Loco in Yokohama

…and highly controversial apparently. I don’t know why…I think it’s adorable. Compared to some of the things I hear my students are doing, this is tame as a poodle. They should have waited for the Sakura and did it beneath a blossoming cherry blossom tree. Now that would have been perfect. Loco       [...]

I do something really sadomasochistic to myself. What I do is, I punish myself for not doing what my mind and body knows it ought to do, which is quit smoking. How do I do it you wanna know? What is this sick, twisted S&M thing I do to myself? No whips, no chains, or [...]

I thought this was long gone… When I changed banners and my web address back in 201o, I had all the old links forwarded to the new self-hosted blog. After that, I realized that I could no longer see the old manifestation of LIY. Somehow, though, this single page is still floating around out there. Not sure [...]

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 [...]

First a couple of videos people have shot showing this phenomenon.       Now, this: SMH I like the fact that she finds it problematic to assume racism whenever the empty seat is encountered. People who have read my book and blog know that I concur. However, I don’t think pulling a number like [...]

Once upon a time, in my lifetime, Blacks and Yellows, the Blank Panthers and the Yellow Peril, understood something; something that united them, that galvanized them to a unified struggle, to achieve progress or die trying. They’d established that despite any overemphasized cosmetic differences, any cultural or racial but ultimately superficial obstacles, they had a [...]

Manhattan, and the other 3 boroughs of New York City, I could take or leave. But I ♥ Brooklyn… I spent the better part of my life there, and learned a great deal about who I am in that amazing community.   …and more importantly, I loved ME in Brooklyn!   After thirty years of [...]

So, last night, I was out in Yokohama stalking random Japanese people  using my fearsome physique and menacing mien to threaten them with bodily harm or worse…actually I was headed to my friend’s house to watch season 1 of “The Wire” on Hulu, but here in Japan, one of the safest countries in the world, the [...]

I’ve grown quite passionate with my street photography. It’s one of the few things I look forward to every day in Japan. I tend to shoot the everyday things I see, so my photographs seem, at a glance, to be repetitive. But, unlike people, to me, each photograph is, indeed, a unique and special snowflake. [...]

So, I’m at this black networking function (little to my knowledge, I hadn’t gone there to network as such) in Tokyo, when a Japanese woman walks up to me and hands me this flyer. I gave it a once over, during which my insides clenched up, looked her in the eye to see if she [...]