English twitter: @kidethnic
KID ETHNIC IS WRITTEN BY:
saleem reshamwla
who is fresh of the boat (that circled the globe).
He makes crazy stuff:
Zombie Rap Videos, Truly Strange Geographic Education Flicks, Micro-Documentaries About Chinese Cell Phone Markets...kidethnic@gmail.com
日本語のtwitter: @masalasoccer
ALSO BY KID ETHNIC:
The Alpaca Song
I wrote and recorded this for you. Because you <em>need</em> a song about alpacas, don’t you?
100JapaneseThings
A collaborative site to help folks (and each other) find Japanese stuff.
Twitter
I twitter infrequently. But hope we can stay friends.
The Whiteboard Videos
Music+Whiteboard Markers+Friends=Good ways to spend weekends
SEAWEED BREAKFAST
A collection of stories about Japan written while part of the National Geographic Glimpse Correspondents' Training Program.
The Annual Kid Ethnic Valentine
Because I love you so much.
Ornery White Guy and the Tokyo Capsule Hotel · 7 April 05
Early one Sunday morning, someone grabs your toe. You sit up and look down the length of your sleeping pod.
Who’s grabbing your toe?
Why, it’s Ornery White Guy.
‘Aw, man, Ornery White Guy, why’d ya have to grab my toe? What time is it anyway? Ooh, I know, I’ll check my watch!’
You lift your left arm toward your capsule’s ceiling. But:
Oh, that’s right. You replaced your watch with a plastic band that identifies your capsule number and holds your capsule key.
Capsule key, capsule number… Where are you again? Ah, yes. The Century Capsule Hotel and Sauna of Tokyo’s Ueno district, where you pay $36 bucks a night for a clean robe and towel combo, entrance to a public bath (no cameras allowed) and a slot in a radioactive man-size bee’s dream home.
It’s just you and a bunch of old, half-drunk salarymen. And some ornery white guy.
But don’t let that get you down. There’s enough room for you to sit up and smile. Trust me.
You can still be happy here.
FOOTNOTE: Why, you may ask, is that particular white guy so ornery? Well, maybe it’s because he’s about 6’1”. And the capsule’s about 6’2”.
Which, given the need for a pillow, leaves not so much room for stretching out. Be warned.
And, incidentally, means he might be likely to roll into the side of his capsule rather suddenly, occasionally startling the tan encapsulated gentleman in the capsule to his right.
(Details on the Century Capsule Hotel can be found in this extremely sketchy guide to Tokyo’s weird/darkside. A hilarious, useful, and not so family-friendly read.)
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— another envious Protestant 2495 days ago #
Keep grabbing those piggies Poo.
— Roo 2494 days ago #
— The Ferg 2494 days ago #
Its scary just how excited the “peace” guy looks.
— Glen 2494 days ago #
Recommendations;
sell kidethnic merchandise featuring the sketch and banner from your home page.
Also, have a shave and grow the hair back. I know having long hair is troublesome and can get boring, but remember the crap stage u go through every time u grow it back!
— Glen 2493 days ago #
— maggie 2493 days ago #
— ayman 2493 days ago #
I destroyed the original Kid Ethnic banner immediately after scanning it. Because of, um, I dunno, artistic, um, conflagritegritation. Yeah, that’s it, artistic conflagritegritation.
Gotta stay true to stay true to artistic conflagritegritation.
The little rolled door is all the security one gets, Ayman. No worries, though. Your hotel-mates are mostly too worn out to wake up and bother ya.
ANP: I think you do know that guy. Maggie, I'll see if I can find some more pics for ya. Alas, Roo, El Poo has left. Ferg, looks like you’ll just have to foreignify yourself if you’d like to say hello.
Your friend,
— saleem 2490 days ago #
Dunno if I can grow the hair back. Shaving it off makes life so… easy.
— saleem 2490 days ago #
— andy 2490 days ago #
Check out savetoby.com its one of the best marketing ideas i’ve come across. The owner of the site is selling merchandise through a company called cafepress or something similar. I bought a t-shirt on novelty value alone and think that i’d have to get a whole heap of kidethnic stuff if you end up doing anything.
Maybe a business plan where i take care of all the merchandising for you? Say 50%? Just playing. Have a look, it’d be wicked to walk down the street and see people wearing a kidethnic baseball cap!
— Glen 2490 days ago #
— Sarah Ferg 2487 days ago #