"Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote in message 
news:ovc9t0dl85799th8f8hit8t15plmejlhkf@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:00:20 GMT, dame_zumari@yahoo.com (Louise
> Bremner) brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>
>>Kevin Wayne Williams <kww.nihongo@verizon.nut> wrote:
>>
>>> grahamthomas@grahamthomas.plus.com wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> > ... and the writer is a chap called G M Thomas.
>>>
>>> Related to Graham Thomas by any chance?
>>
>>Nah.... couldn't possibly be....
>>
>>But he's certainly enthusiastic about it: <http://tinyurl.com/56cyp>
>
> I suspected as much.
>
> I'd have some respect for him if he *openly* tried to promote his book
> like that.
>
>

Anyone in the group ever actually met this guy?  We never seem to attract 
any of the people who have bothered to write and succeeded in having 
published anything about Japan.  Or do they all secretly lurk here - I can't 
believe they would shy away from posting here or any of the other gaijin 
forums.  Or are we all THAT sad?

I do have one celebrity gaijin friend - a taiko drummer - first gaijin ever 
to be granted a visa to study and teach taiko. He's been featured in several 
TV shows - and he's also pretty handy at covering some of my classes when I 
go on holiday!  "What shall I teach them?" he asked me - "Well, bring your 
small drums one week and let everyone mess around with them.  Play UNO the 
second week!"  (Who needs an MA in TEFL when you can think up lesson plans 
like that on the spot.)

--
jonathan