I’ve been pretty busy lately and haven’t had quite as much time to post as I’d like. But I’ve been working on several things and here’s what you can expect from this blog in the near future: Japan-related book reviews! More Japanese film reviews! Several essays about modern Japan and Japanese history, woo-hoo! Several JET-related [...]
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A very busy few weeks…
Posted in Ramblings, tagged constantine in tokyo, constantineintokyo on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
True Beauty: America According to Reality Television
Posted in Ramblings, tagged american TV, constantine in tokyo, constantineintokyo, gossip girl, reality television, reality TV, true beauty, TV on June 1, 2010 | 17 Comments »
As I’ve mentioned before, last school year the Korean foreign exchange student would visit my desk at least once a week to practice her English conversation (which was exponentially greater than the English abilities of the Japanese students). What this really meant is that every week for one or two hours I had to talk [...]
Tattoonomics: The Motivation Behind Getting a Unicorn Humping a Dolphin Tattooed on Your Ass
Posted in Ramblings, tagged constantine in tokyo, constantineintokyo, tattoo, tattoonomics, tattoos on May 29, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I recently read the article posted by Steven D. Levitt (author of Freakonomics) on his New York Time’s blog. Entitled Tattoonomics, Part I (presumably there will be a Part II), Levitt raises the question, “Why get a tattoo?” I have tattoos and I get asked this question all the time. I fondly remember getting caught [...]
Racism in Japan
Posted in Japan, Japanese Culture, Ramblings, tagged constantine in tokyo, constantineintokyo, Japan, life in Japan, racism on May 10, 2010 | 21 Comments »
As a part of the ‘Japan YouTube community’(though somewhat reluctantly) I’ve encountered a lot of the videos that people have posted about racism in Japan. I don’t really agree or approve of a lot of these videos, because they are almost always very negative and extremely one-sided. Personally, I haven’t experienced much racism while living [...]
C’est la vie Golden Week
Posted in Japan, JET Program, Ramblings on May 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Golden Week is over and so is Constantine’s Crazy Japan Traveling Extravaganza: Part Two. I now have more raw video footage to add to my already enormous backlog of videos that I need to edit together and post on YouTube. The editing will be slapdash and half-thought-out, as usual. =P So this upcoming month will [...]
Back to the Volcano Island
Posted in Ramblings, tagged constantine in tokyo, nonstoptotokyo on April 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Still trying to get rid of the last remnants of the cold that I caught while traveling with my father these last few weeks, I had a funny moment where I emerged from my apartment and was completely shocked to discover that not only is it sunny today but it is also freaking WARM. Granted, [...]
Oh really?
Posted in Ramblings on April 5, 2010 | 7 Comments »
On the WordPress Stats page you can look at the search engine terms that people used to find your site. Here is a partial screenshot of mine: Hmmm, I had no idea! Seriously, internet, you never cease to amuse me. Thanks for the laugh and a new running joke for me to throw around when [...]
Where ya’been, yo?
Posted in Ramblings on March 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Wondering why I haven’t been posting anything? It’s because I’ve been traveling around Japan for the past two weeks. This means no posting right now, but many many posts to come soon! If you really can’t wait to see what I am doing with my time, then meander over to my Twitter…I post photos on [...]
And now for a brief moment of indulgent self-reflection…
Posted in Ramblings, tagged constantineintokyo, Ramblings on March 8, 2010 | 24 Comments »
I believe that the most difficult truth we must accept in our lives is that everything – the world, people, ourselves – changes. It seems redundant to state such a fact because of its obvious truth. Of course everything changes. Yet, like most important truths, the inevitability of change is both very easy to acknowledge [...]
Arisia Con ’09
Posted in Ramblings, tagged arisia con, blade runner, pris on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hide and I briefly stopped by Arisia ’09 and I cosplayed my Pris outfit. For those of you who don’t know, yes, I’ve been known to cosplay from time-to-time. It feeds into my love of dressing up in strange clothing. It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a con/cosplayed, and I’m really happy [...]
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