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19 years ago
USD Magazine » Behind the Velvet Rope
19 years ago
First Time I’ve Ever Been Referred to as a “Chicks Magnet”
J. Freedom du Lac writes a great article on my blogging duties: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800986.html Side note: This article sparked up an interesting discussion about WaPo’s standards, as they ended up cutting “Man Ass” — my nickname on this tour, short for “Management Assistant” — from …
20 years ago
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH: Tom Cruise and the Historical Accuracy of The Last Samurai
As an American of Japanese descent, I am an expert on all things Japanese. Admittedly, I’ve spent little time in Japan, I can’t read the language, and I’ve never studied anything relating to – or rhyming with – Japan. Nonetheless, I satisfy the two …
20 years ago
Shelter
for Dima We are the children of bombs of broken glass & shrapnel shadows My mother records her first memory Japanese porcelain dolls arranged like soldiers in kimonos torpedo to the tatami mat shatter like bullet shells as American B-29s carpet bomb …
22 years ago
Remembering June Jordan
June Jordan was the most amazing teacher. Ever. Period. Yet, despite being one of the many fortunate students she transformed into a poet, I can’t seem to conjure up a metaphor that truly captures her. No twister, tsunami, or tidal wave illustrates the force …
24 years ago
My Reality TV Show Audition
In autumn 2000, while clerking for Judge Browning on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, I received an email from Stanford Law School alumni services letting us Class of ’99 alums know about a new TV show that a company called Renegade 83 Entertainment …
29 years ago
Why The World Wants More Astrologists Than Economists
(adapted from my 1996 commencement speech to the Economics Department at U.C. Berkeley) My fellow graduates in economics, today we face the terrifying discomfort of not being students any longer. Upon receiving our diplomas, many of us switch from the statuts of student …