NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog

Bits of pop culture, media and politics from a Japanese American’s perspective by Gil Asakawa

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Entries from August 2008

How do you like the new look of the blog?

March 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I was having problems with my Nikkeiview “theme” template, so I tested out some new WordPress looks.
I like this theme, called “Cutline.” What do you think? I’ll leave it up for a while, and who knows, after some customizing, I may keep it. I’ll need to swap out the photo images with my own images, [...]

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Dahn Yoga’s hardsell is a turnoff

March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

For Christmas, I bought Erin a pass for 10 visits to Dahn Yoga, an international chain of yoga schools founded in Korea in the 1970s that has several locations in the Denver area. One is close by, and Erin was interested in taking yoga, so I walked in. I left with the gift certificate for [...]

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Cambodian pop meets psychedelic rock in Dengue Fever, coming to Denver

March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Around the turn of the century (man, it’s still weird to use that phrase in 2008), I started reading about a bootlegged series of cassettes making the rounds, of Cambodian rock and soul recordings from before that country’s dark, post-Vietnam war years under despot Pol Pot. These recordings, I read, were all that were left, [...]

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Tags: asian american · music · pop culture