Path: news.ccsf.jp!norn-news!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.unit0.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.news-service.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!postnews.google.com!t19g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I was interviewed about the Tohoku disaster Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:06:50 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <0ed1bf6b-65e3-40f5-a470-727459d8b57e@t19g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.138.0.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1301314010 9978 127.0.0.1 (28 Mar 2011 12:06:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t19g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=170.138.0.11; posting-account=d_4qMQkAAAAoC3cPt9leEr6UZXdXfvYA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0E),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169804 On Mar 27, 9:41=A0pm, The 2-Belo wrote: > > They gave me the opportunity to voice observations about the event, howev= er > tenuous my connection to it; I obliged since I wanted to be one of the ti= ny > voices of relative calm in the maelstrom of people screeching about the E= nd > Times. > After the Kobe quake I wrote a piece for my hometown rag. My grandmother was somewhat perturbed that I wrote about drinking beer on a hill overlooking the city watching the city burn. Her displeasure had little to do with the fire; as a good Southern Baptist she couldn't believe I'd public own up to drinking. John W.