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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Shima 3

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Another photo.

Shima 2

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More from Christmas 2007.

Violinist Yumi Miyagishima (Shima)

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This is a bit of a late entry but I spent Christmas at a small pub in Mitaka, where Shima played violin with a singer, pianist, bassist, gui...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Is Krispy Kreme cool?

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Photographer/visual artist Annette Dorfman from San Francisco is so impressed Japanese will line up for a product sitting around in the froz...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Poem reworked: Little YELLOW Slut

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UPDATED with hula dancer: How could I forget this important fetish image: flight attendant. And so here goes again: Little YELLOW Slut You k...
Sunday, December 9, 2007

Taiko and Tap

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Amanojaku collaborated with the tap dancers of Takeshi Kitano's "Zatoichi" fame. Their performance delivered a deliciously u...
Friday, December 7, 2007

Film festival for cell phones

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No movie theaters needed for this film festival.
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Yuri Kageyama
Poet, writer in Tokyo. "The New and Selected Yuri _ Writing From Peeling till Now" Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. 2011. "Peeling" I. Reed Press. Poems, stories, essays in "Y'Bird" "Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience _ Short Fiction from Then to Now" "San Francisco Stories" "On a Bed of Rice" "Konch" "Breaking Silence" "Greenfield Review" "Beyond Rice" "River Styx" "Other Side River" "Yellow Silk" "Stories We Hold Secret" "MultiAmerica" and other publications. Read with Ishmael Reed, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Geraldine Kudaka, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Russel Baba, Seamus Heaney, Shozu Ben, Winchester Nii Tete, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Takenari Shibata, Toshinori Takimoto, Teruyuki and Haruna Kawabata, Keiji Kubo, Yumi Miyagishima, Carl Freire, Abel Coelho, Yuri Matsueda. "Talking TAIKO" a film by Yoshiaki Tago documents her poetry. "A Back Alley Asian American Love Story of Sorts" by Niccolo Caldararo of her story was shown at the San Francisco and New York Asian American film festivals, won awards at the 1986 Palo Alto Film Festival, 1987 Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1988 Onion City Film Festival. Magna cum laude Cornell University, M.A. the University of California Berkeley.
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