Welcome!

For whatever reason, you've decided to visit my web server and me in lovely San Jose, California, which is the third-largest and first-dullest city in California.™

Wes is short for Wesley, which comes from my dad's Methodist upbringing. Kashiwagi is Japanese and translates as "oak tree," although as you'll see I'm a terminal branch on the family tree.

And, no, I am not related to the Kashiwagi family shown in Ken Burn's "The War", although my family was put into concentration camps and then robbed blind. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

Spartan-Keyes Neighborhood
I've moved into the Spartan-Keyes neighborhood in San Jose. It's home to some of the best Vietnamese and Mexican restaurants, sandwich shops, pupusarias, taquerias, and grocery stores in town, and a 10-minute commute to my old job at Pillar Data Systems. They've modified it recently. Of course, I like my version better.

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Websites designed by
Wes Kashiwagi
(I mourn the deletion of all of my Siebel websites, and Siebel for that matter; a great company lead by great execs).

Business
Saba.com
Pillardata.com
Farbest Brands
High Resolution Engineering
Light Hands Massage
Grand Prairie Texas Tourism
Anthony Buzak Furniture

San Jose Gay Community
Triangle Business Group

San Jose Gay Businesses
Renegades Bar San Jose
Macs Club San Jose

Pro Bono
Silicon Valley Webguild
DeFrank Center Website

Pleasure
Wes 330cic One-hour Website
Monterey's Gay Website
Kashiwagi.com

Webguild Design Contest
The good people who run the Webguild in San Jose have implemented my design.
See my winning entry
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Wes' 2008 DIY Osechi Experiment - Japanese New Year Food
           

Eats

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San Jose, Santa Clara, San Francisco, and even those odd cities that don't have Spanish names in California

Saigon 75
San Jose on Santa Clara near San Jose City Hall. Go there. Now. Definitely order the tempura yam with shrimp appetizer.

Vietnamese Beef Seven Ways Dinner
Yes, we tried to eat it all just between the two of us. Read about all seven lovely courses.

Hu-Chiang Dumpling House (10877 N. Wolfe Rd, Cupertino, CA 95014
(408) 873-4813
Check this place OUT! Excellent food. Kinda pricey and hard to get into, but worth it. One of my best lunches ever.

Kaiseki Dinner at Hatcho Restaurant in Santa Clara
So authentic, I have no idea what it is or how to eat it. See what happens to two sanseis who finally splurge on a kaiseki dinner More>

Cao Nguyen
Still my pick for Vietnamese food in San Jose More>

Play

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Wes and Scott Visit IML 2007 in Chicago
Everything was a B- until Monday night which was an A++ for so many reasons
Chicago gay bar reviews

Wes' Biased Ranking of Gay Bars
Chicago gay bars
Seattle gay bars
San Jose gay bars
Sacramento gay bars

Montreal gay bars

Wes' Trip to Montreal's Gay District and the Annual Fireworks Contest
Went to Montreal in June for a brief vacation. Unfortunately, the magic of French-Canadians has pretty much evaporated. Read on

What Ever Happened to Breakdancing?
A lot apparently. This video is the most amazing example of human strength and grace I've ever seen.

Triangle Business Group
The only exclusively gay and lesbian business group in San Jose, California and now pretty much just a website cum memorial to George Gonzalez (Yes, I built their site and was a member.

 

Work

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What I Do
I'm an online marketing director for an enterprise software company. I've thought about sanitizing this site to make it more "acceptable," but I'm fairly certain that would suck all of the fun and creativity out of it. There are plenty enough of those people in this world already.

My passion, however, remains the same: making this a better world using the gifts I've been given.

Where's Wes?
If it's a weeknight, I'm probably at Renegades, which is by far my favored location for having my "gay time" after work.

Every other weekend, I'm in San Francisco, probably at the Lonestar or TheEagle with my boyfriend, Scott.



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