Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!j35g2000prb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I was interviewed about the Tohoku disaster Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:02:42 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2cefe0cb-767f-4e50-967d-ced3cebc78fb@j35g2000prb.googlegroups.com> References: <0ed1bf6b-65e3-40f5-a470-727459d8b57e@t19g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <89700cd0-78e3-401d-937c-e04510f026a7@r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> 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 1301400162 11453 127.0.0.1 (29 Mar 2011 12:02:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:02:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j35g2000prb.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:169810 On Mar 28, 3:05=A0pm, Declan Murphy wrote: > On Mar 28, 9:06=A0pm, "John W." wrote: > > > On Mar 27, 9:41=A0pm, The 2-Belo > > wrote: > > > > They gave me the opportunity to voice observations about the event, h= owever > > > tenuous my connection to it; I obliged since I wanted to be one of th= e tiny > > > voices of relative calm in the maelstrom of people screeching about t= he 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.