NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog

OK, I’m feeling sheepish about admitting this. But I signed up this week for a lifetime membership … to get my shoes shined by Claude, the King of Shoes.
I’ve seen Claude for years. In fact, he’s plied his trade on the corners of Denver’s downtown 16th Street Mall for nine years. A few weeks ago, [...]

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I don’t watch “American Idol” (”Dancing with the Stars” is enough reality TV for me), but I’ve been mildly curious about this 17-year-old kid, Sanjaya Malakar, who managed to squeak through week after week of elimination on “AI” with his breathy singing voice, toothy grin and bizarre variety of hairstyles.
Well, he finally got voted off [...]

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It’s silly, and I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, but Erin and I are addicted to “Dancing with the Stars” this season. We hadn’t watched it at all in the past, but began tuning in because 1) it began during the down time for new episodes of “Heroes” on Monday nights and 2) it [...]

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Seen recently on a bumper ahead of me on a late-night trip to the Taco Bell drive-though (OK, so you know a little bit about my lousy eating habits):
“I’d rather eat shit than ride a Jap bike!” with an American flag next to the text.
This was on a Toyota pickup truck.

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There’s a fascinating discussion going around in the e-mail list for New York chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. It began the day that news of the Virginia Tech shootings broke, when the media first reported that the shooter may be Asian. Since then, various perspectives have been shared about whether it was journalistically [...]

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I started a fulltime job in February, working for Examiner.com as Director of Content. And it’s kept me from blogging.

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