Here’s another jewel from the Hunterfly Road Publishing vault. This one also made it into the book, “Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist”, as part of chapter 5. I’ve included this post in the series not so much because of the comments it generated at the time (though I have included them), but because [...]
Here’s another jewel from the Hunterfly Road Publishing vault. However this one did make it into the book, “Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist”, as part of chapter 3. I’ve included this post in the series mostly because of the comments it generated at the time. It was one of the more [...]
Here’s another jewel from the Hunterfly Road Publishing vault, the second of several lost chapters of “Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist” Here we have the continuation from Part 1: Orenthal. Click here for part 1 of the Lost Chapters As I said before, while I am in the process of editing [...]
As they say in the reggae world: ***Special Request and by Popular Demand*** Direct from the Hunterfly Road Publishing editing room floor (edited for length, not quality, of course) I bring you the first of several long (not really) lost chapters of “Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist” As readers well know, portions of the [...]
The following is an interview I did with Ashley over at Surviving in Japan almost exactly a year ago. It’s one of my favorites so I thought I’d share it with you guys. Enjoy! Today I’m thrilled to introduce to you Baye McNeil, also known as “Loco,” of the popular blog, Loco in Yokohama. [...]
Over the course of my seven years here I have modified again and again the extent to which I’ll allow myself to be affected by what’s going on around me. By that I mean the behavior of Japanese people. I’m reminded of a scene from a very funny movie by one of my favorite film writers- Cameron [...]
I was reading through my post from a year ago and came across a comment I wrote in response to a reader’s comment. I had written the post in response to a Japanese reader’s advice as to how I should respond to Japanese people who avoid me out of fear of me. My response was [...]
There’s an ongoing furor over a Japanese McDonald’s ad campaign featuring a white flunky japanophile who can’t manage to get nihongo (spoken or written) through his thick foreign skull…reinforcing this and other negative stereotypes about white foreigners, as if they needed reinforcing… Mr. Debito even compared Mr. James to Stepin Fechit. I don’t know about that. I thought it was ironic, [...]
Reason2Write,the founder and creative genius behind one of my favorite blogs has gone ahead and given me a reason to write. (-; She has tasked me to think of alternative explanations for why SOME Japanese people behave the way they do towards me. Racism, and its virtually identical twin sister, xenophobia, as well as other forms of negativity, are not allowed. I must [...]
I woke up to my chirping cell phone alarm at 6:30 feeling well rested. The crows were cawing, the bluebirds were whistling and Aiko was typing in the next room. “Ohayou,” I groaned, feeling a slight twinge in my back. I’d played basketball the day before at the gym, and though I don’t look [...]
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