On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 9:18:13 PM UTC-6, Band Beyond Youall wrote:
> Wasabi <blue.mo...@org.invalid> wrote: 
> > Jim Breen <jimb...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> >> On Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 07:14:17 UTC+11, shannon... 
> > @gmail.com wrote: 
> >>> usenet is dead. 
> >>> 
> >>> Where did I read that? That place must have died, too? 
> >>> 
> >>> Parting question: Does anyone know of any website like flij in 
> > its active days? (Just looked for something like it on Mastodon, 
> > but...) 
> >>> 
> >>> Maybe I'll check back in a few months. Or years? (Unless I'm 
> > dead, too.) 
> >> 
> >> I find the "Deep in Japan" Facebook group slightly similar - 
> > gaijin sharing stories, etc. 
> >> 
> >> I miss flij, slj, etc. They were a major part of my interaction 
> > with Japan and Japanese in that distant time. 
> >> 
> >> Anyone here remember the weekend get-together in Tokyo in early 
> > 2001? ISTR we went to Yokohama and Odaiba, and had dinner together 
> > in Roppongi. 
> >> 
> >> Jim 
> > 
> > Did anyone ever get to meet Cindy? 
> > Or fly with her? ^_^ 
> >
> And who can forget Michael Cash and his gaijin trucker posts?
I wonder what happened to Mike. I assumed he'd be on Instagram, since he was a big photography person, but from time to time I search for him and nothing comes up. When I saw the book (and then show) Tokyo Vice it made me think that maybe Mike's origin story is better in some ways, because it's probably harder to become a trucker in Japan than a journalist.

John W.