Staff Blog
Former City Paper intern Jimmy Viola invades Japanese television
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
posted by Drew Lazor
categories CP Abroad
CP editorial interns always go on to do great things, but I'm pretty sure Jimmy Viola is the first to land on foreign TV. Temple student Jimmy, currently studying abroad in the Land of the Rising Sun, did some good work for CP last year. Here he is on a Tokyo MX network program, pitching himself as a potential beau to the ladies of Japan. ("Super gaijin" basically translates to "ridiculous foreigner.")
Is that Jeremy Sisto in the beginning?
Jimmy's blogging about his trip here.
And I’m still here. Goddamn. I look *great* in giant red eye-things.
[...] meant to ““expose the ridiculous spectacle the Japanese Media is.” The Philly City Paper has a story up about his TV [...]
Just ran across this on a Japanese blog. “Super gaijin” is not translated as “ridiculous foreigner.” Super gajin translates as super gaijin.