the elektrik zoo


a creative partnership: films, photographs, writings
"the world is a zoo, and we aim to elektrify it"

works published...........

columns

“Healthy Bytes,” FEW Review (monthly), 1999-2000
“Alternatives,” Metropolis (bi-weekly), 1999-2000
“Jobfinder,” Metropolis (bi-weekly), 1999-2000
“Date Lines,” Tokyo Journal (monthly), 1999
“Money Matters,” Tokyo Journal (monthly), 1998-1999
“Broads on the Web,” Being A Broad (monthly), 1998

features

"Wherever I lay my Hat," The Guardian (G2) August 2008
"Homecoming," The Guardian (Family Section) 10 March 2007
“Blood is Thicker than Floodwater,” The Guardian (Family Section), 28 August 2006
“Emotional Suicide,” Tokyo Journal, February 1999
“Friendship,” Being A Broad, September 1998
“Part-time Entrepreneurs,” Being A Broad, November 1998

articles

“Just Like Heaven,” The Guardian, April 2006
“Big Apple Films in the Big Mikan,” Tokyo Journal, March 1999
“On a Shoestring: Budget Traveling on the Web,” Tokyo Y.Y. August 1999
“Film Buffs Indulge Yourselves on the Net,” Tokyo Y.Y. September 1999
“Food, Glorious Food,” Tokyo Y.Y., November 1999
“Bound to Please,” Being A Broad, September 1998
“Paula Terry – She Will Survive,” Being A Broad, August 1998
“The Wa of Weight Training,” Traffic, January 1995
“Foreign Rice Declared National Disaster,” Traffic, March 1995
“Please Study!” Traffic, June/July 1994

interviews

“One Woman in Japan: May Leong,” Being A Broad, April 1998
“The Men of Being A Broad,” Being A Broad, September 1998
“ One Woman in Japan: Nobuko Muromatsu,” Being A Broad, October 1998
“In the Spotlight: Shoichi Kaku,” Traffic, September 1994

published poetry

“My Grand Mistake,” The Abiko Quarterly, Winter/Spring 2001
“Tsunami,” The Abiko Quarterly, Winter/Spring 2000
“The Fourth Sin,” The Abiko Quarterly, Winter/Srping 2000
“My Response to your accusation of throwing away a bowl of Tapioca Pudding,”
Traffic, December 1994
“Battle with Big Asian Roach,” “Red Beans and Rice”, 1989

essays

“American Mythology and Michael Herr’s ‘Dispatches,’”
Kita-Kyushu University Press, June 1995
“The Heroic Nature of Satan in John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost,’”
Kita-Kyushu University Press, March 1995
“’Desire and Domestic Fiction’ and Miss Sidney Bidulph,”
Kita-Kyushu University Press, June 1995

books

“No Mickey Mouse Courses in America,” Yamaga Publishing, 2000
“Story Truths,” Kita-Kyushu University Press, 1995

sites & blogs

Chief Poet: JosephNils

City Life Columnist: Examiner.com

Senior Blogger: The London Met Blog
“A Hyper-Local City Guide to London”
Published by Bode Media, Inc.

Creator and author of “Story Truths”
“Creative Digital Story Telling”

Creator and author of “Tokyo Cowboys Journal”
Production Journal for feature documentary “Tokyo Cowboys”

Creator of “Tokyo Cowboys” Online
Official Website of the feature documentary “Tokyo Cowboys" (now defunct)

Creator of “Elektrik Zoo” Online
Official Website of The Elektrik Zoo: a creative partnership

Created and contributed to “Healthy Bytes”
“The English-Language e-zine for health information in Japan”

produced scripts

My Beautiful Reward
This is What it Feels Like
Thicker than Water
Batman and Roslyn
Cassandra



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