On Mar 28, 3:05 pm, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 28, 9:06 pm, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 27, 9:41 pm, The 2-Belo <the2b...@msdREMOVETHIS.biglobe.ne.jp>
> > wrote:
>
> > > They gave me the opportunity to voice observations about the event, however
> > > tenuous my connection to it; I obliged since I wanted to be one of the tiny
> > > voices of relative calm in the maelstrom of people screeching about the End
> > > 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.
>
> Was this was the lovely drinking-Guinness-in-the-street-while-Kobe-
> burned story? I loved that one.

Yes, same one. My Austrian friend and I had an ample supply of beer
but precious little water, so after we got depressed about standing
around Sannomiya we took some onigiri and went into the wilderness, so
to speak. He still lives in Kobe; makes custom shoes.

John W.