling on Cedars” (which [...]

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Sometimes, you just gotta have comfort food — you know, meat loaf, mac and cheese, a nice chicken fried steak. Real mashed potatoes, not the just-add-water kind. And when it comes to comfort food, you can’t beat a great diner.
So I welcomed my lunch date today at the Rocky Mountain Diner, even though it’s a [...]

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I just heard one of the most gawdawful songs of the rock and roll era — or any era, for that matter — on CNN.
I was working away, and the TV outside my office door started playing Joe Cocker’s 1973 Top 40 hit, “You Are So Beautiful.” The sound stopped me cold, and I got [...]

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I never got the attraction of cigarette smokers who roll their own smokes. Looks like a pain in the butt to me — har, I made a punny!
But then, I never got the attraction of cigarette smoking anyway.
But these days I’m into “rolling my own” when it comes to tea… green tea, that is.

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