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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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